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Fourteen-year-old Dan Cereill's life is turned upside-down when his father announces he is gay and leaves Dan and his mother with nothing, forcing them to move to an aunt's house, Dan to enroll in public school, and his mother to try to start a business, but the top thing on Dan's list is kissing Estelle, the girl next door.
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Sourcebooks
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[2022]
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"Expand your reading list and stand against literary censorship with this one-year reading challenge and book journal! Featuring 52 modern and classic books that have been challenged or banned, from The Hunger Games to Maus, this book log includes ALA's insights into each title as well as writing prompts for further reflection. A perfect holiday stocking stuffer, birthday present, or gift for bibliophiles, librarians, teachers and educators, activists,...
24) Birnam Wood
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"Birnam Wood is on the move . . . A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand's South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, an undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. For years, the group has struggled to break even. To occupy the farm...
28) Elinor ṿe-Parḳ
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Maṭar
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2015
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עברית
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Two misfits. One extraordinary love. Eleanor -- Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough -- Eleanor. Park -- He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises...
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"From the author of the runaway bestseller The Orphan's Tale comes a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female secret agents during World War II.1946, Manhattan. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs--each...
30) Eleanor y Park
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ALFAGUARA INFANTILES Y JUVENILES
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2013
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Español
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Para todos aquellos que quedaron fascinados por Las ventajas de ser un marginado.
Una historia de amor entre dos outsiders lo bastante inteligentes como para saber que el primer amor nunca es para siempre, pero lo suficientemente valientes como para intentarlo.
-Bono conoció a la que seríasu mujer en el instituto -dijo Park.
-Sí, y también Jerry Lee Lewis -contestó Eleanor. -No estoy bromeando. -Pues deberías. Tenemos16 años -dijo Eleanor.
-¿Y...
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One rainy morning in June, two years after the end of World War II, a minor traffic accident brings together Eleanor Moskowitz and Patricia Bellamy. Their encounter seems fated: Eleanor, a teacher and recent Vassar graduate, needs a job. Patricia's difficult thirteen-year-old daughter Margaux, recovering from polio, needs a private tutor. Though she feels out of place in the Bellamys' rarefied and elegant Park Avenue milieu, Eleanor forms an instant...
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On his first visit to the mouse amusement park, Albert claims he is not afraid, he simply does not like rides that go up and down, left and right, or around and around, but things change when he and his sister Wanda accidentally ride the roller coaster.
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Ready to see the world? Twenty-one countries, Seven continents. A trip of a lifetime.Eleanor's Travels is the second book in the Love and Friendship trilogy. Eleanor James embarks on a year long journey hoping to be inspired for her next big movie role. She has set her heart to see twenty-one countries at the tender age of twenty-one. What will she find? Adventure? Awe-inspiring places? Amazing people? Will she also find love?In the first book, My...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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"As Great Britain faces an imminent war with Germany, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt ... and his wife, Eleanor ... , invite the King and Queen of England for a weekend at their home in upstate New York. But during the first-ever visit of a reigning British monarch to America, international affairs must be juggled with the complexities of FDR's domestic establishment, as wife, mother, and mistresses all conspire to make the royal trip an unforgettable...
35) Eleanor e Park
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Saida De Emergência
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2015
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Portuguese
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Dois inadaptados. Um amor extraordinário. Eleanor é uma miúda nova na escola, vinda de outra cidade. A sua vida familiar é um caos; sendo gorda e ruiva, e com a sua forma esquisita de se vestir, atrai a atenção de todos em seu redor, nem sempre pelos melhores motivos. Park é um rapaz meio coreano. Não é propriamente popular, mas vestido de negro e sempre isolado na música através dos seus fones e livros, conseguiu tornar-se invisível....
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The Three Graces of Val-Kill changes the way we think about Eleanor Roosevelt. Emily Wilson examines what she calls the most formative period in Roosevelt's life, from 1922 to 1936, when she cultivated an intimate friendship with Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook, who helped her build a cottage on the Val-Kill Creek in Hyde Park on the Roosevelt family land. In the early years, the three women--the "three graces," as Franklin Delano Roosevelt called...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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A conservationist who has dedicated her life to saving orphan elephants in Africa describes her relationships with her late husband, Tsavo Park warden David Sheldrick, and a host of animals, including the majestic elephant, Eleanor.
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These simple, clear biographies of remarkable women provide an excellent starting point for children beginning history studies. In A Picture Book of Eleanor Roosevelt, highlights of the life of the woman known as the "First Lady of the World" provide a fascinating glimpse into her background as well as the history of her times. Her contributions to the American people, her kindness, leadership, and determination are dramatically presented in this...
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Brad Meltzer brings together the stories of fifty-five remarkable individuals, from intellectual explorers such as Marie Curie, Sally Ride, and Jane Goodall to cultural champions like Billie Jean King; from implacable public figures such as Rosa Parks and Winston Churchill to artistic icons such as Leonardo da Vinci and Stevie Wonder; and beyond.
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