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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Oggie Cooder : Quirky fourth-grader Oggie Cooder goes from being shunned to everyone's best friend when his uncanny ability to chew slices of cheese into the shapes of states wins him a slot on a popular television talent show, but he soon learns the perils of being a celebrity--and having a neighbor girl as his manager.
Oggie Cooder, party animal : Neither a long list of rules, nor the inability to find the perfect gift--Cheddar Jam--nor being locked...
Author
Publisher
North Point Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In Jamaica Plain, an unassuming neighborhood in Boston, we meet extraordinary individuals, including the protector of a local park, a master framer, an urban gardener, and a corporate lawyer turned community advocate. They become Kathleen Hirsch's guides, and ours, revealing the ancient truth that living well in community is as much about the personal choices we make to work, play, and associate in certain ways, as it is about the grassroots connections...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
"This book explores the lives, deaths, enemies, and victims of the most powerful guerrillas of twentieth-century Ireland: those of the Cork I.R.A. between 1916 and 1923. Drawing on an unprecedented body of sources, including numerous interviews this is a uniquely intimate study of revolution, guerrilla war, and ethnic conflict." --
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When Littletown Library is destroyed by a tornado, it seems like book-loving Nia is the only one who cares; so she starts the "new free library" under the tree where she used to read, and writes out familiar stories and rhymes that are just a little bit wrong, and encourages the people who check them out to correct them--until soon the whole of Littletown is filled with people reading and writing books."--
325) Kings Row
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1940.
Language
English
Description
The novel exposes the hypocrisy of small-town life in the midwest, addressing many social taboos. Research suggested that Bellamann was working off resentment of his upbringing in Fulton, Missouri, where he had been ostracised for his German extraction and rumoured illegitimacy.
Publisher
Home Box Office, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
New Orleans, 38 months after. The city's musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and others continue to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. But the promise of recovery, heightened by the historic election of a new president, is tempered by sobering economics, continued police corruption, and the ongoing specter of violence and crime. In these five final episodes of Treme, New Orleans' protagonists strive to build their own legacy...
Author
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Although Boston today is a vibrant and thriving city, it was anything but that in the years following World War II. By 1950 it had lost a quarter of its tax base over the previous twenty-five years, and during the 1950s it would lose residents faster than any other major city in the country. Credit for the city's turnaround since that time is often given to a select group of people, all of them men, all of them white, and most of them well off. In...
329) The Harlem charade
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Seventh-graders Jin, Alexandra, and Elvin come from very different backgrounds and circumstances, but they all live in Harlem, and when Elvin's grandfather is attacked they band together to find out who is responsible--and the search leads them to an enigmatic artist whose missing masterpieces are worth a fortune, and into conflict with an ambitious politician who wants to turn Harlem into an historic amusement park.
331) Every moment after
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven years ago a shooting rocked the small town of East Ridge, New Jersey and left eighteen first graders dead. Newly graduated, Matt Simpson and Cole Hewitt are still navigating their guilt, especially the absence of their friend Andy. Cole is "the boy in the picture" but remembers nothing about the shooting; Matt was absent that day. Will Cole and Matt ever be able to truly leave the ghosts of East Ridge behind, and move into a future where they...
334) Civismo
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids Junior es una subdivisión de Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Simple text and color photographs introduce young readers to citizenship.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"While true-crime afficionado Ellery and her twin brother are staying with their grandmother in a Vermont community known for murder, a new friend goes missing and Ellery may be next." --
"Ellery es nueva en Echo Ridges, pero ya lo sabe todo sobre el pueblo. Aquí, a veces, las chicas desaparecen... y sus asesinatos siguen sin resolverse. Aunque las clases no han empezado aún, la futura reina del baile ha sido amenazada y una chica ha desaparecido...
336) Community workers
Author
Publisher
Britannica Educational Publishing in association with The Rosen Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In this volume, readers explore the many workers and volunteers who come together to ensure a community is successful. The accessible text describes what community workers do and how they help others. Essential roles covered include police officers, firefighters, doctors, teachers, government leaders, and others. Readers discover how these people work to make a community a healthy, safe, and clean place for everyone who lives there. Critical-thinking...
337) Big Eden
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A successful but lonely New York artist returns to Montana after years away to care for his ailing grandfather and discovers new possibilities for friendship and romance.
Author
Publisher
Walter Foster Jr., an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Be the Change! gives you the tools and encouragement needed to be the change you wish to see in the world. From the popular founders of Hello!Lucky stationery, this guidebook offers instruction and guidance to spark creativity and inspire action in your local communities. First learn how to get inspired and how to inspire others, as well as the importance of embracing diverse perspectives and how to handle conflict diplomatically. Then discover how...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.
