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341) Spit three times
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Guido and his pals Moreno and Katango are rebels without a cause living in a rural town of the Po Valley, a forsaken corner of the Italian countryside turned peripheral wasteland. Disaffected students of the local vocational high school, they spend their days trying to get high as a way to forget about the bleak hopelessness around them. As children, they enjoyed being the sons of rural folks and the country seemed to them a never-ending reservoir...
343) Ice-out
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1920s Minnesota, life is hard for nineteen-year-old Owen Jensen and his family after their father dies but gets considerably worse when Owen becomes involved in the deaths of a sheriff and deputy.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the mind that brought us The Odd 1s Out, Oddballs creator James Rallison is back with five brand new stories from the popular Netflix animated show! Join James, Max, Echo, and all of your favorite Oddballs characters as they get into epic amounts of preventable trouble. In these five exclusive mini stories, James grows sentient bacteria in his mouth, sells his yard, turns the whole town into ASMR zombies, enrages several birthday girls, and...
Author
Series
Kingdom of Wrenly volume 5
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mischief-makers Prince Lucas, his best friend Clara, and Ruskin the scarlet dragon learn to respect the hard work of others when they are sent to Flatfrost to fetch more ice from the giants who live there.
346) The chaperone
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Society matron Norma Carlisle volunteers to accompany future Jazz Age star and free spirit Louise Brooks for a summer in New York. But why does she want to go? It's a story full of surprises, about who these women really are, and who they eventually become.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents' lives-or so he was told. In Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald, with warmth and humor, recounts his ongoing search for forgiveness, a more far-reaching vision of masculinity, and a more expansive definition of family and self. Fitzgerald's memoir-in-essays...
Author
Publisher
Aspen Light Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In a small cafe at a location so remote it stands in the middle of the middle of nowhere, John--a man in a hurry--is at a crossroads. Intent only on refueling before moving along on his road trip, he finds sustenance of an entirely different kind. In addition to the specials of the day, the cafe menu lists three questions all diners are encouraged to consider: Why are you here? Do you fear death? Are you fulfilled? With this food for thought and the...
350) Big Nate: Aloha!
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Aloha can mean hello or goodbye--which makes it the perfect word for sixth grader Nate Wright. Why? Because Nate doesn't know whether he's coming or going. Will his romance with Daisy sizzle or fizzle? Will his hair survive Teddy's cut-rate barber skills? And when Nate spots a crime in progress at Klassic Komix, can he find his inner superhero?"--
Author
Publisher
Seal Press, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Mothers aren't supposed to be angry. Still, Minna Dubin was an angry mom: exhausted by hard, thankless full-time parenting work and feeling her career slip away from her, she would find herself screaming at her child or exploding in anger at her husband. Despite the pressure she felt to suffer in silence, Minna chose to talk publicly about her experiences, kicking off an international conversation about a rage that, it turns out, nearly every mother...
Author
Series
Communicate with confidence volume no. 2
Publisher
Boys Town Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Decibella loves to be loud. Maybe that's why her name is Decibella? She shouts every time she answers a question, offers an opinion, shares a thought, or makes a request ... She doesn't realize different environments and situations sometimes demand a softer, quieter voice. That is until a caring teacher introduces her to the silly-sounding word "Slurpadoodle" and the five volumes of voice (Whisper, 6-inch, Table Talk, Strong Speaker, and Outside)....
357) School day
Author
Series
Publisher
Elon Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Danny is a real-life superhero in training, learning about his most important superpower of all: 'the power to choose.' In this [book], ... you decide how Danny's school day will end by making choices for him"--Back cover.
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