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482) Ethic: Book 5
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Life has never been easy for Ethic. Since he was a young boy he has battled loss after loss while struggling to navigate through a treacherous world. When he met Alani Lenika Hill he knew that he had met the woman who would love him back to life. They have weathered a storm together and their love is no fated that neither ever want to let it go, but it seems their bubble of happiness is an illusion becuase life around them is falling apart. When Morgan...
483) First date
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"Lola Jones is going on her first date with C.J Kline, the star point guard of the Washington Warcats basketball team. But can they keep their plans secret from Lola's big brother and C.J's best friend? Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards"--Publisher's website.
486) Everyone gets a turn
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When the precious little egg they found in the woods hatches, four animal friends--Bear, Hare, Turtle and Mouse--take turns caring for the newborn chick, in this heartwarming celebration of friendship, resourcefulness, trust and the power of community.
489) Topito terremoto
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Cuando Topito se despierta...¡se acaba la calma! Arriba y abajo, lo toca todo. Se distrae. Pierde las cosas. No para quieto ni un segundo. Le dicen que es: inquieto, hiperactivo, nervioso, pesado, impulsivo... Sus padres están preocupados. Sus profes, desesperados. Y ahora, además, tiene que presentar un trabajo de fin de curso...
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"Sera does not always like being at home, where her dad's anger feels like the strongest thing. School feels better. But when Sera gets into an argument with a friend and finds herself acting like the bully at home, she discovers the strongest thing is not loud or angry at all."--
492) Sonny says no!
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Sonny is so busy painting that when his friends ask for help, he quickly says, "No!," but when he realizes what he is missing, he must find a way to make things right.
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When Penelope Crumb becomes jealous because her best friend Patsy spends too much time with another girl in the class, she fears she'll lose her friend forever and so steals Patsy's necklace to start a secret museum to remember all the people she cares about. When her Grandpa calls the police because Penelope took his camera, she ends up with nothing and must come up with some way to make her personal museum that doesn't involve stealing.
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"The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba-the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age-is being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he is convalescing, his friends and family visit him, and other patients and nurses drift in and out of his room. Against this dispiriting backdrop, everyone tries to maintain a lighthearted, even clownish atmosphere: playing cards, smoking cigarettes, vying for attention, cracking...
495) Riding lessons
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When Ellen meets Ned, a beautiful colt who hurt his leg on his way to becoming a racehorse, she becomes determined to behave at school and at home so she can have more time at the ranch.
496) Anonymouse
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"An anonymous artist transforms the city through graffiti, inspiring other urban critters to get creative with their own surroundings."--
498) Amor
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Si hay alguien capaz de describir con maestría, personalidad y humor la naturaleza caprichosa del amor, es Isabel Allende. Esta recopilación de escenas de amor, seleccionadas de entre sus libros, es una invitación a sumergirse en la lectura, soñar y sonreír. La gran narradora chilena escribe abiertamente, haciendo un guiño a sus lectores, sobre sus experiencias en el sexo y el amor.
The noted Chilean author presents excerpts from her fiction...
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Third-grader Azaleah Lane has been chosen STEM lab monitor for the week, but on her first day Harry the lab guinea pig gets out of his cage and escapes, and Azaleah has to figure out a strategy to locate where in the room he is hiding and catch him; but she also has another problem--how to get Terrance to listen to Rose, Jamal, and herself and work with the group on their Rube Goldberg machine project.