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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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A perfect gift for new parents, with delightful illustrations from award-winning artist Juana Medina, Cheryl B. Klein's picture book "It's Hard to Be a Baby" is a hilarious and heartwarming read-aloud celebrating the challenges, changes, and cheers that come with being a baby Hey there, babies. I hear you. Everyone thinks your lives are easy. But you and I know the truth... It's hard to be a baby! You're always being picked up and put down. You have...
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Publisher:
National Center for Youth Issues
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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Being a verb is hard! Especially for Louis, who can't seem to control himself, when he gets the urge to move at the wrong time and situation. Louis' mom comes to the rescue by teaching him techniques to help keep his inner itching, twitching and jumping to be a verb in check. A positive resource for anyone dealing with ADHD or challenged by someone who has ADHD.
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Lexile measure:
520L
Language:
English
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Carmen is a star dribbler for the Victory basketball team. She never loses control of the ball. But when she decides to try out for soccer, she learns that handling a soccer ball doesn't come nearly as easy. After Carmen hears some other girls talking about her, she feels awful. She just didn't realize that it's hard to dribble with your feet.
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Language:
English
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Most sales training programs offer the same old pointers: Always be closing, keep it simple, stupid, and ask for referrals. You know these clichés. Selling is So Easy, it's Hard is the first program to focus on the 77 correctable selling mistakes that novices and veterans make. Without conscious awareness, these errors, snafus, miscues, and blunders keep the typical seller from earning at least 25% more business. This translates into millions of...
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Sixth & Spring
Pub. Date:
[2010]
Language:
English
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Fifteen original designs include everything from teeny garments for premature babies and sporty jumpers to special occasion outfits and accessories - and every one showcases Debbie's signature style. In addition, she leads readers through the entire process: size and shaping, yarn selection, colour and pattern, and embellishments. A designer's workbook, with knitters' graph paper, templates, and a stitch gauge, rounds out this indispensable guide....
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Publisher:
Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Times were hard in the 1940s and early '50s: kids went hungry and food was rationed, some families had to beg, steal or borrow to survive. But Charlie found his own way out. On a routine basis, together with his childhood gang, they became kid grafters (bang into crime). They did what they had to do, providing food to put on their family's table amongst other things. In 1953, aged 13, Charlie and his gang were always bunking off school. He went on...
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Publisher:
Castle Quay Books
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
It's Hard Not to Stare is the second book unpacking StreetLevel's children's Compassion Series. The material encourages children to look at their world through the lens of compassion and understanding, rather than assumption, judgment, or fear. Tim believes this approach will impact the way we care for, and befriend, people in our communities and beyond, and that when we nurture compassion in a child in one area of life, the potential is greater that...
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Publisher:
Michaela Ryanne
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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Auden Tate is a quiet girl entering her freshman year of college. Her plan is to focus on herself, school, and making new friends. After her past relationship traumatized her, she has no interest in dating and makes that clear to everyone. However, when she meets Sophmore Linc Stephens-Black, she wonders if never dating again is possible. Lincoln Stephens-Black (Linc) is living life to its fullest. He is the son of the dean, he sleeps with whom he...
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Publisher:
Trilogy Christian Publishing
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
If something is hard, does that mean God is not in it? Someone once told me, "Doing the will of God is like a hot knife through butter." I'm not sure what Bible they were reading, but that hasn't been my Christian experience for half a century. Unfortunately, much of what is preached from today's pulpits, emphasizes all the benefits that are ours as believers without mentioning the cost involved. In advertising, we call this, "Giving them the streets...
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Publisher:
INDIA CAFE
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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He was a Muslim boy. She was a Hindu girl. Both were raised in traditional, conservative families. Separated by centuries of cultural and religious animosities, they might as well have been living on two different planets. When their worlds collided, it was the beginning of a journey that took them to the brink of despair yet, they found within themselves new meaning and a will to survive. Set in rural Kerala, India, in the 1950s, the novel strives...
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Publisher:
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date:
2021
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 510L
Language:
English
Description:
Sometimes being nice means being patient with your little brother who doesn't know how to treat your favorite things. Being nice can mean going to your sister's boring dance recital. Or tasting a tuna noodle casserole your grandma made-when you can't stand tuna noodle casserole. Being nice takes practice, and that's okay. You just keep trying, and soon you discover how GREAT it feels... to be nice!