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1) Me-- Jane
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Holding her stuffed toy chimpanzee, young Jane Goodall observes nature, reads Tarzan books, and dreams of living in Africa and helping animals. Includes biographical information on the prominent zoologist.
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"Who made the clouds?" Abraham asks. "Who made the flowers?" Even as a child, he knows there must be something greater than idols of clay and stone. As he observes and questions the world around him, Abraham comes to the conclusion that there is one God. A creative midrash about the father of the world's religions.
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
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1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Based on the international best seller by Amos Oz, the story of his youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories told, become the stories lived.
5) Wind up
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The contract (Derek Jeter) volume 8
Publisher
Jeter Children's, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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170 pages ; 24 cm.
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"As Derek and his team tackle playoffs, everyone deals with the pressure in different ways. And practice gets intense! One of Derek's teammates, Avery, starts being especially hard on herself. She isn't even enjoying the game anymore. Can Derek and the rest of the team pull her out of her funk?"--
7) Eleanor
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Viking
Pub. Date
c1996
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[40] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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Presents the difficult childhood of Eleanor Roosevelt, who suffered the loss of both parents and had to overcome shyness and loneliness.
8) The contract
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The contract (Derek Jeter) volume 1
Publisher
Jeter Children's, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
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151 pages ; 24 cm
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In Kalamazoo, Michigan, eight-year-old Derek Jeter, who dreams of playing for the New York Yankees, learns what it takes to be a champion on and off the field.
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2008
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
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As he spends hours studying his father's world map, a young boy escapes the hunger and misery of refugee life. Based on the author's childhood in Kazakhstan, where he lived as a Polish refugee during World War II.
13) Amarcord
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Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
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1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Memories of episodes about love, sex, politics, family life and growing up in a small Italian town in the 1930's.
17) Fast break
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The contract (Derek Jeter) volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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155 pages ; 24 cm
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"Young Derek bites off more than he can chew when he decides to enter the school talent show and try out for the basketball team"--
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Booklocker.com, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
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176 pages ; 22 cm
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Orphaned as a child, Lu Chi Fa survived brutality and starvation in China during and after World War II. Once sold for two sacks of rice, in 1951 he fled to Hong Kong and Taiwan for a better life and immigrated to the United States in 1969. He and Becky White told that story in Double Luck: Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan; in 2001 it won the Parents' Choice Foundation Gold Award. This book adds details about Lu Chi Fa's early life and follows his quest...
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