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41) Prep: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In the late 1980s, for reasons even she has difficulty pinpointing, fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora leaves her middle-class, close-knit, ribald family in Indiana and enrolls at Ault, an elite co-ed boarding school in Massachusetts. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of, and ultimately a participant in, their rituals and mores, although, as a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider. By the...
43) Probably approximately correct: nature's algorithms for learning and prospering in a complex world
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
x, 195 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides a model of how effective behavior can be learned even in a world as complex as our own, shedding new light on human nature.
45) The lion's share
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ant is honored to receive an invitation to lion's annual dinner party, but is shocked when the other guests behave rudely and then accuse her of thinking only of herself.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The gripping story of one scientist in outer space, another who watches over him, the family left behind, and the lengths people will go to protect the people and planet they love Scientist Alex Welch-Peters has believed for twenty years that his super-algae can reverse the effects of climate change. His obsession with his research has jeopardized his marriage, his relationships with his kids, and his own professional future. When Sensus, the colossal...
Author
Series
Publisher
Free Spirit Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Rev. & updated [ed.].
Physical Desc
35 p. : col. ill. ; 23 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Colorful illustrations teach children positive actions that can be done with hands--saying hello, drawing, and building--but reminds them that hitting is not an appropriate behavior. Includes advice for adults.
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Several million years ago, natural selection equipped us with binary, black-and-white brains. This binary brain was highly adept at detecting risk: the ability to analyze threats and respond to changes in the sensory environment was essential to our survival as a species. Since then, the world has evolved-- but we, for the most part, haven't. Dutton shows that, while our instinct for categorization often encourages polarization, rigid thinking, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
215 p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nate's not only the star of his own comic strip--he's the star goalie of his school soccer team! Will Nate defend his goal and save the day? Or will Jefferson Middle School win...again?"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the last months of high school, charismatic eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when starts working to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"How a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor parlayed a strong grasp of the science of human decision-making and a woeful ignorance of cards into a life-changing run as a professional poker player, under the wing of a legend of the game It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel, Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of tens of millions...
56) Egg or eyeball?
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Oh! Oh, oh, oh! Look what Brain found. Chick and Spot say it is an egg. Brain says it is an eyeball. Is it an egg or an eyeball?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 10
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Based on her previous bad behavior, the Society of Cat Aptitude has determined that Kitty is not only a bad kitty but a bad cat. In order to redeem her feline status, Kitty must take an aptitude test to determine if she deserves to be a cat.
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Katie's punishment for bullying classmates includes making up for the hurt she has caused, and so she decides to write a book about bullying, why it is not okay, and how to start being a better friend.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mr. Creacher, a multi-tentacled substitute teacher, warns his prankish students not to misbehave, recounting rhyming cautionary tales of the weird, spooky, and unexpected.
Author
Series
Betty Bunny books volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm. 1 sound disc (ca 26 min):
Language
English
Description
From her first bite, young Betty Bunny likes chocolate cake so much that she claims she will marry it one day, and she has trouble learning to wait patiently until she can have her next taste.
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