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Middle school is hard. Your bodies are changing, your friends are changing, classes are harder, and tough things happen. This “support group in a book” is specifically geared to you. Read stories written by kids just like you, about their middle school years, and: true friends and new friends; mean girls... and boys!; embarrassing moments; bully payback; crushes and young love; being happy with yourself; tough times; family issues; doing what’s right and lots more!

Have you ever heard of the “Mercury 13” women? Did you know that nearly twenty years before the first women were let into NASA’s astronaut program, there were others who tried? What are the requirements for being shot into space, piloting a hunk of metal while carrying the hopes and fears of your nation? Mastery of flying, as well as courage, intelligence, resistance to stress, and fitness – any checklist would certainly include these. But when America created NASA in 1958, there was an unspoken rule in place....

A middle-grade retelling of Richard Nixon’s downfall, Bringing Down A President: The Watergate Scandal is an inventive and timely look at one of the biggest scandals to ever rock our nation by Andrea Balis and Elizabeth Levy.

Colección de audiolibros sobre desarrollo sostenible. Aprende sobre el desarrollo sostenible y la importancia de cuidar nuestro planeta para las generaciones futuras.

Coleção de audiolivros sobre desenvolvimento sustentável. Aprenda sobre o desenvolvimento sustentável e a importância de cuidar do nosso planeta para as gerações futuras.

The Reconstruction and Rise of Jim Crow describes the fallout of the Civil War, whose aftermath left the United States South angry and poor. This book details the struggles to decide how to deal with the newly freed slaves, through the years of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, sharecropping, and segregation. The storyline also sets the stage for the country’s next battle, which is between the Jim Crow laws and the 14th and 15th Amendments.

Can you walk and talk at the same time? How about Jabber Walk? Can you write and draw and walk and journal all at the same time? If not, you're in luck: exuberant, blue-cheesy cilantro man Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States, is here to teach you everything he knows about being a real-life, bonified, jabberwalking poet! Jabberwalkers write and speak for themselves and others no matter where their feet may take them - to jabberwalk is to be a poet on the move.

Only one more week until book number five in the Nightmare on Zombie Street series comes out. When it does, Stink will be first in line at the bookstore to buy his copy and join the town’s Midnight Zombie Walk! Until then, Stink and his friends keep busy, working on zombie costumes and racking up points for the race to One Million Minutes of Reading. With all that talk about the undead, Stink starts to wonder: Is he being hunted by zombies?

It’s the third day of summer vacation, and Lark’s halmoni—that’s Korean for grandmother—has promised to take Lark and her twin brother, Connor, to the library. Only trouble is, they arrive to discover that the town librarian is missing her key to the library. Lucky for her, Lark just happens to be a budding private eye. Can rookie detectives Lark and Connor solve this mystery and recover the lost key?

In 1847 an eighteen-year-old immigrant arrived in New York. He had little in his pockets and no knowledge of English. However, by 1874, people throughout the United States knew him as the man who made blue jeans with copper rivets. Even now Levi Strauss's name lives on as a mark of quality and style. In Mr. Blue Jeans, Maryann N. Weidt presents the history of this hardworking man, as he struggles through long, grueling days as a peddler and challenging times as a young businessman.

Pani Panda przygotowała dla przedszkolaków niespodziankę–wycieczkę do biblioteki! Fenek i jego przyjaciele odkryją to wyjątkowe miejsce pełne książek i niesamowitych opowieści. Czym właściwie jest biblioteka? Jak się w niej zachować? Jakie tajemnice skrywają regały pełne książek?

Zwei witzige Geschichten von Bestsellerautorin Ursula Poznanski, die zur spielerischen Beschäftigung mit Buchstaben und Zahlen einladen Nach einem Sturm im Dschungel sammelt der kleine Affe viele lustig geformte Dinge ein: »Das sind Buchstaben«, weiß der schlaue Papagei. »Die hat bestimmt jemand verloren.« Und tatsächlich begegnen die beiden wenig später seltsamen Tieren, denen etwas zu fehlen scheint: einem Iger, einer Lange, einer Ledermaus, einem Al... Das Raumschiff von Yrg und Trapsodil ist in einen Sternensturm geraten, und nun ist der Bordcomputer kaputt.

Most people arrive at their tidy desks at 8 a.m. each day, and others jump out of airplanes to rescue others or face violent seas to catch fish. Each title in this series will introduce a fierce job, the people who take it on, and what each day might entail.

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