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Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
There are plenty of ways that kids can beautify and improve their communities. This helpful book offers simple things kids can do to help others, whether by joining local groups, organizing friends and family members, or by taking individual action. The volume also provides ways that kids can learn more and share their newfound knowledge with others.
302) À chacun son masque
Author
Publisher
Québec Amérique
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
"Il y a une foule de raisons de porter un masque: par sécurité, pour respirer sous leau, pour se déguiser ou même tout simplement parce que ça pue! Les plongeurs, les cowboys, les scientifiques et plein dautres gens ont besoin de masques. Et parfois, couvrir sa bouche, cest faire preuve de bonté et de considération à légard dautrui.Porter un masque, cest montrer que lon se soucie des autres.Arguments (statistiques, angles ou éléments particuliers)-bon...
303) Ruby's imagine
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Hurricane Katrina from the point of view of Ruby, an unusually intuitive girl who lives with her grandmother in New Orleans but has powerful memories of an earlier life in the swamps.
304) La casa de algún día
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"A little boy promises his beloved friend, an elderly lady, that one day he will fix up her old house--and his words inspire the other people in the neighborhood to pitch in and get it done."--
307) The sittin' up
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (Usa)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"When the patriarch of twelve-year-old Bean's sharecropping community dies, Bean gets a lesson in not only what it means to lose someone you love, but also in how his family and friends care for their dead"--
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"One woman fights to hold on to her friends, her family, and all that she holds dear as the battle over a Confederate statue divides her small-town Georgia community in this powerful novel from the author of The Sweet Taste of Muscadines. On the morning after Harry Cline's funeral, a rare ice storm hits the town of Wesleyan, Georgia. The community wakes up to find its controversial statue of Confederate general Henry Benning destroyed-and not by the...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In small-town Missouri in tumultuous 1963, Tree Taylor, thirteen, wants to write an important story to secure a spot on the high school newspaper staff, but when a neighbor is shot, she investigates and learns that some secrets should be kept.
312) Osprey Island
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Returning to her island home community, Suzy Chizek explores her lingering feelings for Vietnam veteran Roddy Jacobs, a time that is marked by a tragic fire and the rescue of a young boy from his alcoholic father.
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In 1954, when mine closings bring an economic crisis to Way Down Deep, West Virginia, foundling Ruby Jolene Hurley makes a thirteenth-birthday wish to find the treasure rumored to have been buried by one of the town's founders." --
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Rampant crime and government ineptitude continue to cripple the city's recovery, with outside profiteers looking to cash in on short-term gains. The series' focus is still on ordinary people, but they no longer accept their lack of influence on the institutions that have controlled the city." --
316) The magic of dreams!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When Asha, in a moment of desperation, makes a wish, it is answered by a little ball of boundless energy called Star who helps her save her community and prove that anything is possible if you just believe.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stackpole Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
More than 8.5 million people visit Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, every year to experience the culture of the oldest Amish community in the world. This book by the leading scholar of the Amish explains the uncommon lifestyle of these simple-living people who intrigue so many visitors. Mini essays on all aspects of Amish life, from dress and spirituality to horse-and-buggy transport, are accompanied by beautiful full-color photographs. The author...
320) Pig Park
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Masi Burciaga's barrio becomes more like a ghost town every day, but when she and other youths are recruited to erect a giant pyramid in hopes of attracting tourists, she wonders about the entrepreneur behind the scheme--and his attractive son.
