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Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
7 books, 1 welcome letter and 1 Early Literacy Guide in a blue vinyl folder, in a clear vinyl tote with luggage tag
Language
English
Description
The World of Stories project consists of over 30 kits that each explore a different theme about the things that make us special and unique. Each kit contains up to seven books that center around topics such as race and ethnicity, culture and heritage, religion, orientation, family structure, immigration and more. Plus, every kit includes helpful early literacy tips and activities for you to practice at home with your child to help them get ready to...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages : black ands white illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Weaving her family narrative into the larger story of twentieth-century art and culture, Selz paints [a] ... portrait of her charismatic father--the chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art and director of his own art museum in California]-- ... the generation of modern artists he championed, and the daughter whose life he shaped"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in America. In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawing on folk tales, he keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award-winning...
1084) Cook it! =: ¡A cocinar
Series
Publisher
Child's Play (International) Ltd
Pub. Date
c2009.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A girl helps her father shop for groceries and prepare and serve a home-made pizza.
Una niña ayuda a su padre hacer la compra y preparar y servir una pizza hecha en casa.
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Cuando Carrie se retira del tenis, es la mejor jugadora que el mundo ha visto jamas. Ha batido todos los records y ha conseguido veinte titulos de Grand Slam. Y si le preguntas, se merece cada uno de ellos. Lo ha sacrificado casi todo para convertirse en la mejor, con su padre como entrenador. Pero seis anos despues de retirarse, Carrie se encuentra en las gradas del US Open de 1994, viendo como una tenista britanica brutal e impresionante llamada...
1086) In Moonland
Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In present-day Melbourne, a man attempts to piece together the mystery of his father's apparent suicide, as his young family slowly implodes. At the ashram of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, in 1976, a man searching for salvation must confront his capacity for violence and darkness. And in a not-too-distant future, a woman with a life-altering decision to make travels through a climate-ravaged landscape to visit her estranged father. In Moonland is a portrait...
Author
Series
Publisher
Historias Gráficas
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
147 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
Honest and often wrenching graphic novel providing author's personal account of raising daughter with autism. Drawn and told with wry humor as well as compassion, narrates impact on parents and their marriage, as well as unique challenges, opportunities and talents of his daughter. Bef is well-known comic artist. High quality reproductions on heavy paper.
En esta entrañable novela hay dos voces. Una es la de Bef, que narra un camino personal que...
1088) Filigree's midnight ride
Author
Series
At the heels of history volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
550L
Physical Desc
192 pages cm.
Language
English
Description
Filigree the Pomeranian, the smallest dog in Boston, and nine-year-old Frances Revere help her father, Paul Revere, on his mission to warn colonists that British soldiers are coming in 1775. Includes historical notes.
1089) Disney dogs 2
Publisher
Disney Enterprises Inc
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
[Standard format] (Benji, Rascal, Journey), [Widescreen or standard format] (Where).
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 361 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Benji, the hunted: Benji is left in the wilderness after an accident. Rascal: A boy, a dog, and a pet raccoon provide merriment for the family. Where the red fern grows: A young boy longs for his own red-bone hunting dogs. The journey of Natty Gann: In the 1930s, a tomboyish girl runs away from her guardian to join her single father who is 2,000 miles away.
1090) Each tiny spark
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Emilia Torres struggles with ADHD, her controlling abuela, her mother's work commitments, her father's distance after returning from deployment, evolving friendships, and a conflict over school redistricting.
1091) Whippoorwill
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In rural New Hampshire, sixteen-year-old Clair and her eighteen-year-old neighbor, Danny, fall into an unlikely relationship as they work to save Wally, a loveable but mistreated dog kept chained in a junk-filled yard by Danny's cruel father.
1092) Crescendo
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones B, S.A. para el sello B de Bolsillo
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1a. edici?n.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Sixteen-year-old Nora Grey struggles to face the truth while coping with having a fallen angel boyfriend named Patch and unraveling the mystery surrounding her father's death.
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"CNN correspondent Tom Foreman's remarkable journey from half-hearted couch potato to ultra-marathon runner, with four half-marathons, three marathons, and 2,000 miles of training in between; a poignant and warm-hearted tale of parenting, overcoming the challenges of age, and quiet triumph. As a journalist whose career spans three decades, CNN correspondent Tom Foreman has reported from the heart of war zones, riots, and natural disasters. He has...
1094) A tale of two cities
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 126 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends emigre Charles Darnay from charges of spying against England. He becomes enamored of Darnay's fiancée, Lucie Manette, and agrees to help her save Darnay from the guillotine when he is captured by Revolutionaries in Paris"--Marg Baskin in the IMDB, viewed Dec. 12, 2006.
1095) The murderer's daughters
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
With their mother dead and their father imprisoned for her murder, Lulu and Merry grow up living tenuous lives that come to the brink of collapse when they learn that their unrepentant and manipulative father is about to be paroled.
1096) Hush, hush
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones B, S.A. para el sello B de Bolsillo
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1a. edici?n.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
Español
Description
High school sophomore Nora has always been very cautious in her relationships, but when Patch, who has a dark side she can sense, enrolls at her school, she is mysteriously and strongly drawn to him, despite warnings from her best friend, the school counselor, and her own instincts.
1097) Ace of hearts
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Officer Daniel Harding is a distinguished member of the towns K-9 police unit. His partner and best friend is Ace, a German shepherd. When Ace is accused of commiting a crime, Daniel and Julia, his junior sleuth daughter, set out to prove their heroic dog is innocent. Discover that with love and determination, anything is possible.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun, but the deeper she...
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (235 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Jean de Florette: Set amidst the rugged hills of Provence, this epic saga follows the heroic efforts of Jean Cadoret, who inherits a farm from his mother, Florette, and leaves his city job behind, hoping to create a "new Eden" with his wife and daughter. But, unbeknownst to Jean, his greedy neighbor, César Soubeyran, is plotting to steal the land out from under him with a wicked scheme that drives Jean to the brink of madness.
Manon of the spring:...
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