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"Wednesday Wilson is in a major funk, and the only thing that can make this day worse is that funks are contagious -- and hers is rubbing off on her brother, Mister. When Wednesday discovers that the true cause of Mister's funk is having to present his family tree at the school assembly, she devises a plan to get Mister a Worry Marble that will fix all his problems. And then a crowd of kids at recess also want Worry Marbles to fix their problems,...
2282) The land of yesterday
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After Cecelia Dahl's little brother, Celadon, dies tragically, his soul goes where all souls go: the Land of Yesterday -- and Cecelia is left behind in a fractured world without him. Her beloved house's spirit is crumbling beyond repair, her father is imprisoned by sorrow, and worst of all, her grief-stricken mother abandons the land of the living to follow Celadon into Yesterday. It's up to Cecelia to put her family back together, even if that means...
2283) I can eat with chopsticks =: Kuai zi : the tale of the chopstick brothers and how they became a pair
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This beautifully illustrated bilingual Chinese and English storybook welcomes you to enjoy a light-hearted story of how chopsticks became the main eating utensil of the Chinese People. When Little Mo picks up a small bamboo stick from the bamboo forest, she has no idea that it will eventually lead to one of China's most significant inventions. In this Children's story the stick comes to life to help in the kitchen. The little bamboo stick helps Mom...
2284) A feast for Joseph
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"Joseph misses sharing meals with lots of people like he did back in the refugee camp, so when the neighbors finally come over, it's a feast! A companion book to Joseph's Big Ride, described in Kirkus as "a joyful, upbeat tale." When Joseph and Mama lived in a refugee camp in East Africa, everyone cooked and ate together. And Joseph could always hear someone playing the awal. It's much too quiet and lonely in his new home. Though Whoosh, the girl...
2285) When clouds touch us
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Inspired by the authors experience, this stunning novel in verse, sequel to the award-winning #1 bestseller Inside Out and Back Again, picks up two years after Ha and her family arrive in Alabama as refugees from the Vietnam War, and Newbery Honor author Rajani LaRocca said "is a gorgeous book about upheaval, the strength of family, and fiercely reaching for the future." Two years ago, Ha and her family arrived in Alabama as refugees from the Vietnam...
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Looking for an engaging book to teach girls about Computer Science? This is it! Eight-year-old Terysa loves to solve problems. Give her some time and she'll figure out how to solve anything. So when Terysa is given an older computer for her birthday, she faces her biggest challenge yet: Can she make it talk? Terysa is full of good ideas, but will any of them work, or does she need to change her approach and think less like a human and think more like...
2287) La víspera de orgullo
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"Es la víspera de Orgullo y muchas familias se están preparando para participar. Mientras una familia en particular empaca bocadillos y hace cartelones, une hermane mayor comparte la importancia de la march con el miembro más nuevo de su familia. Sentada en el sofá con una mamá a cda lado, la familia habla sobre el significado del Orgullo. Es u día lleno de brillo, arcoíris y amor, pero tambien honra a aquella gente de la comunidad LGBTQ+...
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"When Paddington arrives in London, he's excited to explore the city that he's heard so much about. Thanks to a stroke of luck, he meets Mr. and Mrs. Brown at the train station. They welcome him into their home and agree to help him find the explorer who visited his family in Peru. As Paddington sets out to search for the explorer and discover the many wonders in the city, he catches the eye of an evil taxidermist who would love nothing more than...
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"Para variar, ¡Jim Pancé está de buen humor! Va a ir a una fiesta de pijamas en casa de sus padres y lo acompañará Norman. A Jim no podía hacerle más ilusión todo lo que ha planeado su familia: irán a cazar termitas, pescarán mangos y contarán historias de terror. ¡Jim se muere de ganas de pasarse toda la noche despierto! Pero ¿qué ocurrirá cuando aparezca su hermano "pequeño?" ¿Por qué lo llaman fiesta de pijamas si...
2290) Por un ratito
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"Cuando la familia de Maribel se tiene que mudar con la tía Carmen porque papi perdió su trabajo, Maribel y su hermana se sienten dudosas. No siempre es fácil compartir una habitación o estar en una casa llena de primos ruidosos, pero papi les recuerda a las niñas que es solo por un ratito. Mientras tanto, siempre hay alguien con quien jugar, la hora de comer está llena de música y carcajadas y la hora de dormir es para acurrucarse....
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English German Bilingual children's book. Perfect for kids studying English or German as their second language. Jimmy the little bunny goes to the beach with his family. There he learns about the importance of helping others. When Jimmy's sandcastle is destroyed by the wave, they work together to build the bigger and better one. Everything works out better when we help each other. Jimmy, der kleine Hase, fährt mit seiner Familie zum Strand. Dort...
2292) A house full of rabbits
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"Lotta has just started middle school-but life isn't going very smoothly. First of all, she has a teacher named Mrs. Crabbert-who is very, well, crabby. Then, her mom gives her a recorder that seems to make mysterious things happen. Lotta also wants to get her own pet . . . no matter what it takes. But her parents' refusal to consider her request, a fight with her best friend, and that weird recorder keep getting in the way. Can Lotta make it all...
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Berenstain Bears' lemonade stand (2014): Because they love mother's lemonade, Brother, Sister and Honey Bear decide to start up a lemonade stand to sell it to the neighborhood -- Berenstain Bears' Easter parade (2014): Berenstain Bears are getting ready for the Easter parade, except Brother Bear, who just can't seem to get in good spirits. What will bring a smile to his face during this happy Easter celebration -- Berenstain Bears clean house (2005):...
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"The switcheroo fun of The Parent Trap meets the showbiz spirit of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in this timeless coming-of-age story about family, friendship, and following your dreams. When Shira and Esther first meet, they can hardly believe their eyes. It's like looking in a mirror! But even though they may look identical, the two girls couldn't be more different. Shira dreams of singing and dancing onstage, but her father, a stern and pious rabbi,...
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Cuando los condes de Taimado se mudan al barrio de Violeta, ella está segura de que hay algo raro en ellos. Y cuando a su vecina, la excéntrica Didí Derota, le roban una joya muy valiosa llamada la Perla de Oriente, una serie de pistas hacen que Violeta crea que la nueva familia es la culpable del robo. Pero como nadie la escucha, violeta deberá utilizar toda su habilidad detectivesca para destapar la verdad.
"Meet Violet Remy-Robinson, an...
2297) Silent starsong
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Eleven-year-old Kyra is meant to continue the Starbard's proud family legacy of interpreting the future from the stars' songs. Her deafness, incurable by the best medics, breaks her mother's heart and pushes her father to explore anything to help his little girl-- including the expensive purchase of a telepathic alien servant to help Kyra communicate on a planet inhospitable to unfixable genetic defects. Marne's telepathy is too weak for his Naratsset...
2298) Invisible
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"Quand un jour l'argent vient à manquer pour payer les factures et le loyer, Isabelle et sa famille doivent déménager à l'autre bout de la ville. Isabelle commence à se sentir... invisible. Et elle s'aperçoit qu'elle n'est pas seule à se sentir invisible. Elle décide alors de se rendre utile et petit à petit, les choses changent... Une histoire touchante sur l'importance de vraiment voir ceux qui nous entourent, et de comprendre...
2299) Love is magic!
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"A celebration of friends, family, and love, this sturdy board book based on Disney's Encanto is perfect for Valentine's Day or any day! Children ages 0 to 3 will LOVE to read about the love shared between Mirabel and her whole family. Disney's Encanto tells the tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic...
2300) Witches' quarters
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"Charlotte's parents are fighting again. As the older of four children, Charolette needs something to distract her three siblings, June, the youngest, takes a quarter from a bag and drops it in a tree-shaped coin bank. But these are no ordinary quarters. The kids are transported to a new world-- on theat resembles the scene on the back of the coin. That world is Nova, and Nova is at war. The four siblings are now thrust into the middle of this...