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Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After losing his dog Sparky, scientist Victor Frankenstein uses the power of lightning to bring his beloved pet back to life, but when others learn about Victor's scientific feat, they want him to reanimate their pets as well.
Author
Publisher
Lil' Libros, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Beautifully illustrated with the gifted colors of Mother Earth, introduce little ones to the hardship and tireless days of a farm worker - in English and Spanish! From dawn to dusk, through sunshine, rainfall, and everything in between, he works his smooth hands until they crack. He harvests plenty of gifts for everyone to enjoy in hope of a brighter future for his own-he is the backbone of our country. Beautifully illustrated with the gifted colors...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Pedro Martin's grown up in the U.S. hearing stories about his legendary abuelito, but during a family road trip to Mexico, he connects with his grandfather and learns more about his own Mexican identity in this moving and hilarious graphic memoir"--
Author
Publisher
HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In this pathbreaking guide, two of the world's most popular and trusted pet care advocates reveal new science to teach us how to delay aging and provide a long, happy, healthy life for our canine companions.
Like their human counterparts, dogs have been getting sicker and dying prematurely over the past few decades. Why? Scientists are beginning to understand that the chronic diseases afflicting humans-cancer, obesity, diabetes, organ degeneration,...
6) Unicycle dad
Author
Publisher
Amicus Ink
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sarah compares her family's life with a single father to riding a unicycle, a balancing act that is sometimes difficult but also filled with joy and love.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A kinder, funner usage guide to the ever-changing English language and a useful tool for both the grammar stickler and the more colloquial user of English, from linguist and veteran professor Anne Curzan. Our use of language naturally evolves and is a living, breathing thing that reflects who we are. Says Who? offers clear, nuanced guidance that goes beyond "right" and "wrong" to empower us to make informed language choices. Never snooty or scoldy...
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In this delightful blend of nonfiction and inspirational humor, readers will encounter a small forest of facts and learn a few life lessons from our foliaged friends, who show how their interconnected community collaborates, shares resources, warns of threats, and thrives together.
9) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In [this book], social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Join author-illustrator Cara Bean as she takes readers on an illustrated journey to the center of the brain. Each chapter explores a different aspect of mental health, from the brain and the mind, to feelings and emotions. By portraying complex neuroscience concepts with a cast of illustrated brain part characters, the book explains what is really going on in the reader's head in an accessible, approachable way that ultimately serves to empower the...
Author
Series
Chronicles of the Yellowstone Wolves volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Newly reintroduced along with his pack to Yellowstone National Park, Wolf 8 struggles at first. Small and often bullied by his siblings, he must learn to fend for himself in his new home. Soon enough, though, little 8 grows into one of Yellowstone?s greatest leaders"--
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Instant New York Times Bestseller!
This "celebration of the world of books" (Kirkus) is "a real page turner!" (Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan) that "feels like a love letter" (USA Today) to booksellers and librarians—as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James Patterson.
To be a bookseller or librarian...
You have to play detective.
Be a treasure hunter....
This "celebration of the world of books" (Kirkus) is "a real page turner!" (Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan) that "feels like a love letter" (USA Today) to booksellers and librarians—as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James Patterson.
To be a bookseller or librarian...
You have to play detective.
Be a treasure hunter....
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Kristine S. Ervin was just eight years old when her mother, Kathy Sue Engle, was abducted from an Oklahoma mall parking lot and violently murdered in an oil field. First, there was grief. Then the desire to know: what happened to her, what she felt in her last terrible moments, and all she was before these acts of violence defined her life. In her mother's absence, Ervin tries to reconstruct a woman she can never fully grasp-from her own memory,...
15) Komodo dragons
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Kids
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes what Komodo dragons look like, where they live, and what they eat, with large color photographs, more facts, and glossary terms.
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"You'll never forget elephants! With their massive size, floppy ears, twisting trunks, and long tusks, elephants have so much to love! And the more you get to know them--about their clever minds and caring hearts--the more you realize humans and elephants have a lot in common!"--Back cover.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, the British national psyche and global politics has shifted over time, as has the interpretation of the life of his author. But Fleming himself was more mysterious and subtle than anything he wrote. Ian's childhood with his gifted brother Peter and his extraordinary mother set the pattern for his ambition...
19) All charged up!
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From phones to lightbulbs to electric cars, electricity is something we can't live without! Breaking down concepts like atoms, current, and magnetism, acclaimed author-illustrator Don Brown demonstrates how our world became connected by electricity. Brown highlights key inventors and scientific breakthroughs, including Benjamin Franklin's famous experiment using a kite as a lightning rod (don't try it at home!), the dramatic rivalry behind the creation...
Author
Language
English
Description
Parenting is about to get easier—and a whole lot more effective....
In a time when so many children and young adults seem to be struggling, parents are looking for help in bringing up mentally healthy kids who are equipped to thrive. Finally, evidence-based help is now available for overwhelmed parents who are trying their best but feel like they're falling short.
#1 New York Times bestselling author and neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel...
In a time when so many children and young adults seem to be struggling, parents are looking for help in bringing up mentally healthy kids who are equipped to thrive. Finally, evidence-based help is now available for overwhelmed parents who are trying their best but feel like they're falling short.
#1 New York Times bestselling author and neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel...
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