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1. Lift
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Publisher:
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date:
2020
Lexile measure:
390L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
From the award-winning and bestselling creators of Drawn Together comes the fantastic tale of a magical elevator that will lift your spirits--and press all the right buttons! Iris loves to push the elevator buttons in her apartment building, but when it's time to share the fun with a new member of the family, she's pretty put out. That is, until the sudden appearance of a mysterious new button opens up entire realms of possibility, places where she...
2. Lift off
Author:
Series:
Pea Bee and Jay volume 3
Publisher:
Harper Alley
Pub. Date:
[2021]
Language:
English
Description:
"Jay the blue jay has never learned to fly, which has never been a problem . . . until a crew of super cool birds touch down at the farm and invite him to play some super cool flying games. Now Jay needs to figure out how to fly--and fast--before he misses out on all the fun. Lucky for him, his best buds Pea and Bee know just what to do."--Provided by publisher.
3. Lift
Author:
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
Formats:
Description:
No matter when and why this comes to your hands, I want to put down on paper how things started with us. Written as a letter to her children, Kelly Corrigan's Lift is a tender, intimate, and robust portrait of risk and love; a touchstone for anyone who wants to live more fully. In Lift, Corrigan weaves together three true and unforgettable stories of adults willing to experience emotional hazards in exchange for the gratifications of raising children....
Author:
Publisher:
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date:
©2021
Language:
English
Description:
The Ars Technica senior space editor chronicles the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX, describing how, after three failed attempts, the fourth flight helped transform SpaceX from a shaky startup into the world's leading edge rocket company.
Less than 20 years after its founding, SpaceX boasts the largest constellation of commercial satellites in orbit, has pioneered reusable rockets, and in 2020 became the first private company to...
7. LIFT
Author:
Publisher:
Author's Republic
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
LIFT is a playful introduction to flying machines from the late 1800's and the inspiring people who designed, built, launched, and crashed them. It is also a serious guide to innovation for 21st century problem solvers. Blending light-hearted pop culture whimsy with well-grounded engineering pragmatism, LIFT introduces five inventors who tackled the seemingly impossible challenge of human flight decades before Orville and Wilbur. These stories are...
8. Lift
Author:
Publisher:
Greenleaf Book Group
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Transformational leaders will leverage positive change In a world of explosive change and transformation, leaders at all levels-from heads of state and global corporations to entrepreneurs and gig economists-will offer the best opportunity for leveraging change and transforming our lives for the better. This includes how we work, play, govern ourselves, and consider and plan for our collective futures. In Lift, Faisal Hoque-noted thought leader; serial...
Author:
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date:
[2016]
Lexile measure:
300L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Little Blue Truck and his friend Toad pick up their animal friends for a Halloween costume party and attempt to guess the identities of the dressed-up passengers, in a story complemented by interactive lift-flaps.
Author:
Series:
Pub. Date:
2018
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 370L
Language:
English
Formats:
Description:
Little Blue Truck and his friend Toad take a scenic drive on a spring day and see such new sights as a sheep and her lambs, a duck and her ducklings, and a cow and her calf in a story complemented by interactive lift-flaps.
13. Lift Off!
Author:
Series:
Fire and Flight volume 1
Publisher:
Scribl
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Formats:
Description:
Lift Off is the ultimate game - a game of strength, speed, strategy, and teamwork! After several intense competitions, a seventh grader, Kyle, earns a position on the Guardian's Lift Off team. Now Kyle and five other students will go head to head with six members of their rival school, the Protector Academy. Sometimes they will be able to use their supernatural powers. For other contests, they must relay on their non-Enhanced physical and mental skills....
Author:
Series:
Publisher:
Usborne
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Get kids talking about feelings, and discover practical ways to deal with them. Why can't I be happy all the time? What can I do when I feel like exploding? Is it ok to give up? This book is packed full of tips, tools and everyday situations to help kids think about and answer these BIG questions for themselves.
Author:
Publisher:
Post Hill Press
Language:
English
Formats:
Description:
Angela Harrelson, George Floyd's aunt and closest relative, tells the behind-the-scenes story of George's family--how he lived and why he died--and how the world can find a solution to racism through his death. This is the story of Angela's lifelong relationship with George Floyd--whom the family called Perry--and how, after being suddenly thrust into the spotlight, she went on a quest to make sure her nephew did not die in vain. It's a story of tragic...
Author:
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
"Anya Liftig grew up with her feet in two very different worlds. While her mother's upbringing was so rural that the other kids called her "holler rat," her father came from a comfortable, upper-middle-class Jewish family. Anya spent her childhood school years in Connecticut and her summers in the holler. Shaped by the experience, she would go on to win a scholarship to Yale and become an acclaimed artist, using provocative performances to explore...
Author:
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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Description:
If music is a universal language, and mathematics a universal truth, could the two be combined to form a new world language that would create common understanding across all cultures?In 2489, mathematicians who govern the world calculate that if our species doesn't reduce wars and killing, humanity will be driven to extinction in fifteen months. They further divine that the only way out of the crisis is to create the optimum language for humans, which,...
Author:
Pub. Date:
2020
Lexile measure:
1330L
Language:
English
Formats:
Description:
"For African American women, the fight for the right to vote was only one battle. An eye-opening book that tells the important, overlooked story of black women as a force in the suffrage movement--when fellow suffragists did not accept them as equal partners in the struggle."--Publisher's description.