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Author
Pub. Date
2019
Description
"Milo leads a lonely childhood marked by the absence of his mother, about whom he knows next to nothing. His father has gone to work in the city, leaving him in the care of his three elderly aunts, who give him his freedom to distract himself by the lake where he lives. In this lake, Milo discovers a fish egg of unusual size, and when it hatches, a magnificent golden fish is born. Milo is only half surprised when strange creatures, including a toad...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Bumble and Snug are two best friends who just so happen to be little monsters called Bugbops. One day, after getting lost on their way to a picnic, they find themselves on an abandoned island in the middle of the sea where they discover a treasure chest. When angry pirates follow their trail, Bumble and Snug will have to work together to avoid a giant octopus, replace the treasure, and find their way home. This first book in the bright and bold Bumble...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Robert Pinsky, admired for his ability to bring poetry to life as spoken language, has collected poems that sound marvelous in any reader's actual or imagined voice. Pinsky has organized the book into sections with brief introductions that emphasize the intuitive, attentive, and reflective process of listening to poetry. This structure also provides an implicit definition-by-example of poetry itself and an approach to poetry's range of pleasures.
1364) Lunar pack
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"This 5-level guided reading system helps kids master verbal, reading, and writing skills - starting at any level. Every app, storybook, and video has been hand-selected to help kids gain the knowledge they need to transition from learning-to-read to reading-to-learn. Emerging packs are ideal for readers who have reached the following milestones: Asks questions to confirm understanding; Knows letter sounds; Recognizes basic sight words; Identifies...
Author
Series
Girl from the other side : Siuil, a run volume 9
The firl from the other side volume 9
Girl from the other side Siuil a run volume 9
The firl from the other side volume 9
Girl from the other side Siuil a run volume 9
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Teacher has lost himself, becoming just another wandering Outsider. At first, Shiva doesn't want to believe, but as she realizes she's been forgotten, she falls into despair. Will the two of them ever truly connect again? Meanwhile, the truth of the world--and the machinations of gods--begins to come to light within the Inside. Humanity makes a choice. A little girl makes a choice. Their actions lead the way to a future that must not come to pass."--Back...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"An urgent and heartbreaking investigation into the corporate greed and governmental corruption that pumped millions of pain pills into small Appalachian towns"--Dust jacket flap.
A pharmacy in Kermit, West Virginia, distributed 12 million opioid pain pills in three years to a town with a population of 382 people. Debbie Preece lost her brother to opioid overdose, and was desperate for justice. Joined by a crusading lawyer and a local journalist,...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Shorter book club reads
CSL - Woman Authors
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Shorter book club reads
CSL - Woman Authors
Description
A musical, magical, resilient volume from one of our most celebrated and essential Native American voices.In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz...
1368) Assess pack
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"The goal of the Evaluation & Calculation Module is to teach kids to identify and analyze the details, data, and patterns that define the world around them. Topics in this module include quantification, research, algebraic thinking, statistics, association, and measurement. STEAM Academy offers an interdisciplinary approach that weaves together the science, technology, engineering, art, and math skills learned in the classroom and connects them to...