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1) Posted
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When cell phones are banned at their school, students start communicating through sticky notes left all over the school, triggering a wave of bullying activities in the wake of a new girl's arrival.
Author
Language
English
Description
The inspiring, life-changing bestseller by the author of LEADERS EAT LAST and TOGETHER IS BETTER.
In 2009, Simon Sinek started a movement to help people become more inspired at work, and in turn inspire their colleagues and customers. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, including more than 28 million who’ve watched his TED Talk based on START WITH WHY — the third most popular TED video of...
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Language
English
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Description
"In today's workplace, conversations about diversity are vital but filled with potential pitfalls-award-winning consultant Mary-Frances Winters provides specific, tactical, and compassionate approaches for dialoguing across difference"--
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dog with unusual communication talents loses his poet owner before rescuing two children trapped in a snowstorm and leading them to the poet's cabin, where the children explore the memories that the poet has left behind.
7) Wolf-speaker
Author
Series
Immortals (Tamora Pierce) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
With the help of her animal friends, Daine fights to save the kingdom of Tortall from ambitious mortals and dangerous immortals.
8) The wedding
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
To save his own marriage, a middle-aged man takes inspiration from his in-law's enduring love.
9) Communication miracles for couples: easy and effective tools to create more love and less conflict
Author
Publisher
Conari Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
10) Hello! hello!
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A child seeks a way to communicate with parents and a brother who are busy with their electronic devices.
Author
Publisher
B&H Publishing Group
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
With great clarity, Dr. Chapman shows how communication and intimacy are key points in developing a successful marriage by focusing on these principles: Lasting answers to marital growth are found in the Bible, Your relationship with God enhances your marriage relationship, Communication is the main way two become one in a marriage, and Biblical oneness involves sex, but also intellectual, spiritual,emotional, and social oneness.
Author
Series
Teixcalaan novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass--still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire--face the impossible task of trying to communicate with a hostile entity....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
"Lockwood & Co. are hired to investigate Edmund Bickerstaff, a Victorian doctor who reportedly tried to communicate with the dead, while Lucy is distracted by urgent whispers coming from the skull in a ghost jar"-- Provided by publisher.
15) Show me a sign
Author
Series
Show me a sign volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
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Description
Two years after a tragedy saddles him with viral fame, twelve-year-old Simon O'Keeffe and his family move to Grin And Bear It, Nebraska, where the internet and cell phones are banned so astrophysicists can scan the sky for signs of alien life, and where, with the help of two new friends, a puppy, and a giant radio telescope, Simon plans to restart the narrative of his life.
Author
Series
Immortals (Tamora Pierce) volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When she is sent as part of the delegation from Tortall to negotiate a peace treaty with Carthak, fifteen-year-old Daine must use her powers to communicate with animals for more than healing the Carthak emperor's dying birds.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Goes beyond general etymology primers to counsel language enthusiasts on how to understand the pure significance of words, explaining the ways in which correct usage has a potential for enabling positive communication and more productive relationships.
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