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"Shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award "This is an astoundingly beautiful book. It drips with tenderness. It breaks your heart and warms it all at once."--Matt Haig, author of How to Stop Time From internationally bestselling author Sarah Winman comes an unforgettable and heartbreaking novel celebrating love in all its forms, and the little moments that make up the life of one man. This is almost a love story. But it's not as simple...
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Where in the garden? volume 2
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English
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"Miguel has many plants in his community garden, and today he must find his sunflowers. Let's help Miguel look for them!"--Back cover.
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English
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3 stars
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For every boy from eight to eighty, covers essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age-old question of what the big deal with girls is. In this digital age there is still a place for knots, skimming stones and stories of incredible courage. This book recaptures Sunday afternoons, stimulates curiosity, and makes for great father-son activities. The brothers Conn and Hal...
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750L
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English
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"Luke Abbott's school is the losing-est school in the history of losing. And that's just fine for him. He'd rather be at home playing video games and avoiding his older brother Rob and the Greatest Betrayal of All Time. But now he's being forced to join the robotics team, where surely he'll help uphold the school's losing streak"--
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Blake's illuminated books volume 2
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English
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This collection of poems by famous English Romantic poet William Blake comprises two volumes in one. Self-published by Blake, the first collection entitled "Songs of Innocence", first appeared in 1789. This volume focuses on the pastoral and innocent perfection of childhood. The tone is beautiful and often delicately romantic. However, there is also a dark side to the naivety of childhood. Blake explores the vulnerability of the poor and the young...
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Lerner Publishing Group
Lexile measure:
240L
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English
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! As the sun moves across the sky, a little boy joyfully watches the sunflowers follow the sun in this sweet illustrated story. Pairs with the nonfiction title Let's Look at Sunflowers.
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Pub. Date:
2011
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AD: Adult Directed 620L
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English
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In a land marked by endless fighting between knights and dragons, a mother gives her eager little boy a sunflower rather than the sword he requests, and when he wields it against a real dragon, new understanding begins.
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Who Let The Gods Out? volume 1
Pub. Date:
2017
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English
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Twelve-year-old Elliot Hooper has many problems: his mother has been behaving strangely, they are in danger of loosing their farm to a mean-spirited developer, and he is failing at school, so when he finds a girl in the cowshed, and she announces that she is Virgo, an immortal constellation, it just seems part of the normal chaos--but soon he is swept up in the Gods' hunt for prisoner 42, Thanatos, Daemon of Death, whom Elliot has set free from his...
15. I Am Here!
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Kodansha USA
Pub. Date:
2013
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English
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Invisible to her classmates, Hikage Sumino is an eighth grader with no self-esteem. Her only friends are the visitors to her Internet blog. One day, the most popular boy in the grade suddenly talks to her. Encouraged by this twist of fate, Hikage determines to transform her life and declare to the world, I Am Here! WHEN THE SUNFLOWER BLOOMS After the sudden disappearance of Black Rabbit from her blog, a series of surprises continues to shake up Hikage's...
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Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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George never seems to be very lucky. Nothing ever seems to go quite right for him. In fact, George believes that he is the unluckiest boy in the world. When his class is involved in a school project involving growing sunflowers and the production of a play called "James and The Giant Sunflower", which is to be performed in front of all the parents at the summer fair, things seem to go from bad to worse for George. Will he ever be able to beat Ben...
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St. Benedict Press LLC
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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A Garden for Mary is a lyrical children's story that gets to the root of devotion to Jesus's mother through sacred prayer and scripture. With classic watercolors of vibrant blooms, buzzing bees, and curious chipmunks, families seeking an introduction to the rich catholic tradition of Marian Gardens will find a treasured resource to enjoy and pass down from generation to generation. Complete with an illustrated appendix of flowers associated with Our...
18. The Secret Room
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Dorrance Publishing Company
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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About the Book Sunflower Chronicles begins a journey into the sun. Benjamin and his friends discover a secret room in the attic above his bedroom. And within, a quantum computer who leads them into the fourth dimension. The boys attempt to survive in school and on the streets as they fight to overcome the problems of adolescence while discovering the secrets of the universe within Benjimin's own home. Their journey takes them to a silo in Oregon,...
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mineditionUS, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, a division of Astra Publishing House
Pub. Date:
2022
Lexile measure:
610L
Language:
English
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"Loujain watches her beloved baba attach his feather wings and fly each morning, but her own dreams of flying face a big obstacle: only boys, not girls, are allowed to fly in her country. Yet despite the taunts of her classmates, she is determined to do it--especially because Loujain loves colors, and only by flying can she see the color-filled field of sunflowers her baba has told her about. Eventually, he agrees to teach her, and Loujain's impossible...
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2011
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English
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"Bottom of the 33rd is chaw-chewing, sunflower-spitting, pine tar proof that too much baseball is never enough." -Jane Leavy, author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax From Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Dan Barry comes the beautifully recounted story of the longest game in baseball history-a tale celebrating not only the robust intensity of baseball, but the aspirational ideal epitomized by the hard-fighting players of the minor leagues....