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Watch critical thinking IGNITE when you join Rudy and Richie on exciting adventures. The first of its kind, the Root Word Rudy series of books explores root words that readers of all ages will use for a lifetime in the fun and exciting style of an actual picture book! Latin and Greek Root Words are the building blocks of so much of our English language. The more roots you know, the better your spelling, comprehension and vocabulary will be.
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" 'What if you were the one?' With those words Arabella España is lured into a tale of forbidden love and forgotten secrets. In the wake of a murder in 1950's Puerto Rico, Nationalists revolt against American colonialism. An amnesiac recluse married to a man she does not love, Arabella seeks solace in the only remaining book in her possession, one of many banned by Puerto Rico's Gag Law. The mysterious novel entitled The Last Love Letter by Aurelio...
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This is Eden? is a historical fiction about the life of Hattie and John Burley and their six strong-willed children in the early twentieth century. As it begins they are living in a two story wooden structure in Chicago. John is a bit of a dreamer who works for a dairy but feels led to pastor a church. He sees his opportunity in the Chicago Tribune: The Soo Line Railroad advertises land he can afford in north/central Wisconsin. He packs up his family...
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"In a 1941 Nazi roundup of educated Poles, Stefan Budziaszek--newly graduated from medical school in Krakow--was incarcerated in the Krakow Montelupich Prison and transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp in February 1942. German big businesses brutally exploited the cheap labor of prisoners in the camp, and workers were dying. In 1943, Stefan, now a functionary prisoner, was put in charge of the on-site prisoner hospital, which at the time...
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"Meet Oscar, a little shopping cart, with a BIG problem...a broken wheel...and broken means the junk heap! A metal sandwich is not in his game plan! Follow him as he plots an escape and sets out to claim his place in the world. Based on the award-winning short film, The Go Cart, Oscar is a story about finding a new life and the friends who help you get there."--Back cover.
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As a child, Solono suffers through a tragic event and has to quickly adjust to his new life --being raised by the President of Paraguay. Even with the responsibilities of running an anguished country and caring for his own wife and daughter, President Louis Silvay adopts Solono as his own and treats him with genuine love, teaching him as any committed father would. After being raised in royalty, filled with love and compassion, Solono learns the truth...
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