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This lovable band of animal friends with fun-loving wholesome spirits lead you and your children through a wealth of original stories by beloved storyteller, V. Gilbert Beers. You children will delight in the festive illustrations and be captivated by over 50 stories about forgiveness, helpfulness, working together, sharing, pride, friendship, honesty, courage and a host of other positive character traits. You will be thrilled by the fun your children...
7482) Healthy Friendships
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This title looks at the ups-and-downs of friendship, including making new friends and saying goodbye to old ones. It offers helpful suggestions on what makes a true friend and how to be one yourself. Features include an, ask the expert section, tips on being healthy, a glossary, additional resources, and an index.
7483) Your Constant Star
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Faye is the "good" adopted Chinese daughter. Bev is the wild child. Mannie is the unambitious stoner. What brings them together-and tears them apart-is a need to move beyond the clichés and commit to something-anything-that will bring meaning and joy to their lives.
When Faye's long-lost childhood neighbor, Bev, turns up out of the blue, wanting something from her old friend, Faye goes along with Bev's plan. But Mannie, the joyriding daddy of Bev's...
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Gracie is a serious, sensitive, aspiring writer, Jannie, her autistic younger sister, is passionate about birds. As children, they were taken by their mother on a senseless trip through Europe that ended in their mother's suicide. Now, in Berkeley, their father works tirelessly to find ways to engage Jannie, while Gracie-unwilling to reveal the truth about her mother's suicide or her sister's autism to anyone outside her family-weaves a web of lies...
7485) The Quality Street Girls
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A delicious and heartwarming novel featuring the girls working at the nation's favorite wrapped chocolate factory.
A seasonal delight, inspired by the true story of the Quality Street factory.
At sixteen years old, Irene 'Reenie' Calder is delighted to land a seasonal job at Mackintosh's Quality Street factory but trouble seems to follow her around and it isn't long before she falls foul of the strict rules.
Diana Moore runs the Toffee Penny...
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Un libro sobre probar cosas nuevas.
El Pequeño Jack Bones es un potrillo curioso. Cuando ve a unos venados hacer una acrobacia divertida, Jack quiere intentarlo también. Sus amigos le advierten de que es demasiado pequeño, pero Jack no les hace caso. Al final, el Pequeño Jack Bones se da cuenta de que probar cosas nuevas es importante, aunque al principio no tengamos éxito.
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From one of Japan's rising literary stars, two mesmerizing novellas told with stylistic inventiveness and breathtaking sensitivity about memory, loss, and love.
Touring the Land of the Dead tells the story of Taichi, who was forced to stop working almost a decade ago and since then he and his wife Natsuko have been getting by on her part-time wages. But Natsuko is a woman accustomed to hardship. When her own family's fortune dried up for years during...
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Searching for relics. Discovering meaning.
When a sheet of metal is uncovered beneath the Martian sands, archaeologist Jack Carter is given a rare opportunity to travel to the red planet and the chance to make a discovery unlike any other in history.
But with the beautiful and mysterious Gemma at his side, there's more on Mars for Jack to discover than old relics. Far from the comfort of the world he loves, there's a chance of finding happiness...
7489) A Change of Plan
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Two down-on-their-luck cowboys decide their lives need a change of plan.
7490) Tell Me Everything
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Your secret's safe...until it's not.
Ivy's always preferred to lay low, unlike her best friend Harold, who has taken up a hundred activities as sophomore year begins. But Ivy has her own distraction: the new anonymous art-sharing app, VEIL.
Being on the sidelines has made Ivy a skilled observer, and soon she discovers that some of the anonymous posters are actually her classmates. While she's still too scared to put her own creations on the app,...
7491) Claire Braids May's Tail
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Claire helps get her horse May ready for a show. This B-level story uses decodable text to raise confidence in early readers. The book features long "a" sounds and uses a combination of sight words and long-vowel words in repetition to build recognition. Original illustrations help guide readers through the text. Author Cecilia Minden, Ph.D., a literacy consultant and former director of the Language and Literacy program at Harvard Graduate School...
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She doesn't just love doodling, she needs it...
In Stuck in the Middle (of Middle School) by Karen Romano Young, moving is tough. Being the new kid in school is even tougher. But, the hardest thing of all about the move that Doreen "Dodo" Bussey's family is making is that she suspects it might be because of her. She got into trouble at her last school.
On the drive to their new home, her mother gives Dodo a blank notebook, which she uses to...
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Black Goat and Yellow Dog live together in the country and they regularly have grand adventures.
In The Adventures of Black Goat and Yellow Dog, Maggie the Magpie challenges Black Goat to meet the Bear who lives down the road. Maggie knows Black Goat is afraid of everything.
Black Goat has a best friend, Yellow Dog, who not only joins him on adventures, but is also a steady force in his life. When Maggie challenges Black Goat, he is afraid but knows...
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'Well Well Well!!! What a little gem this was. The Modern Woman's Guide to Finding a Knight is a romance of old. I was charmed all the way as Connie and Dom found their own sweet HEA.' - Goodreads review
All's Faire in love and war...
Connie leads a double life. During the week, she is an up–and–coming designer and dressmaker, creating sleek, elegant gowns for the wealthy elite. But come the weekend, Connie becomes Lady Constance, a member...
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A read-short and sweet, that journeys the full depth of what friendships have the potential to become. This writing is a celebration of life and true friendship; we are all, invited to share in the toast. A youthful writer discovers, in the life story of an older lady, the artisan creation of vintage wine. The woman with red hair and blue eyes becomes a friend to the young man, and he recognizes in her a pouring of grace into the lives of others,...
7496) Jewel of the Galaxy
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This is it. The mission to end all missions. Judy is finally fixed, and she is ready to take the rest of the Star Belchers on the biggest adventure of their lives! Following a treasure map, the crew travels to both new and familiar places. But the treasure waiting for them might not be what they had in mind.
7497) Signal
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One day while running on the trail near his house in upstate New York, Owen McGuire meets a girl with startling green eyes and bloody cuts all over her body who seems to be utterly alone. Her name is Campion, after the wildflower that is an alien species in the area-alien meaning "from someplace else"-and Campion claims to come from someplace else entirely, a planet called Home. She plans to signal her parents to come pick her up in their spaceship....
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Horse and Zebra are best friends, but they couldn't be more different! While Horse is steady and sensible, Zebra is zany and creative. But what they have in common is that they will always look out for each other, and they're always ready to help another animal in need.
Horse's friend Sheepdog needs someone to watch her puppies while she goes to a sheepherding competition. Horse and Zebra volunteer for the task and soon realize the need to balance...
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Charlie has a new helper on her bus, her free-spirited and loveable cousin, Delilah, who's paid a visit to the charming Cornish village of Porthgolow and is helping out on Charlie's adorable cream tea bus.
When the Director of a new TV series filming further along the coast tells Delilah that the bus would be the perfect addition to their onsite catering, she takes him a bit too literally. Charlie and Delilah find themselves caught up in the filming...
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