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1. Frizzy
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Publisher:
First Second Books
Pub. Date:
©2022
Language:
English
Description:
"Marlene loves three things: art, her cool tÃa Ruby and hanging out with her best friend, Camila. But according to her mother, Paola, the only things she needs to focus on are school and growing up. That means straightening her hair every weekend so she can have 'presentable,' 'good' hair. But Marlene hates being in the salon and doesn't understand why her curls are not considered pretty by those around her. With a few hiccups, a dash of embarrassment,...
3. Manaos
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Publisher:
Creazioni Artistiche Musicali C.A.M. Srl (Una società del Gruppo Sugar)
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
4 Digital Media Ltd
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
Mike and Angie Jones are dealing with the hardships of caring for their sick child, when they discover that they are being hunted by a demon. They will do everything in their power to keep the demon away from Sophie and to make her safe.
8. Synth Utopia
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Publisher:
Creazioni Artistiche Musicali C.A.M. Srl
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
Italian
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Your basic Cinderella makeover story with a fresh and affectionate twist. Mia is a frizzy-haired, glasses-wearing 15-year-old girl whose two highest ambitions are to become invisible and to get a few kisses from an attractive school heartthrob. She is stunned and horrified when her coolly continental grandmother shows up and informs her that she's the crown princess of the European principality Genovia. Soon enough, Mia has to undertake "princess...
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Language:
English
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"A celebration of natural hair, from afros to cornrows and everything in between, My Hair is Beautiful is a joyful baby board book with a powerful message of self-love. Governor General's Award-nominated author Shauntay Grant brings her unique spoken-word style to this fun read-aloud, featuring minimalist text and vibrant photos of toddlers sporting fresh dos."--
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Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
"In this new collection of bite-size pop science essays, bestselling author, chemistry professor, and radio broadcaster Dr. Joe Schwarcz shows that you can find science virtually anywhere you look. And the closer you look, the more fascinating it becomes. In this volume, we look through our magnifying glass at maraschino cherries, frizzy hair, duct tape, pickle juice, yellow school buses, aphrodisiacs, dental implants, and bull testes. If those don't...
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Series:
Witchlings volume 3
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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Seven and Thorn still have not found a way to cure the hex that turned their friends into stone, magic seems to be working backwards, every new witchling at the Black Moon Ceremony is a spare--and the Hill Society blames the Spares and wants to prevent them from using magic.
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Pub. Date:
2012
Lexile measure:
680L
Language:
English
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Description:
Sixth grade is not going well for Calliope Meadow Anderson. Callie's hair is frizzy, her best friend, Ellen, is acting weird, and to top things off, she has to get glasses. And her new specs aren't even cute, trendy glasses--more like hideously large and geeky. But Callie soon discovers that her glasses have a special, magical perk...
14. Oscar & Lucinda
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Lexile measure:
1020L
Language:
English
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Description:
Oscar Hopkins is a high-strung preacher's kid with hydrophobia and noisy knees. Lucinda Leplastrier is a frizzy-haired heiress who impulsively buys a glass factory with the inheritance forced on her by a well-intentioned adviser. In the early parts of this lushly written book, author Peter Carey renders the seminal turning points in his protagonists' childhoods as exquisite 19th-century set pieces. Young Oscar, denied the heavenly fruit of a Christmas...
16. Zak's lunch
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Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 550L
Language:
English
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Rather than eat his boring old ham and cheese sandwich, Zak conjures up Lou, a waitress who serves him a delectable feast for the imagination.
17. Shifty business
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Series:
Adventures of Jo Schmo volume 3
Pub. Date:
2013
Lexile measure:
690L
Language:
English
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Description:
"Fourth-grade superhero Jo Schmo discovers a very unusual talent for shape-shifting as she and her dog Raymond try to stop a crime wave in San Francisco. Monsters and sharks and bad guys, oh my!"--
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Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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Description:
"Fanny Bullock Workman was a complicated and restless woman who defied the rigid Victorian morals she found as restrictive as a corset. With her frizzy brown hair tucked under a topee, Workman was a force on the mountain and off. Instrumental in breaking the British stranglehold on Himalayan mountain climbing, this American woman climbed more peaks than any of her peers, became the first woman to map the far reaches of the Himalayas, the first woman...
Author:
Publisher:
Mari Marigeaux
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
This book gives the right explanation on how to make your hair healthy and grow by natural means. The book covers how to care for frizzy hair. By using the methods in this book, breaking hair will be a thing of the past.It also covers different hair types, hair problems, hair styles, braiding techniques, hair straightening methods, oil treatments, hair washing methods, shampoos and hair origins.Every woman with frizzy hair can therefore proudly walk...
20. Saint training
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Publisher:
Zonderkidz
Language:
English
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Description:
During the turbulent 1960s, sixth-grader Mary Clare makes a deal with God: she will try to become a saint if He provides for her large, cash-strapped family.