Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
Caz cree que tiene una buena razón cuando ella golpea a su novio en la cara, pero ella es expulsada de todos modos. Se muda a una nueva escuela, se le dice que es disléxica y es enviada a clases de educación especial. Caz intenta encajar y salir adelante, mientras que sufre las burlas y el abuso que otros arrojan a los estudiantes de su clase. Su amistad con Amanda la conduce a un nuevo territorio—los hurtos y saltar clases en la escuela. Junto...
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Caz has a pretty good reason when she punches her boyfriend in the face, but she gets expelled anyway. Moving to a new school, she is told she is dyslexic and is sent to special education classes. Caz tries to fit in and get by while suffering the taunts and abuse that others throw at the students in her class. Her friendship with Amanda leads her into new territory—shoplifting and skipping school. Coupled with her parents’ impending separation,...
4) Truth
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
When an adult neighbor is brutally murdered during a high-school house party, everyone seems to know who did it, but no one will go to the police. Jen was there and saw the body, and she has her own ideas about who is responsible. As a reporter for the school TV show, she decides to try and uncover the truth and discover if a classmate’s increasingly violent behavior is to blame. When she and others begin digging too deeply, violence flares in the...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
Description
Cuando un vecino adulto es brutalmente asesinado durante una fiesta en la escuela secundaria, todo el mundo en la escuela parece tener una idea de quién lo hizo, pero nadie va a ir a la policía. Jen estaba allí y vio el cuerpo y ella tiene sus propias ideas acerca de quién es el responsable. Como reportera del show de televisión de la escuela, decide tratar de descubrir la verdad y descubrir si el comportamiento cada vez más violento de un compañero...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Mya Parsons could save the world and organize her family, if only she had her own cell phone. A Dork Diaries for today's socially conscious young readers. Mya Parsons runs her school's social justice club with her best friend, Cleo. Her lifelong desire is to work for the United Nations and change the world, and then bask in all the ensuing adulation. Her more immediate desire is to get a phone, preferably one like Cleo's, with a leopard-print...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
What would you do if you were stranded or trapped in a situation where you had to fight for your life? "When the Worst Happens" is a collection of intense, true stories set in distant corners of the earth. These action-packed accounts reveal the critical decisions that determined the fate of each victim.
10) Our green city
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A charming, child-friendly tour around an ideal sustainable city --- with a uniquely positive environmental message from award-winning author Tanya Lloyd Kyi. In this green city, neighbors take care of all living things: people, plants and animals, too! Many people choose a bicycle, scooter or their own two feet to get where they need to go. A family collects the rain to water their garden, while solar panels capture the energy from the sun; pipes...
12) Me and Banksy
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A Banksy-style protest against cameras in classrooms brings a group of middle-grade students together after someone hacks into the camera and posts students during embarrassing moments.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The online world has real dangers, but girls around the world are using social media to create positive change and practice good digital citizenship. You've probably seen media stories about the ways girls interact online, with headlines like "Depression in Girls Linked to Higher Use of Social Media," or "Half of Girls Are Bullied on Social Media." Better Connected focuses on the less-recognized and positive aspects of the online experiences of girls....
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Our brains constantly use categories to sort and label the things (and people) around us--both with good results and frightening ones. This book explores how we all use stereotypes and how science can help us to build more equal societies, where fewer stereotypes exist and minorities don't need to fight for equal rights. It offers ... hope for future equality and inclusion for all--and explains the surprising ways that science is helping us to get...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Kids 3 to 6 will be inspired to ask their own big questions after reading about the mysteries that scientists have yet to discover. This celebration of curiosity is an excellent resource for fostering an interest in STEM. Sometimes, it seems as if scientists know everything about the world. They've recorded the songs of humpback whales, dug up the bones of dinosaurs, and even tracked the storms of Jupiter. But the young scientist in this charming...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"For every kid who's tired of eating vegetables and going to bed on time, here's a book that helps them figure out how to get their own way. Examining both sides of five issues with big kid appeal (eating vegetables, bedtimes, screentime, homework, and doing chores), award-winning author Tanya Lloyd Kyi walks readers through the basics of debate skills, critical thinking and media literacy. How to pick a side, do your research, construct your argument,...
18) Emily posts
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When she is cut from her middle school's podcast crew, social media influencer wannabe Emily Laurence must find another way to spread the news of a climate march, trying to balance her impeccable manners with 21st-century activism"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A . . . look at the science of sleep [that covers] . . . why it's so important, what your body's doing while you're dreaming, what happens when you don't sleep enough, and why the science of sleep research began in a centipede-infested cave, with . . . facts about nightmares, sleepwalking, how sleep makes you smarter and much more"--