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Author
Publisher
Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Rand Paul, U.S. senator for Kentucky and America's most prominent libertarian, makes a case against socialist ideology, showing the impact of its deadly legacy and the threat of its new rise in America"--
23) Wordplay
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
From stories of first love, unrequited love, love that surprises, love that's been there all along, ten of the brightest and award-winning authors writing YA have taken on some of your favorite romantic tropes, embracing them and turning them on their heads. Readers will swoon for this collection of stories that celebrate love at its most humorous, inclusive, heart-expanding, and serendipitous.
Author
Series
My weird school daze volume 8
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A.J. has to go see Miss Laney, the speech teacher, which makes no sense at all because he already knows how to talk. Miss Laney has him say weird tongue twisters and forces him to star in the third-grade play, Romeo and Juliet.
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A snow storm the day before Christmas causes a boy many worries, which are not helped by such confusing phrases as "Don't be a wet blanket" and "That's the way the cookie crumbles.".
27) Nell
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
The backwoods of North Carolina is where Nell lives, all alone. She has her own form of language and no idea of a world beyond her small plot of land. When civilization enters her life, Nell's life will never be the same again.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The compulsion to silence others is as old as the urge to speak. Berkowitz reveals how drastically censorship has shaped our modern society. His book illuminates the power of restricting speech; how it has defined states, ideas, and culture; and (despite how each of us would like to believe otherwise) how it is something we all participate in. From the first Chinese emperor's wholesale elimination of books, to the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the volatile...
Author
Publisher
Paw Prints Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"When a new student, Violet, joins Mr. Garcia's class, everyone gives her a warm welcome. Especially Mandy, and the two become fast friends. Mandy admires Violet, especially her confidence when talking in front of the whole class. Even if Violet does it a little differently than most (Violet has apraxia of speech, which means she uses a tablet to help her speak). So, when it's Mandy's turn to get in front of the whole class to speak--for show and...
31) Words: a novel
Author
Publisher
B&H Publishing Group
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year old Kaylee Wren doesn't speak. Not since her drug-addled mother walked away, leaving her in a remote cabin nestled in the towering redwoods--in the care of a man who is as dangerous as he is evil. With silence her only refuge, Kaylee collects words she might never speak from the only memento her mother left behind: a dictionary. Sierra Dawn is thirty-four, an artist, and alone. She has allowed the shame of her past to silence her present...
Author
Publisher
Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The Progressive Woke Machine-from outrage mobs and online censorship to activists masquerading as journalists-is waging war against the last free thinkers in the world. This book is both an explanation of the current political upheaval and your guide to surviving it. America, and the West in general, is in the midst of an identity crisis that's headed towards an outright revolution. The progressive left, once the advocates of free expression and...
Author
Publisher
Indigo River Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A heartfelt story about a young boy who struggles to overcome his stutter while finding the courage to accept it, When Oliver Speaks is the story of an underdog who learns to rise. The story comes from a place of personal experience in that co-author Saadiq is a person who stutters and has done so for as long as he could speak."--Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
No Starch Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Build voice-controlled apps; starting with a Python refresher and an introduction to speech-recognition/text-to-speech functionalities, then more advanced topics, like making your own modules and building working voice-controlled apps. Each chapter includes multiple projects and end-of-chapter exercise. You'll design interactive games, like Connect Four and Tic-Tac-Toe, and create intelligent computer opponents that talk and take commands; you'll...
40) Whisper
Author
Series
Whisper (Noni) volume 1
Publisher
KCP Loft
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A girl known as Jane Doe who has the power to change reality has been held in a secret government facility for more than two years, but everything changes when she gets a new handler, the mysterious but kind Landon Ward.
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