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Holiday House
Pub. Date:
©2024
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English
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Eleven-year-old Lou wishes she could turn back time to mend her friendship with Francie after a terrible fight, so when Lou befriends Cece she is eager to prove herself, but as she uncovers the truth about Cece's family, she grapples with what being a good friend means.
"It's the thirty-fourth day of sixth grade at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Mayfield, Missouri, and eleven-year-old Lou wishes she could rewind time. She wants to go back to the ninth...
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English
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In 1910, hoping that the study of penguin eggs would provide an evolutionary link between birds and reptiles, a group of explorers left Cardiff by boat on Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to Antarctica. Not all of them would return. Written by one of its survivors, The Worst Journey in the World tells the moving and dramatic story of the disastrous Scott expedition. Driven by an obsession for scientific knowledge, these brave polar explorers embarked...
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Duke Classics
Language:
English
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The Worst Journey in the World is the autobiographical account of a disastrous Antarctic expedition by one of its survivors. Cherry-Garrard's account of the expedition is held in high regard, because of his frank, unflinching discussion of the horrors and trials he survived for such perhaps arbitrary goals.
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English
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"For those who loved New York Times bestseller Rin Tin Tin comes the memorable story of Sergeant Stubby--World War I dog veteran, decorated war hero, American icon, and above all, man's best friend--never before told and timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of World War I. National Geographic tells the story of a stray dog who becomes Sergeant Stubby the War Dog during World War I. Beloved award-winning author and library darling Ann Bausum...
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Duty demands that Anthony Farr, the Duke of Radcliffe, remarry to provide a spare heir, and eligible ladies are vying for a proposal. All he wants is to be a good father to his young son, to see his pig win first prize at the harvest fête, and to stay single. Miss Jane Kent, a long-lost relation of the Penhallow family, arrives in the neighborhood and is promptly befriended by the Duke's son. Anthony comes to realize that Jane is smart, fun and...
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Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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I am an ex-convict, and have, spent twenty-five years in prison. This is the only honest way of making a living, which does not bore me stiff. The spirit of adventure is never stronger in a man than on the day he is, released from prison. The theory that prison crushes a man's spirit is all bunkum. One of the first things I did when I came out of prison was to look round for a nice genteel way of swindling the public. I came out of prison with the...
Series:
Criterion collection volume 1132
Publisher:
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
Norwegian
Description:
Chronicling four years in the life of Julie, this modern story about the quest for love and meaning explores a young woman’s navigation of the troubled waters of her love life and career path, ultimately leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
10. Worst Friends
Publisher:
Level 33 Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
See what happens when self-involved prankster Jake gets hit by a car and the only person around to take care of him is his childhood friend Sam. With the help of pretty, no-nonsense physical therapist Lily, Sam agrees to help Jake recover, but when Sam's
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English
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Act out the story of two friends who make themselves flat so they can travel to Egypt and China! Learn about the pyramids, the Nile River, the Great Wall of China, the Terra-cotta Warriors, and more! The roles in this script are written at different reading levels. This feature allows teachers to easily implement differentiation and English language learner strategies and assign specific roles to students in a way that accommodates individual reading...
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Publisher:
Patsy Trench
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Description:
In 1801 Mary Pitt, a 53-year-old widow and mother of five, left her home in Fiddleford in Dorset to sail across the world to live in a penal colony in a country that was then considered by its recent arrivals to be the worst country in the world. Colonial New South Wales was then barely fourteen years old, an experiment that looked as if it was going to fail. What on earth made her go there? "The Worst Country in the World" is a story about the early...
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Publisher:
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
Description:
All of the failings and missteps of celebrities, politicians, and a few just-plain-dumb folks, as seen on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Keith Olbermann is more popular than ever, and ratings for Countdown are up 85 percent over the last year. A key feature of the program is his daily award for "The Worst Person in the World." From Ann Coulter and Barbara Bush to Bill O'Reilly and more, he brings the best of his "worsts" together in a wildly...
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Publisher:
Vince Iuliano
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
It was 1970, and indeed there was "bad news on the doorstep". I was freezing to death! Whoever said there was money in being a paperboy had certainly misled me! My misadventures delivering newspapers on Long Island in the early 70's to a thankless, cruel world. Look for it only in the history books, for news delivery is now a thing of the past.
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Publisher:
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date:
2007
Language:
English
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Every Saturday, while helping polish the lens of the lighthouse his grandfather tends, nine-year-old Will tells a tale he hopes will top Grandad's, but Grandad always wins until Dad reminds Will of a long-forgotten escapade with his brother.
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Publisher:
Jammer Audiobooks
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
A darkly funny new story from the queen of UK YA.Alice Jenkins is the worst girlfriend in the world according to the many, many boys who've shimmied up lampposts and shoplifted from New Look to impress her, only to be dumped when she gets bored of them. Alice has a very low boredom threshold. But she never gets bored with Franny, her best friend since they met at nursery school. Friends are for ever. Ain't nothing going to come between them. Girls...
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Publisher:
Otbebookpublishing
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Excerpt: "The lovely little Miss Selby came from Boston, and the large and not unhandsome Mr. Anderson came from New York, and they did not like each other. Indeed, Miss Selby was not very fond, just then, of any one who did not come from Boston. Sometimes she even went so far as to declare to herself that she did not like any one at all except the members of one certain household in Boston. It was at night, after she had gone to bed, that she usually...