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1103) Melvin the Mouth
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Melvin the Mouth can not resist making a variety of strange noises as he imagines himself as a dragon, a shark, or perhaps a train--but his talent gets him into trouble at school.
1104) The art of being normal
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
David Piper has always been an outsider. His parents think he's gay. The school bully thinks he's a freak. Only his two best friends know the real truth: David wants to be a girl. On the first day at his new school Leo Denton has one goal: to be invisible. Attracting the attention of the most beautiful girl in his class is definitely not part of that plan. When Leo stands up for David in a fight, an unlikely friendship forms. But things are about...
1106) Diagnosing the legacy: the discovery, research, and treatment of type 2 diabetes in indigenous youth
Author
Publisher
University of Manitoba Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
In her first work of nonfiction, winner of the 2018 UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize Dina Nayeri--an author whose "exploration of the exile's predicament is tender and urgent" (The New Yorker)--examines what it means to be a refugee through her own story of childhood escape from Iran, and through the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers.
What is it like to be a refugee? It is a question many of us do not give much thought to, and...
1110) Older brother
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Older Brother is the poignant story of a Franco-Syrian family whose father and two sons try to integrate themselves into a society that doesn't offer them many opportunities. The father, an atheist communist who moved from Syria to France for his studies and stayed for love, has worked for decades driving a taxi to support his family. The eldest son is a driver for an app-based car service, which comically puts him at odds with his father, whose...
1111) Salaam Bombay!
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
Hindi
Description
Krisha, a ten year old boy, has been abandoned in Bombay by his mother. He tries to earn money to go home while he lives in the streets.
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it"--
McAnulty chronicles the turning of a year in his Northern Ireland home patch. Beginning in spring, these diary entries about his connection to wildlife and the way he sees the world are vivid, evocative, and moving. He also captures his perspective as a teenager juggling...
1113) The children return
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When an undercover agent tracking domestic jihadists is found murdered, it's troubling enough for Bruno's beloved village. But when this is followed by the return of Sami, a local autistic youth thought lost to Islamic extremism, provincial St. Denis suddenly becomes a front line in the global war on terror"--Dust jacket flap.
1114) Denise Austin's Fitkids
Publisher
Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Denise uses elements of dance, hip-hop, sports drills, yoga and stretching in a workout that is uniquely made for kids to keep moving, have fun and stay healthy. Twelve boys and girls move to the beat of modern music with fun steps that make and exercise routine that is so fun they'll want to do it over and over again.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Dissertation (Ph.D.) -- Prescott College, 2010
Self-awareness, cultural competency, environmental consciousness, and economic empathy are often achieved through study abroad travel experiences. This phenomenological study was intended to shed light on the inter'national backpacking study abroad experiences for college students, describing the phenomenon from the perspective of the participants and its meaning for those participants. The literature...
1119) Eleanor
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 810L
Language
English
Description
Presents the childhood of Eleanor Roosevelt, who married a president of the United States and became known as a great humanitarian.
