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379261) First Day of Unicorn School
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Milly is incredibly excited to go to Unicorn School, a school that accepts only the best and the brightest. There's only one problem: she isn't a unicorn! She's a donkey in a party hat. Milly first feels uncomfortable but eventually learns that she and the others at the school have more in common than it might have seemed.
379263) Why Mommy Doesn't Give a ****
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Mommy is single and ready to mingle. Shocked and shaken from her divorce from Simon, but determined to make the best of it, Ellen moves to pursue her rural dream of a quirky cottage with roses around the door and chickens in the garden. However, Paxo, Oxo and Bisto turn out to be highly obstreperous and the roses have jaggy thorns. The world of internet dating beckons, with mixed results, and Ellen clashes with Jane's difficult teenage years at every...
379264) Jesse and the Elves
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Alf, Ralph, and Delph are three forgotten elves. They have been put on a shelf and feel useless and abandoned, but then Jesse walks in and everything changes!
Not just for kids, this picture book is a story for everyone who has ever felt left out.
379265) Mystère à Balabio
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En vacances à Balabio, Noah et son meilleur ami Guillaume apprennent la terrible légende de la Dame Blanche... En explorant l'îlot un jour, la pluie les oblige à se réfugier dans une grotte o ils découvrent un secret bien gardé qui mettra leur vie en danger. Qui se cache derrière tout ceci? Mystère total pour nos deux aventuriers et leur famille.
379266) The Bodyguard
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Ryan Hale, aka Replay, is the most successful running back in his high school's history. With university scouts making him offers he can't refuse, his future seems set. The problem is, Ryan would much rather go to film school. But his dad doesn't want to hear it. His teammates sure don't. He can't afford the application fees anyway. But then a solution appears when Markus, a strange exchange student with outrageous stories about mobsters and hackers,...
379267) Fat
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Obesity causes much more than physical problems. If you are obese, you've probably had trouble with:
• Self-esteem
• Confidence
• Depression
• Worrying what others think
• Social anxiety
• Motivation
Psychologists and doctors know this, but they'll never tell you what you actually need to overcome your weight problem.
As long as you follow conventional advice, your problem will get worse. You will fall into a fail-success-fail pattern....
379268) La Constitución del Campamento
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This script takes the class on a camping trip with a group of children. Realizing that they need a set of rules to govern themselves, they refer to the best example: the United States Constitution. After discovering the reasons that the Constitution was written, what it means for democracy in our country, and how it gives citizens' rights, laws, and freedoms, the children decide to create their own supreme law by making an unbreakable camping constitution....
379269) I'll Be Watching
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Shortlisted for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize. In a small prairie town like Argue, Saskatchewan, everyone knows everybody else's business. Everyone knows that the Loney family has been barely hanging on -- the father, George, reduced to drink and despair since the loss of his farm and the death of his wife, Margaret. That the four Loney children do not get along with George's second wife, the pious, bitter Effie. Then George dies...
379270) Undine
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This early work by Olive Schreiner was originally published in 1929 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Undine' is a semi-autobiographical novel about life in colonial South Africa. Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner was born on 24th March 1855 at the Wesleyan Missionary Society station at Wittebergen in the Eastern Cape, near Herschel in South Africa. In 1880, Olive set sail for the United Kingdom with the goal...
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Little Chupacabra is a picky eater with a monstrous appetite for only one thing: goats. This is a huge problem if you happen to be a goat. Set in gorgeous Puerto Rico, this delicious tale of compromise features digestible Spanish vocabulary, a menagerie of animal amigos, and one determined-and hungry-Chupacabra.
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What should we learn from Northern Lights , the first part of an initiatory trilogy? Find everything you need to know about this work in a complete and detailed analysis.
You will find in this file :
- A complete summary
- A presentation of the main characters such as Lyra Belacqua, Lord Asriel or Iorek Byrnison
- An analysis of the specificities of the work: a novel at the crossroads of genres, a complex narrative and actancial scheme, the...
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Quand les enfants Legrand découvrent une mystérieuse maison abandonnée dans leur nouveau quartier, ils sont bien décidés à mener l'enquête...
Dans les années 1960, la famille Legrand rentre d'Afrique, o elle vient de passer douze années. Elle s'installe à Jarnac, en Charente, petite ville paisible o chacun prend vite ses marques. Seulement, de l'autre cté de la rue, plane un mystère.
La maison d'en face est à l'abandon, les volets clos....
379274) Sanctum
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A locked vault. A deadly prize within.
Upon the successful completion of a risky, undercover assignment in the States, Korso, elite covert salvage operative, is contacted by his only real ally, the mysterious hacker M. D. Dog.
Tracked down by Interpol’s cybercrime unit, Dog faces life imprisonment unless they betray a client, the merciless South American crime lord Miguel Quezada, whom Interpol are convinced ordered the Guatemalan Vice President’s...
379275) Sun
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Sun, a sporty boy, reconnects with his artistic side in this gorgeous, joyful celebration of creativity that offers an expanded and appealing model for boyhood.
Sun loves everything about playing soccer: the cheers, the competition, the winning. But he feels as though something is missing. When he sees his younger brother spread out on the floor, creating a wondrous piece of art, he remembers how much he loves to make things. He goes to the beach...
379276) Berenstain Bears Get Involved
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Villancicos clásicos son perfectos para reflexionar sobre el verdadero significado de la temporada Navideña. Enséñale a los niños sobre los regalos que los tres reyes magos trajeron a Jesús. La estrella brillante era su guía al viajar sobre las montañas para ver el Salvador del mundo. "Nosotros somos los tres reyes magos de Oriente Atravesamos desde lejos con regalos. Campo y fuente, páramo y montaña, siguiendo a la estrella de allá. Belén,...
379277) The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
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Rita Joe is a Native girl who leaves the reservation for the city, only to die on skid row as a victim of white men's violence and paternalistic attitudes towards First Nations peoples. As perhaps the best-known contemporary Canadian play and a poetic drama of enormous theatrical power, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe had a major influence in awakening consciousness to the "Indian problem" both in whites and Natives themselves.
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Poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of fairytales poetically retold for a new generation of women.
Traditional fairytales are rife with cliches and gender stereotypes: beautiful, silent princesses; ugly, jealous, and bitter villainesses; girls who need rescuing; and men who take all the glory.
But in this rousing new prose and poetry collection, Nikita Gill gives Once Upon a Time a much-needed modern makeover....
379280) Hear the Wolves
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It's survival of the strongest in a contemporary, girl-versus-wild middle grade debut from Fire & Flood author Victoria Scott!
Sloan is a hunter. So she shouldn't be afraid of anything. But ever since her mom left the family and she lost hearing in one ear in a blizzard, it's been hard to talk to people, and near-impossible to go anywhere or do anything without her dad or big sister within eyesight - it makes her too scared to be on her own.When...
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