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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Several months after the tragic events set in motion by bully Betty Glengarry, Annabelle McBride is struck by lightning during a powerful summer storm, leaving her with heightened senses that give her a new understanding of animals and help her learn about compassion and forgiveness.
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (1080 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + part I guidebook (ii, 72 p. ; 22 cm.) + part II guidebook (ii, 74 p. ; 22 cm.) + part III guidebook (ii, 69 p. ; 22 cm.)
Language
English
Description
In the period 1700-1900, kings and empires rose and fell, but science conquered all, taking the world by storm. Yet, as the 1700s began, the mysteries of the universe were pondered by "natural philosophers" whose explanations couldn't help but be influenced by religious thought, and political and social contexts shaping their world. The ideas of the Enlightenment were especially important and influential, and the work of these natural philosophers...
Author
Publisher
Wattpad Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Wattpad Books edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer of 1955. For Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his white father, race has always been a distant conversation. When he's sent to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in small-town Alabama, his blackness is suddenly front and center, and no one is shy about making it known he's not welcome there. Enter Juniper Jones. The town's resident free spirit, she's everything the townspeople aren't--open, kind, and accepting"--Back...
Author
Language
English
Description
Majestic, informative and often delightful ... insights on every page' Yanis Varoufakis, Observer The definitive history of the Great Financial Crisis, from the acclaimed author of The Deluge and The Wages of Destruction. In September 2008 the Great Financial Crisis, triggered by the collapse of Lehman brothers, shook the world. A decade later its spectre still haunts us. As the appalling scope and scale of the crash was revealed, the financial institutions...
7) For Lamb
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north- if only he could curb...
Author
Publisher
Praeger
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xliii, 226 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Therapist Densmore takes us with her as she works in a remarkable program she has developed to lead such children into the social world. Allowing readers to look over her shoulder during sessions, Densmore explains Narrative Play, her approach to inspiring social contact. The work includes interviews with parents of children with autism and will be of wide interest to professionals, teachers, parents, and family members who can use the approach to...
Author
Series
Saint Young Men volume 9
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]-
Edition
Kodansha Comics edition.
Physical Desc
volumes (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jesus, the Son of God. Buddha, the enlightened one. Two of history's most important figures whose sagely deeds have been told and retold. After a few millennia of helping humanity, they have decided to take some time off and rent an apartment together in modern-day Tokyo. But even their saintly status hasn't fully prepared them to navigate the ups and downs of life in 21st century Japan, from theme parks, to shopping for rice cookers, to the...
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
10 DVDs (1800 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 336 p. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
The "Long Debate" on the nature of truth, the scale of real values, the life one should aspire to live, the character of justice, the sources of law, and the terms of civic and political life is encompassed by the name philosophy. Three persistent themes--understood as problems--are knowledge, conduct, and governance, on which there is a storehouse of insights, some so utterly persuasive as to have shaped thought itself. Beginning with Plato and...
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