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2) Mind burn
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English
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"When your new employer tasks you with investigating the first successful mass shooting in twelve years, it's understandable to be nervous. Fortunately, detective-in-training Cowan Soto has a Personal Brain Assistant-a cybernetic implant-that allows him to firewall pesky emotions like worry and guilt and redact memories of bullet-riddled corpses. Unfortunately, Cowan soon learns it was his suspect's PBA which allowed a ruthless hacker to puppet her...
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English
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Nora has always been the sister who binds the O'Bannons together. No matter what crisis hits, smart, dependable Nora knows how to fix it. But for Nora, the pressure of perfection is taking its toll. Nora's marriage is in trouble and she has been reluctant to worry her sisters with just how dire her situation is. Now, though, faced with losing her husband, her home, and the life she's worked so hard to build, Nora can no longer pretend. As the O'Bannon...
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Someday Valley volume 2
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English
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The trees that circle Someday Valley near Honey Creek are dressed in their fall finest, providing a pretty backdrop for the local businesses--including the little bookshop loved by schoolteacher Cora Lee Buchanan. There, under the watchful eye of owner Noah O'Brien, Cora Lee and her sister, Katherine, meet each Wednesday. Their talk mostly revolves around one subject: their father, known to everyone in town as Bear. Both Cora Lee and Katherine worry...
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Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Willa has a whale of a problem. Willa the whale's a worrywart. She feels timid about raising her fin in class: What if she takes too long to answer or, worse, gets it wrong? When her teacher calls on her encouragingly, Willa remains silent. Whew! That worked; she's saved. But Willa begins to reflect on the teacher's comment to the class: "It isn't always easy / To share the things we know, / But ideas, thoughts, and questions / Are the way we learn...
6) City sights
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Series
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Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
"Leela has one day to show her cousin Isabelle around the city, and she worries Isabelle's trip will be ruined if she doesn't get to see the Statue of Liberty. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Calico Kid is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO" --
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Publisher
Syncretic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Matthew is given a notebook of white, smooth pages inviting him to draw. And Matthew draws. He draws a red and happy cat. But the days go by and the cat loses her smile. Matthew worries and adds drawings to make the cat happy. And so it continues, until he realizes that this is not the solution. Then he starts to think about what he can do to make the cat happy again, and in the end, he finds it.
8) Party time
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Series
The B.Y. times volume 6
Publisher
Menucha Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"When the Chinns throw a fabulous catered bas mitzvah party, it's a tough act for Chani Kaufman to follow. How can her bas mitzvah possibly top theirs-especially since her family is strapped for money? Party plans take a backseat when color war breaks out in school, splitting apart classes, friendships-and even Chinky and Pinky, those inseparable twins. Chani's got no time to worry about a bas mitzvah: with her team captain out sick, it's up to her...
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Lucy's father is a minor league baseball player, a professional pitcher hoping to get called up to the majors, and Lucy inherited his passion for the game. But she's never played pitcher. She worries her skills would be compared to her dad's and she'd never measure up. And his pitching may mean big things for his career and their family, but it's also what keeps him away from home so much of the year. Sometimes, Lucy isn't sure what would be worse:...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A tender, slyly comical, and shamelessly honest debut novel following a Japanese widow raising her son between worlds with the help of her Jewish mother-in-law, as she wrestles with grief, loss, and-strangest of all, joy. Shortly after her husband Levi's untimely death, Kyoko decides to raise their young son, Alex, in San Francisco, rather than return to Japan. Her nosy yet loving Jewish mother-in-law, Bubbe, encourages her to find new love and abandon...
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Rica Baptista volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Rica Baptista is living the good life. Grampy, the best Grampy of all Grampies, is coming to visit, and Adventure Week, the best week of all weeks, is finally here. Rica doesn't yet know if they will bounce on trampolines, go horseback riding, or even tour Fenway Park and watch the Red Sox play, but she knows they will have the best time ever. When Grampy hobbles into the house on crutches, however, Rica worries that this year's Adventure Week will...
13) Disfuncional
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Publisher
Random Cómics
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Te ríes de todo porque tu vida es un desastre o tu vida es un desastre porque te ríes de todo? Una familia desestructurada, niños atracadores, un padre que resuelve los problemas con un palo y una madre que refugia a sus hijos en la comida. En medio de una mudanza, con su vida sentimental patas arriba y preocupado por su próxima actuación, Gadler (no confundir con el nombre completamente distinto de su autor, Galder) tratará de mantener enterradas...