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Seen through the diary of Jacob, an Amish farmer trying to protect his family and his way of life, the book examines the idea of peace in the face of deadly chaos when an Amish community in Pennsylvania is caught up in the devastating aftermath of a catastrophic solar storm and the subsequent collapse of modern civilization.
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[2021]
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Español
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"Iris Colarradiante vive en el Bosque Destellos junto a montones de otras criaturas mágicas. Iris y los otros unicornios estudian a los dragones en la escuela, pero nunca han visto uno. Es decir, ¡hasta ahora! En la escuela se pierden una manta y un par de gafas, ¡y las pistas los llevan a las cuevas de los dragones! ¿Encontrarán Iris y sus amigos una terrorífica criatura allí o harán un nuevo amigo?"--Amazon.
Rainbow Tinseltail (called...
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[2023]
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Priya is planning a henna night for teenagers. She is excited--but nervous! What do teenagers like?! Priya struggles to come up with a party theme. But once she does, she makes decorations that are out of this world! Will Priya's henna-night party be as awesome as the pangolins it's going to help?
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[2013]
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Kiki and her best friends, Coco and Lulu, all live on Lotus Lane, attend Amber Acres Elementary School, and have their own club, so when a when a Japanese girl named Mika moves in next door and also chooses fashion design for her art project, Kiki is seriously annoyed.
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"9 March 1876 My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of...
48) Ava XOX
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Ava realizes she is not ok with another girl interested in her friend Chuck, and she also wants to help Pip's friend Jayda find her inner confidence, but a misstep leads to backlash, and Ava discovers that words can be powerful instigators.
49) Ruffing it
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2021.
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Excitedly accompanying his human family on a camping vacation in the woods, canine Junior happily chases raccoons, fetches sticks and doggy-paddles in the lake, before an obedience-obsessed human arrives and spoils his fun.
52) The nature club
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[2023]
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When Mrs. Featherbottom places Eva in a different club from Lucy and Hailey, Eva misses her best friends, but she learns new things about her classmates, and discovers that someone in her club is missing a friend too.
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"After a disastrous field day competition at school, Greg decides that when it comes to his athletic career, he's officially retired. But after his mom urges him to give sports one more chance, he reluctantly agrees to sign up for basketball. Tryouts are a mess, and Greg is sure he won't make the cut. But he unexpectedly lands a spot on the worst team. As Greg and his new teammates start the season, their chances of winning even a single game look...
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2021.
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"Strongheart is the final installment to the One Thousand White Women trilogy, a novel about fierce women who are full of heart and the power to survive. In 1873, a Cheyenne chief offers President Grant the opportunity to exchange one thousand horses for one thousand white women, in order to marry them with his warriors and create a lasting peace. These women, "recruited" by force in the penitentiaries and asylums of the country, gradually integrate...
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2019.
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Eva Wingdale and her class are excited about their trip to Poppy's Pumpkin Farm, where every year, there is one very large, extra special, thank-you pumpkin; but on the second day of the visit the owls find that the Thank-you Pumpkin has gone missing, and the farm animals are in an uproar -- so Eva and the other owls turn detective to solve the mystery of the missing pumpkin.
57) Twerp
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c2013
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In Queens, New York, in 1969, twelve-year-old Julian Twerski writes a journal for his English teacher in which he explores his friendships and how they are effected by girls, a new student who may be as fast as Julian, and especially an incident of bullying.
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[2013]
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Coco, one of the Lotus Lane Girls, loves cooking and animals, so when the club decides to plant a vegetable garden to help save snails, organizing a cupcake sale is an obvious idea--but Mika, the new girl next door, is still an unresolved problem. Includes cupcake recipe.
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2013
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It is 1871 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose, still grieving from the death of her parents, takes her brother Gideon, who has Down syndrome, escapes from her uncle and aunt, taking a train to Chicago--but disaster seems to follow her there.
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