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3) Down to business: 51 industry leaders share practical advice on how to become a young entrepreneur
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Fenley and Jason provide access to leading innovators, inventors, and executives as they tell their stories and provide tips to a new generation of bosses"--
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Abby Akerman believes in the Universe. After all, her Midwest high school marching band is about to perform in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City--if that's not proof that magical things can happen, what is? New York also happens to be the setting of her favorite romance novel, making it the perfect place for Abby to finally tell her best friend Kat that she's in love with her (and, um, gay). She's carefully annotated a copy of the...
8) Trajectory
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
As the United States enters World War II, seventeen-year-old Eleanor wants to do something to help her Jewish relatives in Poland, so she puts her brilliant math skills to work for the US army to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help defeat the enemy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Fulcrum Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
"In Squirrel Is Alive, Mary Rostad tells the harrowing story of her time working in the Belgian resistance and French underground during World War II. As a teenager in 1940, Mary was horrified by the war unfolding around her as the Nazis invaded her home country of Belgium. Only fifteen years old, and unable to ignore the atrocities she witnessed every day, she started working for the Belgian resistance by passing out literature and thwarting the...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Everyone is looking for their dreams to come true. Nathan dreams of a basketball comeback; Haley is looking for musical success; Peyton is hoping for happiness; Mouth needs to find a decent job; Jamie wants to be like his hero Q; Brooke is hoping to save the Clothes Over Bro's brand from her nasty mom; Lucas is hoping to find the right girl to marry. What isn't a dream: Dan learning what it's like to be on the other side of a sadist-victim relationship...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
"Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California"--Provided by publisher.
12) Island of youth
Author
Series
Publisher
Golden Book
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
While keeping her cousin Esteban distracted to prepare for his surprise birthday party, Elena takes him sailing to a mysterious island where they discover the famed fountain of youth.
13) Funny woman
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
It's the height of the swinging 60s and Barbara Parker has just been crowned Miss Blackpool but there's got to be more to life than being a beauty queen in a seaside town, right? She wants to be someone. The bright lights of London are calling, and our determined hero sets off to find out who that someone is. The London she encounters is not as quite as swinging as the one she'd read about and seen on TV. However, after a series of setbacks, Barbara...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Regent Academy is known for molding teens into leaders, but its history is far more nefarious. Seventeen-year-old Douglas Jones wants nothing to do with Regent's king-making; he's just trying to survive. But when a student is murdered and, for some reason, by the next day no one remembers him having ever existed, except for Douglas and the groundskeeper's son, Douglas awakens a horror hidden within the forest, unearthing secrets that have been buried...