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Series
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Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Elise Mackenzie is committed to making the Furever Paws fundraiser a huge success. She's even roped in her landlord and new boss, Harris Vega, for help. But spending so much time with Harris, especially around an adorable puppy named Pancake, is giving the usually shy Elise ideas she shouldn't be having. Could a man like Harris really think twice about a woman more comfortable with flour on her face than lipstick?
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Macy's little sister has wings that are too small, so Eva's class decides to raise money to buy her a flying chair, and half the class opens a bakery, and the other half opens a candy store--but soon competition between the two stores becomes more important than their goal, and Eva needs to convince the other owls that they will collect more money if everyone works as a team.
Author
Series
Sadiq volume 8
Language
English
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As Ramadan nears, Sadiq and his friends form the Money Makers Club to plan a community fundraiser, an iftar, but when Zaza stops participating, Sadiq gets upset with him.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Joseph Pulitzer first saw the Statue of Liberty's head in Paris, he shared sculptor Auguste Bartholdi's dream of seeing France's gift of friendship stand in the New York harbor. Pulitzer loved words, and the word he loved best was liberty. Frustrated that many, especially wealthy New Yorkers, were not interested in paying for the statue's needed pedestal, Pulitzer used his newspaper, the New York World, to call on all Americans to contribute....
45) The big reveal
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Addie is a talented dancer, a true-blue friend, and a fat, fierce, and driven young woman. When she's accepted into the prestigious dance company of her dreams, she thinks nothing can bring her down-- until she realizes she doesn't have enough money to go. Refusing to give up, Addie and her friends decide to put on a top-secret, invitation-only burlesque show to raise funds. But word soon gets out, and the slut- and body-shaming begin. Has Addie...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Thanks to an accidental phone swap, two adorable rescue pups, and a coffeehouse clash, a holiday flirtation goes to the dogs and hilarity ensues, from New York Times bestselling author Julia London. All Harper Thompson wants for Christmas is the huge promotion she's worked so hard for--which she should get, as long as her launch of the hip new coffeehouse, Deja Brew, goes according to plan. Jonah Rogers is trying to save his family's coffee shop,...
Author
Series
Sarai volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Están recortando fondos en la escuela de Saraí y la banda de música dejará de existir. Por supuesto, Saraí no está de acuerdo con esto. Decide organizar un concierto para recaudar fondos y, para promoverlo, ella y sus compañeros crean un video que ponen en Internet. ¡El video atrae la atención de Sparkles Sánchez! ¿Podrá Saraí salvar el programa de música de la escuela?"--
48) Our secret society: Mollie Moon and the glamour, money, and power behind the civil rights movement
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Ford illuminates the powerhouse fund-raising effort that supported the Civil Rights Movement: luncheons, galas, card parties and traveling exhibitions attended by middle-class and working class Black families, the Negro press, and titans of industry. Mollie Moon lived abroad in the 1930s but came home to fight against Jim Crow segregation in the United States. With her husband Henry Lee Moon, Mollie became half of one of the most influential couples...
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
High school biology teacher Scott Voss is desperate to save the music program at his cash-strapped school. Learning that fighting in MMA matches provides a pretty nice payout, Voss decides to put his former collegiate wrestling skills to the test and climb into the octagon. Unfortunately, Voss has been out of college for about 20 years. Does he have what it takes to beat the best and earn the cash the school desperately needs?
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Written by two expert authors who have won secured millions of dollars in government and foundation grants, The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need is the classic book on grant seeking, providing a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for government, nonprofit, and individual grant seekers. Drawing on decades of experience in grant writing and professional development, Ellen Karsh and Arlen Sue Fox demystify the process of securing grants while...
Author
Series
(Sharon Mills).Clubhouse mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2012, ©2006
Language
English
Description
After rescuing an orphaned deer, Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs club members decide to stage a neighborhood animal show to raise money for the local wildlife rescue center.
52) Haunted hibiscus
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Tea maven Theodosia Browning brews up trouble in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. It is the week before Halloween and Theodosia Browning, proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop, and her tea sommelier, Drayton, are ghosting through the dusk of a cool Charleston evening on their way to the old Bouchard Mansion. Known as the Gray Ghost, this dilapidated place was recently bequeathed to the Heritage Society,...
Author
Series
Dear dumb diary volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Jamie Kelly shares with her diary her search for inner beauty, dealing with fund raising, and problems in Phys ed class.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Provocative and bracing, Unborn in the USA provides a riveting look into the deep secrets and deep pockets of the pro-life movement. Traveling across 35 states, the filmmakers are granted unprecedented access to pro-life groups, movement icons, fund-raising machines, and even into classes where university students are being groomed to carry empathetic, pro-life messages to campuses around the country. More than 70 exclusive interviews are interwoven...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Profiles forty-five children around the world who are taking steps to help the environment through fund-raising, public demonstrations, and creating activist art, and includes suggestions on how readers can get involved.
57) Everyday Heroes
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Everyday Heroes explores the rewards and the potential difficulties, on both a personal and program level, of national and community service and of service-learning. It provides a stimulating launching-point for discussion about civic engagement and youth leadership development. Issues of race and diversity permeate every scene, with the impassioned voices of the service providers "talking across differences." Everyday Heroes is an excellent resource...
58) Freedom Bound
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Freedom Bound tells the story of the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee's voter registration campaign in Mississippi in 1963. Amzie Moore, an NAACP leader in Cleveland, Mississippi, led Richards through the Mississippi delta voter registration campaign, setting up interviews with share croppers, student activists, students and others in the struggle for freedom and the right to vote. Freedom Bound contains unique footage of share croppers...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On New Year?s Eve, 1939, a horrific triple murder occurred in rural Oklahoma. Within a matter of days, investigators identified the killers: convicts on work release who had been at a craps game with one of the victims the night before. As anger at authorities grew, political pressure mounted to find a scapegoat. The governor's representative settled on a young black farmhand named W.D. Lyons. Lyons was arrested, tortured into signing a confession,...
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