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Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
Author
Pub. Date
c1968
Language
English
Description
During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.
5) El Deafo
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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JF Once Upon A Summer Reading
Description
The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower."
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
"Con cinco años, Hannah Pick-Goslar huyó con su familia a Ámsterdam para escapar de la Alemania nazi. El primer día de cole allí, entabló amistad con una niña extrovertida y avispada llamada Anne Frank. Durante unos años maravillosos las dos fueron inseparables y disfrutaron de tranquilas fiestas de pijamas y juegos infantiles en el barrio de Rivierenbuurt. Sin embargo, un día de 1942 las vidas de ambas cambiaron para siempre. La ocupación...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"As youth are first learning about both the outside world and form identities, the online world suggests answers that may or may not be right for them. Teachers and parents can help kids become aware of these forces that influence kids online, from peers in social apps to influencers in videos. Just as they learn to consider the nutritional value of food choices, The Social Media Diet empowers youth to do the same for online messaging served to their...
8) Best friends
Author
Series
Friends (Hale) volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
When she becomes part of the in-crowd, Shannon begins to question whether she wants to remain there, in this autobiographical graphic novel about popularity, first boyfriends, and finding a path in life.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author and news anchor Raymond Arroyo comes a picture book biography of one of America's most famous inventors, Thomas Alva Edison, and a story about how a small spark can create a big light. No one thought much of young Thomas Alva Edison. He couldn't focus at school and caused trouble around the house. But where others saw a distracted and mischievous boy, his mother saw imagination and curiosity. When he was only...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"A través de la conversación entre Oprah Winfrey y el Dr. Perry, en este libro descubrirás cómo lo que nos sucede en la primera infancia tiene una gran influencia sobre la persona adulta en que nos convertimos. También comprenderás que las adversidades que experimentamos impactan en nuestra salud física y emocional y qué dice la ciencia sobre los patrones de comportamiento que nos cuesta tanto entender. Este libro te ofrece una nueva perspectiva...
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