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African-Americans in business

Davidson, Tish.


Title from Web page (viewed on March 7, 2013). Describes how African Americans overcame obstacles and stereotypes to make their dreams of owning their own business or making it to the top of the corporate ladder a reality.
Date Published:2013

A second shot

Kuskowski, Alex.


Wallace messed up at his old school and this new school was his last shot, but he wasn't giving up basketball, not for bullies, not for anyone.
Date Published:2012

Junie B. Jones and a little monkey business

Park, Barbara


"RL: 1.9"--P. [4] of cover. "A First stepping stone book." Through a misunderstanding, Junie B. thinks that her new baby brother is really a baby monkey, and her report of this news creates excitement and trouble in her kindergarten class.
Date Published:1993

Artemis Fowl : the Arctic incident /

Colfer, Eoin.


When Artemis learns that his father has been kidnapped by the Russian mob, he races to the Arctic Circle to make a daring rescue, where he finds an old acquaintance, Captain Holly Short, who is investigating a plot of the goblin mob.
Date Published:2002

Dear medusa : (a novel in verse) /

Cole, Olivia A.


Unabridged. This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse as she grapples with how to reclaim her story, her anger, and her body in a world that seems determined to punish her for the sin of surviving. "This is more than a story about sexual violenceâ€”this book is about race, sexuality, love, and how anger can be a catalyst for healing." â€”Gabrielle Union, bestselling author, actress, and producer Sixteen-year-old Alicia Rivers has a reputation that precedes her. But thereâ€™s more to her story than the whispers that follow her throughout the hallways at schoolâ€”whispers that splinter into a million different insults that really mean: a girl who has had sex. But what her classmates don't know is that Alicia was sexually abused by a popular teacher, and that trauma has rewritten every cell in her body into someone she doesn't recognize. To the world around her, sheâ€™s been cast, like the mythical Medusa, as not the victim but the monster of her own story: the slut who asked for it.Â Alicia was abandoned by her best friend, quit the track team, and now spends her days in detention feeling isolated and invisible. When mysterious letters left in her locker hint at another victim, Alicia struggles to keep up the walls she's built around her trauma. At the same time, her growing attraction to a new girl in school makes her question what those walls are really keeping out.Â "[This] fierce and brightly burning feminist roarâ€îpaints a devastating and haunting portrait of a vulnerable young woman discovering the power of her voice, her courage, and her rage." â€”Samira Ahmed, New York Times bestselling author of Internment and Hollow Fires.
Date Published:2023

Unabridged. This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse as she grapples with how to reclaim her story, her anger, and her body in a world that seems determined to punish her for the sin of surviving. "This is more than a story about sexual violenceâ€”this book is about race, sexuality, love, and how anger can be a catalyst for healing." â€”Gabrielle Union, bestselling author, actress, and producer Sixteen-year-old Alicia Rivers has a reputation that precedes her. But thereâ€™s more to her story than the whispers that follow her throughout the hallways at schoolâ€”whispers that splinter into a million different insults that really mean: a girl who has had sex. But what her classmates don't know is that Alicia was sexually abused by a popular teacher, and that trauma has rewritten every cell in her body into someone she doesn't recognize. To the world around her, sheâ€™s been cast, like the mythical Medusa, as not the victim but the monster of her own story: the slut who asked for it.Â Alicia was abandoned by her best friend, quit the track team, and now spends her days in detention feeling isolated and invisible. When mysterious letters left in her locker hint at another victim, Alicia struggles to keep up the walls she's built around her trauma. At the same time, her growing attraction to a new girl in school makes her question what those walls are really keeping out.Â "[This] fierce and brightly burning feminist roarâ€îpaints a devastating and haunting portrait of a vulnerable young woman discovering the power of her voice, her courage, and her rage." â€”Samira Ahmed, New York Times bestselling author of Internment and Hollow Fires.

Date Published:2023

Atonement : a novel /

McEwan, Ian


On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister, Cecilia, strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries and committed a crime that creates in her a sense of guilt that will color her entire life. Ian McEwan has in each of his novels drawn the reader brilliantly into the intimate lives and situations of his characters. But never before has he written on a canvas so large: taking the reader from a manor house in England in 1935, to the retreat to Dunkirk in 1941, to a London hospital soon after where the maimed, broken, and dying soldiers are shipped from the evacuation, to a reunion of the Tallis clan in 1999. Atonement is Ian McEwan's finest achievement. Brilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war. England and class, it is at its center a profound-and profoundly moving-exploration of shame and forgiveness, of atonement and the difficulty of absolution.
Date Published:2001

On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister, Cecilia, strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries and committed a crime that creates in her a sense of guilt that will color her entire life. Ian McEwan has in each of his novels drawn the reader brilliantly into the intimate lives and situations of his characters. But never before has he written on a canvas so large: taking the reader from a manor house in England in 1935, to the retreat to Dunkirk in 1941, to a London hospital soon after where the maimed, broken, and dying soldiers are shipped from the evacuation, to a reunion of the Tallis clan in 1999. Atonement is Ian McEwan's finest achievement. Brilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war. England and class, it is at its center a profound-and profoundly moving-exploration of shame and forgiveness, of atonement and the difficulty of absolution.

Date Published:2001

The everything kids' nature book : create clouds, make waves, defy gravity and much more! /

Kowalski, Kathiann M., 1955-


Kids love nature, and with The Everything Kids' Nature Book, they'll keep busy for hours. Packed with information and activities, kids will: Roam the natural world of their own backyardDiscover how birds, bats, and bugs pollinate the landscapeLearn about life on the edge of the seaAnd more!
Date Published:2000

Friday night stage lights

Alpine, Rachele, 1979-,


Brooklyn Gartner eats, sleeps, and breathes ballet. But after her mom gets remarried and moves them to Texas, everything changes. Thanks to her star football player stepbrother, her family is football obsessed. And thanks to a new conditioning program, the middle school football team starts to take classes at her dance studio--the only place Brooklyn felt like she belonged. She has a chance to escape if she can get into her dream high school, The Texas School of the Arts, where she'll be able to pursue her passion for dance. Brooklyn just has to get through the big All-City showcase first, where a ton of scouts will be there, including one from TSOTA. But when Brooklyn's dance partner gets injured, she has to turn to an unexpected ally--Logan, a boy on the middle school football team--to help her get through the showcase. With some fancy footwork, teamwork and a little understanding, can Brooklyn make her mark, and dance her way onto a bigger stage?
Date Published:2018

Brooklyn Gartner eats, sleeps, and breathes ballet. But after her mom gets remarried and moves them to Texas, everything changes. Thanks to her star football player stepbrother, her family is football obsessed. And thanks to a new conditioning program, the middle school football team starts to take classes at her dance studio--the only place Brooklyn felt like she belonged. She has a chance to escape if she can get into her dream high school, The Texas School of the Arts, where she'll be able to pursue her passion for dance. Brooklyn just has to get through the big All-City showcase first, where a ton of scouts will be there, including one from TSOTA. But when Brooklyn's dance partner gets injured, she has to turn to an unexpected ally--Logan, a boy on the middle school football team--to help her get through the showcase. With some fancy footwork, teamwork and a little understanding, can Brooklyn make her mark, and dance her way onto a bigger stage?

Date Published:2018

Valiant

Livingston, Lesley.,


The daughter of a proud Celtic king is captured and sold to a training school for women gladiators under the patronage of Julius Caesar, circumstances that put her survival in the hands of an enemy who was responsible for her sister's death.
Date Published:2017

Camp Half-Blood confidential : your real guide to the demigod training camp /

Riordan, Rick.,


"An official Rick Riordan companion book." At head of title: From Percy Jackson. In response to an awful camp orientation video created by the god Apollo, Percy Jackson and other residents of Camp Half-Blood answer such questions as "What is this place?" and "Do I get to keep the T-shirt?" Newbies can check out the section on the Divine Cabins, read up on Magical Landmarks, and consult the chapter of Training Arenas. But Camp Half-Blood Confidential explores much more than just the buildings and grounds. It includes info that can only be learned from those who live there. For instance, campers do not always co-exist in peace and harmony. The camp is not run with superior efficiency. Prophecies do not flow forth with great regularity. Sprinkled throughout are stories from heroes who have called Camp Half-Blood home or just passed through on their way to places unknown. Chiron himself introduces the book with a brief history of training based on his millennia of experience. And, of course, there are divine words of wisdom from the god Apollo himself, because . . . well, because the demigod authors would prefer not to be struck down, thank you very much.
Date Published:2017

"An official Rick Riordan companion book." At head of title: From Percy Jackson. In response to an awful camp orientation video created by the god Apollo, Percy Jackson and other residents of Camp Half-Blood answer such questions as "What is this place?" and "Do I get to keep the T-shirt?" Newbies can check out the section on the Divine Cabins, read up on Magical Landmarks, and consult the chapter of Training Arenas. But Camp Half-Blood Confidential explores much more than just the buildings and grounds. It includes info that can only be learned from those who live there. For instance, campers do not always co-exist in peace and harmony. The camp is not run with superior efficiency. Prophecies do not flow forth with great regularity. Sprinkled throughout are stories from heroes who have called Camp Half-Blood home or just passed through on their way to places unknown. Chiron himself introduces the book with a brief history of training based on his millennia of experience. And, of course, there are divine words of wisdom from the god Apollo himself, because . . . well, because the demigod authors would prefer not to be struck down, thank you very much.

Date Published:2017

Black Beauty : the autobiography of a horse /

Sewell, Anna, 1820-1878.


"From a 1911 edition" --T.p. verso. A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.
Date Published:2012

13 and counting

Greenwald, Lisa.,


"[This is] the third book in this laugh-out-loud series about two BFFs who master middle school with a list of thirteen goals they MUST achieve before their first summer apart. With winter break almost over and seventh grade spinning beyond their control, best friends Kaylan and Ari write a new list of 13 resolutions to make the New Year, middle school, and their friendship even more amazing before they go to separate camps next summer. But what happens when their bestie bucket list reveals issues in their friend group? Can they want totally different things and still be BFFs? Told in the alternating POVs of Ari and Kaylan -- and with goals inspired by suggestions from readers -- this contemporary coming-of-age story is bound to be the most heartbreaking and hilarious Friendship List yet." --
Date Published:2019

"[This is] the third book in this laugh-out-loud series about two BFFs who master middle school with a list of thirteen goals they MUST achieve before their first summer apart. With winter break almost over and seventh grade spinning beyond their control, best friends Kaylan and Ari write a new list of 13 resolutions to make the New Year, middle school, and their friendship even more amazing before they go to separate camps next summer. But what happens when their bestie bucket list reveals issues in their friend group? Can they want totally different things and still be BFFs? Told in the alternating POVs of Ari and Kaylan -- and with goals inspired by suggestions from readers -- this contemporary coming-of-age story is bound to be the most heartbreaking and hilarious Friendship List yet." --

Date Published:2019

Geoscientist

Mullins, Matt.


Title proper from title frame. Studying the Earth -- Working as a geoscientist -- Becoming a geoscientist -- Geoscience in thefuture -- Some well-known geoscientists. School Library Journal, April 2013. Describes the skills necessary to pursue a career as a geoscientist, and examines the type of work they do.
Date Published:2013

Battle extravagonzo.

Tobin, Paul.


Originally published by Dark Horse Comics, 2017. Graphic Novel. Abdo Digital eBook. Lib. Bdg. LCCN 2019938226. Zomboss and Crazy Dave both want to buy the same factory at the center of Neighborville, but the owner proposes a battle extravagonzo to declare a winner.
Date Published:2017

Ivy + Bean what's the big idea

Barrows, Annie.


When all the second grade students must enter the science fair, which has global warming as its theme, best friends Ivy and Bean team up to create an unusual project.
Date Published:2010

The day the Earth stood still

Thomas, Isabel, 1980-


Spinning through space -- Which side are you on? -- Extreme weather -- Twisting and turning -- The real danger -- Round up!. Horn Book, October 2006. Presents a short study of how the earth moves in space, and describes the days and seasons, the orbit of the earth around the sun, and more.
Date Published:2006

Ireland

Walker, Ida.


The landscape -- Ireland's history and government -- The economy -- Ireland's people and culture -- The cities -- The formation of the European Union -- A calendar of Irish festivals -- Recipes. Horn Book, October 2006. Library Media Connection, January 2007. Presents the history, culture, economy, and government of Ireland, and describes major cities, landscape, people, holidays and festivals, and its place in the European Union.
Date Published:2006

The landscape -- Ireland's history and government -- The economy -- Ireland's people and culture -- The cities -- The formation of the European Union -- A calendar of Irish festivals -- Recipes. Horn Book, October 2006. Library Media Connection, January 2007. Presents the history, culture, economy, and government of Ireland, and describes major cities, landscape, people, holidays and festivals, and its place in the European Union.

Date Published:2006

Brothers to the death

Shan, Darren


Prequel to Cirque du Freak series. Vampire Larten Crepsley must prevent the Nazis from gaining access to the power of the vampires, even when his blood brother Wester delivers the news that the one person Larten loves most in the world might be in danger of a deadly vampaneze attack.
Date Published:2012

Bad kitty

Bruel, Nick.,


OverDrive (READ) format features optional read-along narration. When a kitty discovers there is no cat food in the house, she decides to become very, very bad. From the creator of the New York Times bestseller Boing! comes the riotous story of a cat gone berserk--four times over in alphabetical order. Kitty is not happy when she's told that her favorite foods are all gone and all that's left are asparagus, beets, cauliflower, dill, and 22 other equally unappealing vegetables. So she ate my homework, bit grandma, clawed the curtains, damaged the dishes, and so on, through Z. Only when tastier things arrive, an assortment of anchovies, buffalo burritos, chicken cheesecake, does she apologize to grandma.
Date Published:2005

OverDrive (READ) format features optional read-along narration. When a kitty discovers there is no cat food in the house, she decides to become very, very bad. From the creator of the New York Times bestseller Boing! comes the riotous story of a cat gone berserk--four times over in alphabetical order. Kitty is not happy when she's told that her favorite foods are all gone and all that's left are asparagus, beets, cauliflower, dill, and 22 other equally unappealing vegetables. So she ate my homework, bit grandma, clawed the curtains, damaged the dishes, and so on, through Z. Only when tastier things arrive, an assortment of anchovies, buffalo burritos, chicken cheesecake, does she apologize to grandma.

Date Published:2005

Rain forest destruction

McLeish, Ewan, 1950-


School Library Journal, May 2007. Library Media Connection, November 2007. Explores the problem of rain forest destruction, discussing the importance of rain forests to Earth, the causes and effects of deforestation, and what people can do to save rain forest biomes.
Date Published:2007