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When her family hires a Haitian housekeeper who brings her daughter, America, along with her, 13-year-old Corky Corcoran, in 1964 Texas, befriends America and asks her to play with her girls' softball team which, crossing the color line and setting off afirestorm, brings big changes that will last a lifetime.
2) Bob books: Phonics, Ages 4 and Up, Kindergarten Stage 2; Emerging ReaderSet 2,Advancing beginners
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 12 x 15 cm
Description
"Bob Books Advancing Beginners builds on the skills learned in the Bob Books Stage 1 sets. These twelve stories are slightly longer while still using three-letter words and consistent short vowel sounds. This develops the confidence of young readers and helps ensure that they master basic phonics before moving on to more complex skills. Kids love the fun, drama, and surprise in these stories and pictures!""--
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In this uproarious exploration of the joys of reading, a long-time teacher, lifelong reader and The New Yorker contributor shares surprising stories from her life and the poignant ways in which books have impacted her students and shows us how literaturecan transform us for the better.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 12 x 15 cm
Description
"Bob Books Advancing Beginners builds on the skills learned in the Bob Books Stage 1 sets. These twelve stories are slightly longer while still using three-letter words and consistent short vowel sounds. This develops the confidence of young readers and helps ensure that they master basic phonics before moving on to more complex skills. Kids love the fun, drama, and surprise in these stories and pictures!""--
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Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
248 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"--
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Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In the small town of Los Lobos, California, three women join a local indie bookstore's summer book club-devoted entirely to romance novels-and become life-long friends as they navigate the messiness of motherhood, second chances and becoming the person you've always wanted to be.
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Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Of crime fiction's many sub-genres, none is so reflexive and so intriguing as the "bibliomystery": stories that involve crimes set, somehow, in the world of books. With fourteen tales of bibliophilic transgression from the Golden Age of the mystery genre(the decades between the two World Wars), this volume collects stories guaranteed to entertain, featuring work from well-remembered authors such as Cornell Woolrich and Anthony Boucher and from those...
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Publisher
Minerva
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Description
"A child busy reading in a treehouse spots a family who seems to have just arrived on Earth for a picnic. The youngest member of the alien family holds a mind-bendingly strange object. Could it be a book from outer space?"--
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Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Description
Introduces readers to one of the most famous women in the world and the idea of how books guided her life, from her childhood captivation with reading to her emergence as an American icon who revealed herself in the nearly 100 books she brought into print.
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