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Publisher
Huron Street Press, an imprint of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Appropriate for adults who are completely new to signing, this authoritative guide on sign language helps them engage with children up to age five, regardless of their hearing ability. Each of the eight chapters contain a variety of activities, such as games, finger plays, songs, and crafts, which help children develop language learning, improve communication and self-expression, and raise their self-esteem. All vocabulary comes from American Sign...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Set in 1982, in rural, racially divided Ricksville, Mississippi Wade in the Water tells the story of Ella, a black, unloved, precocious eleven-year-old, and Ms. St. James, a mysterious white woman from Princeton who appears in Ella's community to carry out some research. Soon, Ms. St. James befriends Ella, who is willing to risk everything to keep her new friend in a town that does not want her there. The relationship between Ella and Ms. St. James,...
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From acclaimed New Zealand director Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok, What We Do in the Shadows) comes an award-winning new comedy. Julian Dennison stars as Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle (Sam Neil) in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together.
4) Moo
Author
Language
English
Description
When Reena, her little brother, Luke, and their parents first move to Maine, Reena doesn't know what to expect. She's ready for beaches, blueberries, and all the lobster she can eat. Instead, her parents "volunteer" Reena and Luke to work for an eccentric neighbor named Mrs. Falala, who has a pig named Paulie, a cat named China, a snake named Edna -- and that stubborn cow, Zora.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Every parent is capable of raising happy, healthy, and emotionally grounded children. Despite this, too many of us struggle along the journey. From the fast-changing realities of social media to the fear that permeates our culture, to the generational expectations that are unconsciously placed on children, the pressures on parents and children have reached a critical moment. We feel it and our children feel it. But there is a solution. With over...
Author
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • MAN BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Possession: a story that spans the Victorian era through World War I about a children’s author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the lives of her family and loved ones.
“Majestic ... Dazzling ... Wonderful.” —The San Francisco Chronicle
When children’s...
“Majestic ... Dazzling ... Wonderful.” —The San Francisco Chronicle
When children’s...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An inappropriate bond between the preadolescent daughter of a famous novelist and a rising 1970s London composer twenty years her senior intensifies into a predatory affair, in a tale told from three perspectives.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Speed and self-confidence, that's Astrid's motto. Nicknamed "the little thunderbolt, " she loves to spend her days racing down the hillside on her skis or sled, singing merrily as she goes, and drinking hot chocolate made from real chocolate bars with her grumpy best friend and godfather, Gunnvald. She just wishes there were other children to share in her hair-raising adventures. But her world is about to be turned upside down, first by the arrival...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Language
English
Formats
Description
Little John Marco is a keen observer of his world, but nobody--not his big brothers and sisters, not his parents, or his neighbors--listens to him; and only the fat orange cat in the front yard agrees with him that the tree in the yard is falling down.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
"Kevin McCallister is ... ready to turn the Big Apple into his own playground. ... The notorious Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv, still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are plotting a huge holiday heist. Kevin's ready to welcome them with a battery of booby traps that the bumbling bandits will never forget"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Clinical psychologist and parent-child relationship specialist Dr. Emily Kline offers a set of five easy-to-learn, clinically proven techniques to improve communication between young adults and their parents. Based in based a methodology known as Motivational Interviewing, these techniques focus on elucidating young people's own thoughts and motivations, rather than trying to impose parental views upon them"--
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Hollis Woods has been in so many foster homes she can hardly remember them all. She even runs away from the Regans, the one family who offers her a home. When Hollis is sent to Josie, an elderly artist who is quirky and affectionate, she wants to stay. But Josie is growing more forgetful every day. If Social Services finds out, they'll take Hollis away and move Josie into a home. Well, Hollis Woods won't let anyone separate them. She's escaped the...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Tash doesn't want to go to camp, doesn't want to spend the summer with a bunch of strangers, doesn't want to be separated from the only two people she has ever been able to count on: her uncle Kevin, who saved her from foster care, and Cap'n Jackie, who lives next door. Camp turns out to be pretty fun, actually, but when Tash returns home, Cap'n Jackie is gone. And Tash needs her -- the made-up stories of dolphin-dragons, the warm cookies that make...
15) Into the wind
Author
Publisher
One Elm Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Into the Wind is a middle-grade novel about the unlikely friendship between a boy and an elderly woman"--
16) The horizon: 1
Author
Publisher
Ize Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A world where everything has been lost. A boy and a girl alone together. All they can do is move forward. But against broken adults and devastating despair, how long will they be able to keep going ...?"--
18) The horizon: 2
Author
Publisher
Ize Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"There is good, and there is bad, and there is something that lies between. From there, the girl and the boy must move forward"--
19) The horizon: 3
Author
Publisher
Ize Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The boy and the girl walk on and on, past the desolate landscape and broken people, past their own trauma and grief. But all roads must come to an end. What awaits them at the conclusion of their journey?"--Back cover.
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