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"You gotta know the rules to play the game. Ball is life. Take it to the hoop. Soar. What can we imagine for our lives? What if we were the star players, moving and grooving through the game of life? What if we had our own rules of the game to help us get what we want, what we aspire to, what will enrich our lives? Illustrated with photographs by Thai Neave, The Playbook is intended to provide inspiration on the court of life. Each rule containswisdom...
3) Cómo fabricar a una feminista: y cómo rescatarla de la prisión de falsa libertad que se le prometió
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"Based on author Sarah Huff's extensive research and her own personal experience, How to Manufacture a Feminist offers the reader up-close and personal insight into the extreme nature of true feminism, the devastating impact it has had on society, and how to rescue today's youth from this extreme worldview"-- Provided by publisher.
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The New York Times bestselling memoir of the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village is now perfect for young readers
When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he came up with the idea that would...
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Street Noise Books
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"This book tells the true stories of five brave teens fleeing their home countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guinea, on their own, traveling through unknown and unfriendly places, and ultimately crossing into the US to find refuge and seek asylum. Based on extensive interviews with teen refugees, lawyers, caseworkers, and activists, Tracy White shines a light on five individual kids from among the tens of thousands of unaccompanied...
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2018
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During Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the '80s and '90s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. Her personal history affirms the corrosive impact intergenerational poverty can have on individuals, families, and communities. Combining memoir with powerful analysis and cultural commentary, this is an uncompromising look at class, identity, and the particular...
7) About my mother: true stories of a horse-crazy daughter and her baseball-obsessed mother : a memoir
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Peggy Rowe's story of growing up as the daughter of Thelma Knobel is filled with warmth and humor. But there's a Thelma in everyone's life. She's the person taking charge, the one who knows instinctively how things should be. Growing up, Peggy saw her mother as a benevolent, loving dictator. When major league baseball came to town in the early 1950s and turned sophisticated Thelma into a crazed Baltimore Orioles groupie, nobody was more surprised...
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March volume 1
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This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville...
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"How does a car work? Clever Cogz knows the answer! Join Cogz the robot dog and discover all about cars, trucks, and other amazing machines. Introducing physics and engineering topics in a fun and simple way, young readers will learn all about their favorite vehicles and how they work."--Back cover.
10) Telling time
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Holiday House
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[2019]
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English
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"This picture book offers explanations of how to tell time, the difference between digital and analog time and AM and PM"--
11) Australia
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Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Hello! My name is Ruby, and I'm a kid just like you living in Australia. Australia is a country filled with awesome beaches, unique animals, and exciting cities! Have you ever wondered what Australia is like? Come along with me to find out!
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Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books
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[2022]
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English
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"Want to know what happens during a Coast Guard rescue, what it's like to work on a scientific research vessel, or what's involved when crabbing in the cold waters of the North Pacific? This visually engaging book includes cross sections and exploded views showing in great detail what it's like to live and work aboard ten amazing boats."--
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A guide to the therapeutic Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing, demonstrates how it can reduce stress levels, improve the immune system, and promote health and happiness, and includes more than one hundred photographs from forests around the world.
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Larousse
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2015
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Es un libro con frases cortas y lleno de ilustraciones coloridas que fomentan la curiosidad y la práctica de la lectura. Incluye retos que son ideales para que los niños realicen actividades apoyados por los padres, lo cual genera acercamiento y convivencia entre padres e hijos. Al final del libro hay una guía para padres con consejos sobre cómo hacer efectivo el aprendizaje de los oficios en los niños. En ese mismo apartado se dan consejos para...
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Larousse
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2015
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English
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Es un libro con frases cortas y lleno de ilustraciones coloridas que fomentan la curiosidad y la práctica de la lectura. Incluye retos que son ideales para que los niños realicen actividades apoyados por los padres, lo cual genera acercamiento y convivencia entre padres e hijos. Al final del libro hay una guía para padres con consejos sobre cómo hacer efectivo el aprendizaje de los oficios en los niños. En ese mismo apartado se dan consejos para...
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National Geographic Kids
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©2017
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English
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Presents unusual facts about the holiday, including how upside-down Christmas trees can be purchased, how Sweden erects a giant straw goat for the occasion, and how mystery elves have been spotted in Michigan handing out money to strangers.
19) Real dragons
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National Geographic Kids
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©2018
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English
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"Find out about dragon-like critters in this new Co-reader from National Geographic Kids. Co-readers provide one page of adult-read-aloud text and one page of kid-read-aloud text on each spread, building toward a collaborative reading experience. Think dragons exist only in fairy tales? Think again! Meet huge komodo dragons, flying lizards, and all sorts of amazing creatures that really are stranger than fiction. Adult and child readers will learn...
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"From the #1 bestselling sensation and Netflix star comes her guide to designing not just the home-but the life-of your dreams, fully illustrated with more than 200 photographs from inside the Marie Kondo lifestyle"--
Kondo encourages you to visualize your ideal life, from the moment you wake up until the end of each day. This mental picture becomes a touchpoint for helping you make conscious, mindful choices: from how you use every corner of your...
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