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Pub. Date
2016.
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Español
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Buen trabajo: La vida de las plantas (Good Work: Plant Life) builds critical literacy skills with this exciting Spanish-translated nonfiction reader. Keep your students at the edge of their seats with fascinating content that will engage them from the first page to the last. Focusing on what plants need to live and thrive, this informational text features simple phrases, exact text-to-image relationships, vivid photographs, and large font to encourage...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
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Featuring TIME For Kids content, Mi fiesta de cumpleaños (My Birthday Party) teaches students the following math concepts: quantities, less than, greater than, and equal to. This Spanish text is aligned to standards and can be used in the classroom or at home. Young students will develop their math and oral language skills as they view the pictures to determine the appropriate quantities and use their own words to describe what is happening.
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English
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After being stood-up by a man she connected with at the starting line of an annual 5K "Santa Run," Susan Norcross, a successful bookstore owner in a Michigan lakeside community, is shocked when her grandparents try to help find him by authoring a social media post that goes viral.
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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-- Always, in December Sometimes it takes a stranger to bring you back to yourself. Ever since a car accident tore her family apart, Holly has been part of a lonely-hearts holiday letter–writing club. Each December, she writes to a stranger who is also spending Christmas alone, and receives a letter from another lonely person in return. Usually, the letters go unanswered. That’s the point—the letters are anonymous, and the senders write...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
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Early readers can learn how to make their very own Chinese New Year dragon in this step-by-step instructional, Spanish-translated nonfiction book. Bright, vivid photos and a glossary of required tools help introduce children to a new culture through craft-making.
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Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Feeling the chill of winter? Then grab a glass of egg nog, take a seat by the yule log, and warm yourself heart and soul with these four captivating tales of passion that make mistletoe seem so unnecessary... A Bright Red RibbonBeing dumped by your boyfriend on Christmas Eve has got to be the worst. Still, Morgan Ames promised she'd wait two Christmases for his return -- tonight -- and she always keeps her promises. But a sudden snowstorm has other...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Drawing on the myth of the Chinese zodiac, The Animals of Chinese New Year follows twelve animals as they speed across a river, competing to represent the imminent new year in a race held by the Jade Emperor, the most powerful Chinese god. Each animal competes in its own unique way. The ox works hard, the tiger is brave, the dog smiles kindly, but who will win? Bright photographs of babies demonstrating the same traits as the animals in the text,...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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When Billy's father mysteriously disappears and his mother responds by becoming more and more reclusive, Billy maintains hope that his father's absence is not by choice—despite the rumors and taunts of his classmates who believe otherwise. Twelve days before Christmas, Billy acquires a magical tree with a dozen ornaments, each of which holds a clue to finding his father. In order to do so, however, Billy must solve one puzzle each day, so he enlists...
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English
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"A heartwarming Christmas novel of romance, hope, and the comforts of home. Harry Mills is a guardian angel on a mission: help twenty-four-year-old Addie Folsom get her life back on track--and, if the right moment strikes, help her find love. Posing as a teacher at a local college in Tacoma, Washington, Harry is up to the task, but not even he can predict the surprises that lay in store. After trying to make it on her own, Addie has returned home...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Young adult novels are a great place to find characters who are a lot like you. Maybe they are new to school, are dealing with being bullied, or feel like they just don't fit in. By reading realistic fiction books, you can read about someone who is going through similar experiences. Highlighting the elements found in realistic fiction novels, this book examines the different types of internal struggles found in YA fiction. Developed by Timothy Rasinski...
34) The Kissing Game
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"I bet you a kiss you can't resist me."Game on.At six foot six, Axel Heller knows he intimidates most people. He's been crushing on the gorgeous waitress, Rena Jackson, for months. But the muscled mechanic is no romantic, and his heart is buried so deep, he has no idea how to show Rena what he feels. He knows he's way out of his depth and she's slipping away. So, he makes one crazy, desperate play…Rena is a diehard romantic, and she's had her eye...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Newly single and unemployed Kerry Tolliver needs a second chance. When she moves back home to her family's Christmas tree farm in North Carolina, she is guilt tripped into helping her brother, Murphy, sell trees in New York City. She begrudgingly agrees, but she isn't happy about sharing a trailer with her brother in the East Village for two months. Plus, it's been years, since before her parents' divorce, that she's been to the city to sell Christmas...
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
-- Franklin and Friends Franklin and his pals are excited for the Halloween party. But things get scary when everyone’s favorite turtle suspects there might be an uninvited guest: a real ghost! This spooky story is one of the original titles in the Franklin children’s book series, which features an adventurous turtle and his animal friends. Beloved by kids around the world, the series has been translated into over thirty-five languages and...
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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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-- W.E.B. Du Bois• “A Carol of Color” by -- Fanny Jackson Coppin• “Mollie’s Best Christmas Gift” by -- Lelia Plummer• “Mirama’s Christmas Test” by -- Margaret Black• “Three Men and a Woman” by -- Valena Minor Williams A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories celebrates a rich storytelling tradition and will be cherished by readers for years to come.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
Description
In this sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller The Christmas Bookshop, an American production company decides that McCredie’s is the perfect location to film a very cheesy Christmas movie and Carmen, the bookshop’s manager, uses this unexpected windfall to fend off a buyout offer from an obnoxious millionaire.
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English
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Carrie Slayton, a big-city society-page columnist, longs to write more serious news stories. So her editor hands her a challenge: She can cover any topic she wants, but only if she first scores the paper an interview with Finn Dalton, the notoriously reclusive author. Living in the remote Alaskan wilderness, Finn has written a megabestselling memoir about surviving in the wild. But he stubbornly declines to speak to anyone in the press, and no one...
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