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Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
First Atria Paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Shares tales about dogs who advanced spiritual enlightenment in the humans whose lives they touched, from a Chihuahua who detected breast cancer in her owner to a Rottweiler who prevented her owner from committing suicide.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.8 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1410L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joseph J. Ellis is the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College. Educated at the College of William and Mary and Yale University, he served as a captain in the army and taught at West Point before coming to Mount Holyoke in 1972. He was dean of the faculty there for ten years. Among his previous books are Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams and American Sphinx, which won the 1997 National Book Award.
...Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In this all-new collection of beloved quotes, This Just Speaks to Me, #1 New York Times bestselling author Hoda Kotb offers inspiration, wisdom, and hope 365 days a year"--
Kotb shares quotes and stories, one for each day of the year. In writing about the people and moments that have enriched her life, she discusses everything from motherhood and friendship to love and loss. Her book also celebrates the countless acts of kindness that unfolded during...
Author
Publisher
[Stu Campbell]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Meet our young cowboy friend as he work his summer ranch job, then follow his journey alone with his horse and pregnant burro across a couple hundred miles to get home before school starts. The journey is adventurous, and the folks he meets along the way are all good folks...well, almost.
Author
Publisher
[Stu Campbell]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Follow our young cowboy friend while he works his summer job at a dude ranch where he picks up the nickname "Honey" -- a moniker he doesn't much like. He also finds himself with a girlfriend -- a situation he does like. "Honey" follows our young friend on his journey into manhood, which includes nightly kissing practice with his girlfriend Sally.
Author
Series
Adventures of a young cowboy volume 3
Publisher
[Stu Campbell]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Join Honey on his continuing adventures of becoming a cowboy. He finally graduates from high school ... 'I didn't graduate with honors, but it was an honor to graduate' ... and takes on more responsibility at his summer ranch job, continues his relationship with his girlfriend Sally, and has many surprises in store for him---some good and some not so good,"--back cover.
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning writer and producer hilariously destroys the cultural myths and impossible expectations of modern-day motherhood and explores the humiliations, poignancies, and possibilities of midlife.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First Atheneum Books for Young Readers edition.
Language
English
Description
"We often read heroic stories of brave people who made their mark on history. But did you know there are some pretty courageous creatures in our world, too? This captivating collection gathers fifty heartwarming, surprising, and powerful true stories of animals around the world who displayed immense bravery, aided in groundbreaking discoveries, and showed true friendship. Featuring a range of animals-from heroes to helpers, adventurers to achievers,...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In these affectionate letters to Francesca, a first grade teacher at an inner-city school in Boston, Jonathan Kozol vividly describes his repeated visits to her classroom while, under Francesca's likably irreverent questioning, also revealing his own most personal stories of the years that he has spent in public schools.Letters to a Young Teacher reignites a number of the controversial issues that Kozol has powerfully addressed in recent years: the...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Biographies of dozens of young people who made a mark in American history, including explorers, planters, spies, cowpunchers, sweatshop workers, and civil rights workers.
78) Chicken soup for the horse lover's soul II: inspirational tales of passion, achievement and devotion
Publisher
Health Communications
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
Julie Powell is 30 years old, living in a rundown apartment in Queens and working at a secretarial job that's going nowhere. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, and she invents a deranged assignment. She will cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking. In the span of one year. At first she thinks it will be easy, but as she moves from simple potato soup into more complicated realms, she...
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