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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"A conversation between friends Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark about what they've learned from their biggest mistakes, their most triumphant successes, their favorite therapists, and their mutual obsession with true crime. From growing up as latchkey kids to their formative years working at the Gap and Hot Topic to their struggles with substances and mental health, Karen and Georgia share a series of captivating stories about some of the most...
3262) Act
Author
Series
Click volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"How do you know when the person who can make the difference . . . is you? Olive is excited to start sixth grade: new teachers, new experiences, and a field trip to the big city with her best buds! But when Olive finds out that a school policy is keeping some kids from going on the trip, she decides to act. She's prepared to do whatever it takes to be heard even if it means running against Trent and Sawyer, two of her closest friends, in the student...
3263) V for victory: a novel
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Series
Crooked heart volume 2
Language
English
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It's late 1944. In a large house next to Hampstead Heath, Vee Sedge is barely scraping by with a herd of lodgers to feed and her young charge Noel, almost fifteen now, to clothe and educate. When she witnesses an accident and finds herself in court, the repercussions are both unexpectedly marvelous and potentially disastrous. Because Vee is not actually the person she's pretending to be, and neither is Noel.
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Description
A fake engagement, second chances, and newfound family members come together in this new romance from the New York Times bestselling author of the "swoon-worthy" (Business Insider) The Spanish Love Deception.
Josie Moore has given the opposite sex—and love—plenty of chances. Four exactly, if you count all her failed engagements, and five if you include her no-longer-absentee father. Nonetheless, when the...
Josie Moore has given the opposite sex—and love—plenty of chances. Four exactly, if you count all her failed engagements, and five if you include her no-longer-absentee father. Nonetheless, when the...
Author
Series
Roscoe Riley rules volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When first-grader Roscoe discovers that his stuffed pig is missing from his backpack, he accuses the class bully of "pig-napping" and gets even by taking the bully's teddy bear.
3266) Lion down
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Series
FunJungle volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
For once, operations at the enormous zoo/theme park appear to be running smoothly (except for the occasional herring-related mishap in the penguin exhibit) and Teddy Fitzroy is finally able to give detective work a rest. But then a local lion is accused of killing a famous dog--and the dog's owner, an inflammatory radio host, goes on a crusade to have the cat declared a nuisance so it can be hunted. However, there's evidence that the lion might have...
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Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
PopCap's immensely popular Plants vs. Zombies game gets another serving of hilarious, plant-filled, zombie-zapping comics! Crazy Dave—the babbling-yet-brilliant inventor and top-notch neighborhood defender—helps his niece, Patrice, and young adventurer Nate Timely fend off Zomboss's latest global attack in Plants vs. Zombies: Timepocalypse! This new, standalone tale will tickle your funny bones and thrill . . . your brains! Paul...
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Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
A story of the bond between fathers and sons, Yankee fans and the Fenway faithful, and grapples with the urgent need to find our story in an age of irony and artifice. When Ted hears the news that his estranged father Marty is dying of lung cancer, he immediately moves back into his childhood home, where a whirlwind of revelations ensues.
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Language
English
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Description
"From the star of Broadway's The Book of Mormon and HBO's Girls, the heartfelt and hilarious coming-of-age memoir of a Midwestern boy surviving bad auditions, bad relationships, and some really bad highlights as he chases his dreams in New York City."--Publisher's description.
3271) Ser distinto no es tan raro: Cómo tomarse la vida, la enfermedad y a uno mismo con mucho humor
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Publisher
Vergara/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Un testimonio de superación personal sobre cómo tomarse la vida, la enfermedad y a uno mismo con humor. "Si no me tomara todo lo que me ocurre y me ha ocurrido con humor, habría muerto (de asco) hace años". Hay veces en una vida en las que el mundo se detiene. Para los padres de Felipe Mateos, el mundo se detuvo el día en que nació. Porque Felipe había nacido con osteogénesis imperfecta. O, como se conoce popularmente: la enfermedad de los...
3274) Not so normal Norbert
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Having been judged Different, Norbert, Drew, and Sophie are banished from the United State of Earth to Astronuts Camp on Zorquat 3 in the Orion Nebula, interfering with Norbert's quest to find his parents.
Author
Series
Class Mom volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Laurie Gelman's "irreverent and hilarious" (The New York Post) hit Class Mom, brash, lovable Jen Dixon is back with a new class and her work cut out for her. If you've ever been a room parent or school volunteer, Jen Dixon is your hero. She says what every class mom is really thinking, whether in her notoriously frank emails or standup-worthy interactions with the micromanaging PTA President and the gamut of...
3276) Carina Felina
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carina Felina is an arrogant cat with an appetite so huge that she eats everything and everyone who crosses her path as she ambles through Havana--until a small crab outsmarts her and saves the day.
3277) The mall
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
New Jersey, 1991. Cassie Worthy is psyched to spend the summer after graduation working at the Parkway Center Mall. In six weeks, she and her boyfriend head off to college in NYC to fulfill The Plan: higher education and happily ever after. But you know what they say about the best laid plans.... -- adapted from jacket
With her plans for the future crushed at the start of the summer of 1991, seventeen-year-old Cassie Worthy finds friendship, love,...
3278) Porch lights
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Series
Lowcountry tales (Dorothea Benton Frank) volume 10
Language
English
Description
As a nurse serving in Iraq, TK has seen tragedy and hope, pain and miracles But not even the terror and hardship of war can prepare her for the challenges that face her when she learns that her husband was killed in a car accident. Lost and directionless, floating on a sea of grief and unable to care for her son alone, she returns to the South Carolina Lowcountry of her youth, to Sullivan's Island.
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Series
Origami Yoda books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future. Includes instructions for making Origami Yoda.
3280) Marcus makes a movie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Stand-up comedian and Hollywood box-office hit Kevin Hart keeps the laughs coming in an illustrated middle-grade novel about a boy who has big dreams of making a blockbuster superhero film.
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