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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 16
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Feeling isolated as the only African American in her sixth grade class, Jessi gains a sense of belonging by participating in the Baby-sitters Club, learning sign language in order to communicate with a deaf child, and dancing in a ballet.
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Series
Publisher
Fondo de Cultura Econ?mica
Pub. Date
2003
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
La ni?a de esta historia tiene un serio problema: una ma?ana se levanta m?s temprano que de costumbre y descubre un incre?ble secreto bien guardado por su madre hasta entonces. Un secreto que la hace a ella misma y a su familia distinta de todas las dem?s. ¿C?mo podr? comportarse normalmente desp?es de saberlo?
5) Above World
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Series
Above World volume 1
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In a future of high technology and genetic modification the Coral Kampii, like legendary mermaids, live isolated from the Above World, but when the devices that allow them to breathe underwater start to fail, thirteen-year-old Aluna and her friend Hoku go to that forbidden place to find help.
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Publisher
Fondo De Cultura Económica
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Este abecedario es caprichoso, y nace del juego de dibujar letras, sin pensar en nada mas que en su forma y el gusto de trazarlas sobre el papel. Con esta idea, Isol creo cada imagen y al final penso en una breve frase que uniera a la letra con el dibujo, ¡pues las palabras son muy buenas como pegamento! Este abecedario es entonces un juego que propone un acercamiento poco convencional con las letras, y donde cada imagen se presenta ante el lector...
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Similars volume 2
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Still reeling from the events of last year, Emma isolates herself from her friends and Ollie, but when Gravelle's plot is revealed, Emma realizes she must stop him before he destroys everyone she loves.
8) Sadie
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Appears on list
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Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance.
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Bowers files volume 5
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"While investigating a mysterious double homicide in an isolated northern Wisconsin town, FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers uncovers a high-tech conspiracy that ties together long-buried Cold War secrets with present-day tensions in the Middle East."--P. [2] of jacket.
11) Among the hidden
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Series
Shadow children volume 1
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In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
13) Hex Hall
Author
Series
Hex Hall novels volume 1
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
When Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, she is exiled to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters, where she learns that an unknown predator has been attacking students.
14) The homesman
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Four women in the isolated frontier territory go mad, and it is up to the unlikely combination of homesteader Mary Bee Cuddy and ne'er-do-well Briggs to escort them east to safety.
15) The glare
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Moving to her father's home in California after a decade at her mother's isolated ranch, a teen who has been taught to fear technology reunites with friends and family members before experiencing nightmares about a dark-web video game that poses life-threatening dangers.
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
212 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
In a story told in letters, when Claire's best friend moves away just before the start of fifth grade, Claire becomes the only girl in her tiny island elementary school--and suddenly boys she has been friends with her whole life turn into resentful, bullying strangers.
18) The lion of Mars
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"Bell has spent his whole life--all eleven years of it--on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid--he loves cats and any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why don't they have contact with anyoneon the other Mars colonies? Why are they so isolated? When a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, Bell and the other children are the only ones who can help. It's up to Bell--a regular...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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"Ree unveils real goings-on in the Drummond house and around the ranch. In stories brimming with the lively wit and humor found in her cookbooks and her bestselling love story, The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels, Ree pulls back the curtain and shares her experiences with childbirth, wildlife, isolation, teenagers, in-laws, and a twenty-five-year marriage to a cowboy/rancher."--publisher's website
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In the near future at a girls-only private high school isolated in the Colorado mountains, Mena and her classmates--under the watchful eyes of their Guardian, professors, and analyst--are trained to be beautiful and obedient for their sponsors and investors.
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