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Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; cm
Language
English
Description
"Mother Nature is a very busy woman. Her job is to tend to the Earth and all the creatures that dwell there; she must wake up the bulbs and warm the land in spring, then rush off to freeze the ponds and create snow in winter. But more than anything, Mother Nature wants children of her own. So with twigs and things she made five: Fear, Envy, Hate, Greed, and Fickle. She asks the most helpless of creatures; the poor, wingless humans; to watch over them...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 112 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses Taleb's view of modern civilization's hubristic side effects--modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery.
64) The ball hogs
Author
Series
Kickers volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
119 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Ben, a natural athlete and member of the Bobcats co-ed soccer team, wants to overcome his inexperience and prove himself on the field, but his obnoxious teammate, Mark, keeps hogging the ball.
66) William's doll
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
William's father gives him a basketball and a train but these do not make him want a doll less.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First English-language edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 461 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Challenges popular conceptions of an innately selfish human race to offer new historical and evolutionary perspectives that argue humans are more hardwired for kindness, cooperation and trust.
69) By day, by night
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, An Imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
By Day, By Night journeys from morning to evening, from country to country, into the hearts of people everywhere.
Author
Series
Lulu (Judith Viorst) volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
182 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Lulu's parents go on vacation, the formidable Ms. Sonia Sofia Solinsky comes to babysit and Lulu behaves as badly as possible to get her to leave until Ms. Solinsky reveals her secret.
72) Places to be
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"We have so many places to be! Places to be loud and lovely and scared and jubilant. With an elegant simplicity, this picture book celebrates all our wide-ranging emotions--and the adventures that await us each day." --
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Klondike isn't supposed to eat the cupcakes until his sister's birthday party...but can he wait that long?"--
Author
Series
Sophie books (Rosemary Wells) volume 2
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
On her second birthday, Sophie gets up on the wrong side of the crib and behaves terribly until her grandmother has an inspiration.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tired of being told to be polite and to not misbehave, a child considers trading places with various animals and a monster.
78) An annoying ABC
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col ill. ; 19 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Adelaide annoys Bailey, their entire preschool class gets upset, one child after another, until Zelda zaps Adelaide and a round of apologies begins.
Author
Series
Five Little Monkeys volume 8
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Mama has said it is time for "Lights out! Sweet dreams! No more reading in bed," but her five little monkeys cannot resist reading just a few more books to one another.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 377 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Highly accessible, authoritative, and intellectually provocative, a startlingly original theory of how Homo sapiens came to be: Richard Wrangham forcefully argues that, a quarter of a million years ago, rising intelligence among our ancestors led to a unique new ability with unexpected consequences: our ancestors invented socially sanctioned capital punishment, facilitating domestication, increased cooperation, the accumulation of culture, and ultimately...
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