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Author
Series
Doll people volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Annabelle and Tiffany, dolls who are best friends living in the Palmer house, have an adventure when they hide in Kate Palmer's backpack, and carried to school mistakenly go to another house, and try to stop Princess Mimi, a doll who threatens to kill all dollkind.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1963]
Edition
[1st American ed.]
Physical Desc
247 p. 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Canadian biologist's assignment to study arctic wolves in 1948 turns up many unusual facts about their pattern of living, eventually softening the species' savage reputation worldwide.
Author
Series
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle volume 1
Language
English
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Description
From her upside-down house, the eccentric Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle issues to parents her marvelous cures for such common children's diseases as Won't-Put-Away-Toys-itis, Answerbackism, and Fighter-Quarrelitis.
Author
Series
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle volume 3
Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
[1954]
Physical Desc
127 p. illus. 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is back with special cures for the not truthful, the pet forgetter, the fraidy-cat, the destructive child, and the child who continually says, "I can't find it."
Author
Language
English
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From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, and from torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who must alter the environment to accommodate physical limitations, animals are adaptable to an amazing range of conditions.
Examining everything from food sources in the extremely barren winter land-scape to the chemical composition that...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
x, 353 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Do you want to know what dogs are thinking? What they're feeling? Now you finally can. The answers will surprise and delight young readers as scientist and dog-owner Alexandra Horowitz explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human."--
8) Olivia
Author
Series
Olivia books (Ian Falconer) volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Whether at home getting ready for the day, enjoying the beach, or at bedtime, Olivia is a feisty pig who has too much energy for her own good.
Author
Series
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle volume 2
Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
c1949
Physical Desc
126 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seven families are helped out by Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's magic cures when they are faced with thought-you-saiders, tattletalers, bad table manners, interrupters, heedless breakers, never-want-to-go-to-schoolers, and waddle-I-doers.
Author
Series
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle volume 4
Language
English
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Description
A woman with a magic way of curing children's bad habits tries her hand with a bully, a whisperer, and a slowpoke and formulates cures for a show-off and a crybaby.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Now in a revised and updated 6th edition, the groundbreaking, research-based approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other challenging behaviors, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the field. What's an explosive child? A child who responds to routine problems with extreme frustration--crying, screaming, swearing, kicking, hitting, biting, spitting, destroying property, and worse....
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An animal scientist draws on her experience as an autistic to identify commonalities between animals and autistics, offering insight into how animals process sensory information and how they often possess unrecognized savant-level talents.
Author
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 15 million copies sold!
Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving—every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.
If...
Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving—every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.
If...
Author
Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 5
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
71 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Junie, a spunky, sometimes exasperating, kindergartener, looks forward to winning lots of prizes at the school carnival, but a fruit cake was not exactly what she had in mind.
17) Bad kitty
Author
Series
Bad Kitty (Picture books) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a kitty discovers there is no cat food in the house, she decides to become very, very bad. From the creator of the New York Times bestseller Boing! comes the riotous story of a cat gone berserk; four times over an in alphabetical order each time. Kitty is not happy hen she's told that her favorite foods are all gone and all that's left are asparagus, beets, cauliflower, dill, and 22 other equally unappealing vegetables. So she ate my homework,...
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 5
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
120 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Best friends Ivy and Bean learn that being very good, or very bad, can be a real challenge when they set out to become like a man Ivy heard about who was so pure of heart that birds and animals followed him.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post), Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach...
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