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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
Series
Clementine volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Eight-year-old Clementine, convinced that she has no talents, tries to find a way to avoid participating in the class talent show.
Author
Language
English
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Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
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Language
English
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For popular high school senior Samantha Kingston, February 12 - "Cupid Day" - should be one big party, a day of valentines and roses and the privileges that come with being at the top of the social pyramid. And it is...until she dies in a terrible accident that night. However, she still wakes up the next morning. In fact, Sam lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
ix, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brilliantly exploring today's cutting-edge brain research, mind wide open is an unprecedented journey into the essence of human personality, allowing readers to understand themselves and the people in their lives as never before. Using a mix of experiential reportage, personal storytelling, and fresh scientific discovery, Steven Johnson describes how the brain works - its chemicals, structures, and subroutines - and how these systems connect to the...
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Washington Square Press trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 465 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A series of tragedies, including the death of her baby brother, her parent's divorce, her mother's nervous breakdown, and her own rape at the age of thirteen, leaves Dolores Price wounded both mentally and physically, but she miraculously finds the strength to give herself one more chance at life and love.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Weston Woods
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (approximately 7 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (approximately 28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Despite her scabby knees and dirty fingernails, Geraldine knows that she is a princess inside and shows it through her behavior at home and in school.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Description
In this skillfully told novel by the author of The Bean Trees, a young woman returns to her hometown to care for her father and, without knowing it, herself. As usual, Codi is seeking to avoid life, but instead she finds plenty of it. She begins a complicated romance with a former boyfriend, corresponds with her sister, Hallie, who is kidnapped and then murdered in Nicaragua, tries to convince her father that his declining mental abilities are interfering...
12) Peaces
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The prize-winning, bestselling author of Gingerbread; Boy, Snow, Bird; and What is Not Yours is Not Yours returns with a vivid and inventive new novel about a couple forever changed by an unusual train voyage. When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment - and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train...
13) 10,000 dresses
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volumes (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bailey longs to wear the beautiful dresses of her dreams but is ridiculed by her unsympathetic family which rejects her true perception of herself.
15) Boy A
Series
Miriam collection volume 9
Publisher
distributed by Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fresh out of a 14-year prison sentence, 24-year-old Jack is looking for a new start. Guided by his caseworker, he attempts to start a new life. But what happiness he finds is challenged when his true identity seeps through the cracks of his new facade.
Author
Series
Publisher
Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Patiently forthcoming with lessons your parents redacted, this necessary conversation stresses consent, sex positivity, and the right to be curious about your body. The dialogue focuses on the dynamics of sex, rather than the mechanics, as Grandma reminds readers that sex is not marriage or reproduction, and doesn't look the same for everyone. Instead, each person's sexuality is their very own to discover, explore, and share if they choose. Anastasia...
17) Why?
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Would-be supervillain Doctor X-Ray swoops into the mall, threatening destruction, only to be confronted by a little girl asking "why" to his every declaration, until finally he is forced to reveal, and understand, the root of his anger--and so departs in peace.
18) Good different
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventh-grader Selah Godfrey knows that to be "normal" she has to keep her feelings tightly controlled when people are around, but after hitting a fellow student, she needs to figure out just what makes her different--and why that is ok. Told in verse.
Author
Series
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[34] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Charlie, the smallest child in his first grade class, is amazed to discover that of the three pumpkins his teacher brings to school, the tiniest one has the most seeds.
20) Women in clothes
Publisher
Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
515 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the questions we ask ourselves while getting dressed every day, and the answers from more than six hundred women"--From back cover.
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