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Pub. Date
2022
Description
"A graphic memoir for teens about the author's efforts to overcome her social anxiety by learning improv comedy. Alex has crippling social anxiety. All day long, she is trapped in a web of negative thoughts and paralyzing fear. To pull herself free of this endless cycle, Alex does something truly terrifying: she signs up for an improv comedy class. By forcing herself to play silly games and act out ridiculous scenes, Alex confronts the unbearable...
Author
Series
Amelia rules! volume 4
Pub. Date
[2018?], c2008
Description
"Amelia McBride is going to her first dance (with a boy!), but it seems she's not the only one with a date. Is Amelia ready to accept that her mom might be seeing someone? And what can she say to help her friend Joan, whose dad is going off on a dangerous mission for his job in the military?"--Jacket.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Teased for his fair coloring, eleven-year-old Jimmy McClean travels with his maternal grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, to learn about his Lakota heritage while visiting places significant in the life of Crazy Horse, the nineteenth-century Lakota leader and warrior, in a tale that weaves the past with the present. Includes historical note and glossary.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Shiva's aunt has come to the Outside to bring her home, with several soldiers in tow. Alarmed at this show of force, Teacher tries to protect Shiva, but to no avail. Meanwhile, chaos threatens to engulf the small hamlet on the Inside. Where does Shiva truly belong?--
77168) Hyde & Shriek
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Frank and Joe are called in to keep murder off the menu at Manhattan's mysterious Jekyll and Hyde Club while a Sweet Sixteen party is talking place for the daughter of the Ambassador to Osyria.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran presents an impassioned tribute to the importance of fiction to democracy that blends memoir with close readings of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Babbitt and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
"A passionate hymn to the power of fiction to change people's lives, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"This book has practical steps to guide girls as they learn about the amazing changes happening in their bodies during puberty and beyond! The Period Comic offers encouraging support while answering real questions that girls have about puberty. Positive, judgment-free, and medically accurate, this book discusses puberty in a way that young girls can relate to." --
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"An immigrant boy stands 'in the middle of a whirlwind of children,' and wonders where he is supposed to go. Finally, a woman speaks to him in a language he doesn't understand and takes him to his classroom. A boy named Carlos helps orient him, but later when he reads aloud, everyone laughs at him. And when he gets an 'F' on an assignment, he is sure 'I do not belong here.' But gradually the boy begins to learn English. He works hard. He always pays...
77172) Lego chain reactions
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Features ten different wacky chain reaction machines that can be made with elements supplied and LEGO bricks from your collection.
77173) Birds from head to tail
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Guess which bird each colorful close-up belongs to, then turn the page for the answer and some fascinating facts about that animal. Two final pages add to the fun with a quick look at other extraordinary birds and their interesting body parts - from the tops of their heads to the tips of their tail feathers."--Page [2] of cover.
77174) Biscuit: more phonics fun
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Presents a twelve book set that uses tales about Biscuit the puppy to teach reading, featuring simple stories, long vowel sounds, and sight words.
77176) Oedipus: trapped by destiny
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Oedipus is born to a terrible fate. Can he escape it to save himself and his family? An oracle makes a ghastly prediction: the young prince will kill his father and marry his mother. Horrified, King Laius decides to kill his infant son before he can ever grow up to fulfill that prophecy. But destiny can't be avoided so easily. That child is Oedipus, who lives to lead a country. Discover his true family, and see how his own rash actions have only furthered...
77178) The three little pigs
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1990
Description
Relates the adventures of three little pigs who leave home to seek their fortunes and how they deal with the big bad wolf. At various points in the text the reader is asked to state what is missing from the picture.
77179) Comic adventures of Boots
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Three comic adventures starring a cat named Boots: Operation Fish Biscuit, Pleased to Meet you, Madam Quark and Let's Play a Guessing Game.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
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"Hum of Our Blood peels back time to the dawning days of the AIDS pandemic when the world seemed to be standing at the edge of a foreboding precipice. In an exploration that is both personal and universal, Garner's poems expose the best and worst of humanity at times of peril. With language that cuts straight to the nature of grief as the author watches her beloved son's body dying, Hum of Our Blood also stands as a love song to those, then or now,...