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Life lessons from the soccer field, from the bestselling author of Strong is the New Pretty. A bruised shin, a bloody nose. Racing across the field into the arms of your teammates. Leaping high to save a goal. Getting up at dawn to kick ball after ball into the net. Making friends for life. Teaching your younger sister how to dribble. Sharing cupcakes at practice on your birthday. Going to sleep in your jersey. That's what it means to be fearless,...
1542) Save our squad, Gaby
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Team cheer volume 7
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Although they are graduating, Gaby Fuller and her friends are shocked to learn that, due to budget cuts, the Greenview cheerleading squad will be disbanded, and they organize a protest to try and get the decision reversed.
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In this acclaimed memoir, Mezlekia recalls his boyhood in the arid city of Jijiga, Ethiopia, and his journey to manhood during the 1970s and 1980s. He traces his personal evolution from child to soldier--forced at the age of eighteen to join a guerrilla army. And he describes the hardships that consumed Ethiopia after the fall of Emperor Haile Selassie and the rise to power of the communist junta, in whose terror thousands of Ethiopians died. Part...
1545) All stars
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Two kids throw an ambitious dance show in order to save their struggling youth center.
1547) Ludwig van Beethoven
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Short text, illustrations and recorded music tell the story of Beethoven's childhood musical experiences. Children are encouraged to experience and think about music in their own life. Suggested level: junior, primary.
1548) Gardens of the night
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A young girl is kidnapped and spends the next seven years living a life full of torture and horror at the hands of her abductors, with the only person she can rely on being a boy who was also abducted. When they are abandoned, they have only each other to lean on as they brave the harsh San Diego streets. Includes commentary, documentary, alternate ending, and more.
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"Are you frustrated by your teen’s lack of interest in education and their future? Do you find yourself getting upset with an education system that seems like it’s not doing enough to help them? Learn about a new movement that is helping adolescents ignite their passion for life from within and achieve their full potential. Motivating Adolescents introduces the EMERGING process, which draws on the wisdom of philosophers and social reformers,...
1550) The making of a writer
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The author recalls events from her childhood that contributed to her development as a writer.
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With the explosion of communication devices tied to the Internet, teens need guidance in healthy online participation more than ever. One key requirement for digital literacy is learning to manage one's "digital footprint." This book raises readers' awareness of the array of information they can leave behind when using technology and the Web. The book empowers teens to behave in ways that protect their physical and psychological health; identities...
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"Consummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at times extremely funny memoir of a Newfoundland boyhood few thought he would survive, including him. For six months between 1966 and 1967, Wayne Johnston and his family lived in a wreck of a house across from his grandparents in Goulds, Newfoundland, which was not so much a place as a scattering of houses along an unpaved road....
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"Serious Little Catholics follows Kathy Gereau, the oldest of seven children, as she grows up in the mid-'50s and '60s and makes her way through Catholic school alongside her siblings. Initially, she buys into the mysteries of faith and the litany of rules being spouted by the Sisters of Mercy. But when her fourth grade teacher tells the class that Kathy's sweet little Protestant grandmother would never be admitted into heaven, she begins to question...
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In this poignant book, a renowned historian tells of his youth as an assimilated, anti-religious Jew in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939-"the story," says Peter Gay, "of a poisoning and how I dealt with it." With his customary eloquence and analytic acumen, Gay describes his family, the life they led, and the reasons they did not emigrate sooner, and he explores his own ambivalent feelings-then and now-toward Germany its people.
Gay relates that the...
1556) Insect study
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Outlines requirements for pursuing a merit badge in insect study including characteristics and differences of insects from other animals, explains different collection techniques, and tells how insects fit in the food chains of other animals.
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The ... continuation of Riad Sattouf's ... disquieting yet essential read. In The Arab of the Future: Volume 1, cartoonist Riad Sattouf tells of the first years of his childhood as his family shuttles back and forth between France and the Middle East. In Libya and Syria, young Riad is exposed to the dismal reality of a life where food is scarce, children kill dogs for sport, and his cousins, virulently anti-Semitic and convinced he is Jewish because...
1559) Angel Rodriguez
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The relationship between a school counselor and a troubled inner-city teen who acts out by stealing, fighting with his seemingly uncaring father, and undermining every opportunity he is given. His advisor tries to figure out how to save him from himself.
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