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Swahili English Bilingual children's book. Perfect for kids learning English or Swahili as their second language.In this touching bedtime story, a little girl describes why her Mom is awesome. We see her going through her day, carrying the warmest feeling about her mother.Mom always knows how she feels and can help with any problem. Mom can make the most complicated braid and explain fractions; Mom can help to wake her up in the morning and hug her...
62) Soari Blessed
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Caged. Traded. Hunted. Claimed. And still, she burns.In a land of people blessed by the gods, the king expects an offering from everyone. When the value of a gift expires, so does the gifted. And Princess Cerridwyn has but one idle gift. Her beauty. Raised by the most ruthless king under the Seven Stars, she's been prey to a monster whose hunger is never satisfied, caged in a castle she fears she'll never escape.But Cerridwyn has a secret. She's not...
63) Cast Away
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He set himself out to ruin me. But I'm not going down without a fight.When my parents sent me away, little did I know it would turn out to be the best and most heartbreaking summer of my life. My complicated existence began once I moved to Feather Lake, North Carolina. A job offer and a bus ticket and I was gone for the entire summer. My parents just forgot to mention my "vacation" would last for more than a week. A little detail that didn't sit well...
64) So Loud!
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A fun and touching debut that explores the power of finding your voice.
Rudābeh (Rudy for short) loves to talk, sing, jump and shout. There's just one problem: the adults in her life are always telling her that she is SO LOUD. When her grandmother (Māmān Bozorg) visits from Iran for the first time, Rudy worries that she might be too loud for her. But as she tries to be quieter, Rudy starts to feel less and less like herself. Listening closely...
65) Angst
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Collected here for the first time, the first three young adult novels of M.E. Purfield. A Pentecostal girl not only questions her faith when she meets a Buddhist punk in her school but also what it means to be family in jesus freakz + buddha punx. A guitarist bored with her art runs off to New York to live with her father and join the circus brewing in a time of great cultural change in Breaking Fellini. Delicate Cutters documents a teen girl's struggle...
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The Shark's Tooth is a poetic tale of imagination and conservation in which a young girl visiting her grandparents' beach house finds friendship with the ocean's creatures. Sharks' teeth are given to her by her new aquatic friends as gifts, symbolic of her connections to nature and the sea. As the little girl grows up and moves away to the city, she loses her kinship to the natural world. When she returns to the beach house as an adult, she is convinced...
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Amelia: young, naive, in love. Geoff: charming, narcissistic, intelligent. In a decidedly European affair, a young couple consummates a courtship destined for differences. The resultant pregnancy provides a haunting yet charming backdrop for the challenges of love and its often unwanted decisions.
In the first person and in a creative journal style, author Abigail Calkin explores three choices that Amelia can make-give birth, give the baby up for...
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Being a teenager today is one of the hardest jobs in the world. You have grades to maintain, obligations to extra-curricular activities, and soul-crushing pressure to excel at everything so colleges take notice. On top of it all, you're forced to act as your own public relations manager because, thanks to social media, every bit of your life is on display. No one knows that better than teen model, actress, and author Makaila Nichols. Nichols' book,...
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Meet Isabelle, the original itch Isabelle is an itch. She can't sit still and is always jumping from one thing to another. Being an itch means that she plans, jokes, plots, and schemes her way through life. Isabelle fights her best friend, Herbie, every day after school, and she's probably the fastest girl in her class, especially now that she has her new Adidas sneakers. Isabelle's dad says she could climb a mountain if she could just focus on one...
70) My Closest Bully
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This story sheds light of the true nature of our mind and the control that it has on our lives. The perspective from an adolescent child is an attempt to shed light on the reality that although mental health is prevalent amongst adults, our children are also suffering - often alone and in silence. The narration also provides a new perspective on how the stressors of our outside world are the result of each of our closest bully. By creating awareness...
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"Descubre la conmovedora historia de Marina en el cuento "La Canción de la Sirena Marina", la pequeña sirena que lucha contra el cambio climático. Con su valentía y compromiso, Marina nos enseña la importancia de cuidar y proteger nuestro planeta. Una historia épica y emotiva que inspirará a los niños a ser agentes del cambio en la protección del medio ambiente. ¡Únete a Marina y forma parte del movimiento global para salvar nuestro mundo...
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This illustrated storybook offers a delightful take on the Old Testament story of Queen Esther.
Esther's Grand Adventure brings the story of Esther to life in a relatable way for both kids and parents. It's a Bible story that reads like a bedtime story!
Following Esther as she goes from being an ordinary girl with big dreams to a queen who has the opportunity to save her people, Esther's Grand Adventure stars a brave and confident heroine, and...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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When feisty Edie is sent to a remote school to spy on fragile Anastasia, she never imagines that they'll become best friends instead--and discover an ominous plot that puts both their lives in danger!
Through a series of strange coincidences, orphan Edie finds herself at Knight's Haddon, a stately boarding school for girls. But Edie is not just another student--under normal circumstances, she could never afford to go to boarding school. She's been...
74) Rock Your Pearl!
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Young girls today are growing up in a culture where anything goes. Right is wrong and wrong is right; they are lost and confused about which standard to follow. Those that want to keep their virginity feel isolated. Some are on the fence and likely to bends towards the "new normal." Others have given up their virginity and now feel it's too late for them, unaware that they can begin again.Rock Your Pearl! will encourage teenage girls to honor, celebrate,...
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Cómo llevarte a una mujer a la cama de manera exitosa va a sumarte tanto en diversos aspectos, personal, intelectual, también mental, la verdad es que es impresionante la cantidad de personas que le darán utilidad, el uso adecuado a este manual, dónde encontrarás soluciones a problemas muy frecuentes.Tan sencillo, que vale la pena sumergirte e invertir tiempo al que de acuerdo con tu disposición le darás el mayor provecho. Al inicio de esta...
77) Finding Her Feet
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A shy but talented footballer navigates challenging friendships and anxiety at school in this touching tale from acclaimed author Eve Ainsworth. A shy but talented footballer navigates challenging friendships and anxiety at school in this touching tale from acclaimed author Eve Ainsworth. Lily always feels a little bit left out. Shy and anxious, she finds school really hard, particularly as most of the other girls all seem so confident. Most of the...
78) Entre la beauté de la jeunesse Et la fraiyeur du vieillissement: L'alimentation comme clé de la vita
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L'horloge implacable du temps continue de s'écouler, nous laissant face à une réalité incontournable : le vieillissement. Les miroirs ne mentent pas, et les signes du temps qui passe sont visibles sur notre corps, de la première ride à la perte de vitalité. Pourtant, une question demeure : pouvons-nous ralentir ce processus naturel ? La réponse se trouve peut-être dans notre assiette.L'alimentation a toujours été au cœur de la survie humaine,...
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The more things change, the more Ami wishes they'd stay exactly the same. Ami and her best friend, Mia, share almost everything - even the letters in their names! But when Ami's mom and dad separate and her mom moves out, even all of the traditions she and Mia share can't put her family back together. Ami wants everything to go back to the way it was - for her mother not to live in an apartment and have a life of her own, and for her dad not to go...
80) The A-List
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Welcome to The A-List, a wickedly funny and risqu paperback original novel that takes readers behind the scenes of the intoxicating world of Hollywood glitterati. Seventeen-year-old Upper East Side blueblood Anna ("pronounced Aaaanah") Percy is on her way to Beverly Hills, California, where she'll live with her estranged dad for the rest of the school year while her mother travels to Europe with a friend. On the plane, Anna drinks too much champagne...
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