Author: Melissa Brady Petrillo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781098044206
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Sometimes shares Samantha's perspective of her world with her readers. Within this text, readers learn that Samantha sometimes feels differently every day. She describes her interactions with other people and how she communicates her feelings with others. By reading this book, children and adults learn ways to understand and best support their peers, including individuals with autism. Sometimes highlights the importance of friendship, empathy, and inclusivity in the modern world.
Author: Rebecca Elliott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484419946
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Toby and Clemmie return in this touching and amusing sequel to "Just Because," proving that even a scary hospital can be a place for fun if one has the right attitude and the support of someone he loves.
Author: Katrina Moore
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593323823
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
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A tender, poetic picture book about a military family experiencing happiness, heartache, and learning to grow through change “Changes come and changes go. Love through changes makes love grow.” When her mother is deployed overseas, a young girl is temporarily parted from her beloved dog. Told in spare yet lyrical verse, this picture book shares a powerful message about the different ways we show love, from giving, to growing together, to sometimes letting go. But don't worry, this pet story has a happy ending.
Author: Adi Alsaid
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460399013
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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“Utterly charming and thoughtful.” —Nicola Yoon, the New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun is Also a Star “A refreshing novel about friendship and romance that defies cliché, Never Always Sometimes will win readers over with its hilarious musings and universal truths.” -Adam Silvera, the New York Times bestselling author of They Both Die at the End and What If It’s Us Rule #10: Never date your best friend. Well, some rules are meant to be broken. Best friends Dave and Julia have spent their high school years living by their carefully crafted Never List — a list of rules they created to make sure they never become high school clichés. But as graduation approaches, Dave is shocked when Julia decides that they should now do everything on the list, from skinny dipping (Rule #6) to road-tripping (Rule #9). But what happens when Julia finds out that Dave has been breaking Rule #8 (never pine silently for someone for the entirety of high school) for years? Can their friendship survive the ultimate cliché and turn into something…more? From the acclaimed author of Let’s Get Lost and North of Happy, comes a story of what can happen in those final days of high school, when you let go of who you are and take a chance on who you might be.
Author: Lurlene McDaniel
Publisher: Darby Creek ™
ISBN: 1467727962
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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"Junior high will be a blast," promises Andrea Manetti's best friend. But while exciting things are happening at school—new friends, boys, and a chance to star in the musical—Andrea's home life is falling apart. Her parents are always fighting; her mom's new job means Andrea has to help more with the family. And then there's Andrea's brother. Can Andrea keep her family together—and keep their secrets from getting out? And why does the boy at school who hates her seem to be the only one who understands her?
Author: Joel Bernard
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1491810890
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151
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A boy has been cursed by a classmate for some inexplicable reason. The curse is verified in his mind by the death of a buddy. He and his best friend Butcher wander the dark alleys of adolescence seeking the meaning of their lives.
Author: Rebecca Johnson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780399154522
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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When Sophia and Darius say good-bye to their teenage daughters one unremarkable morning, they have no idea how permanently their family will be affected by a decision made around the breakfast table. One of the daughters will have a terrible accident, the
Author: Thom Slofer
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456810332
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Sometimes Like Dimes: Life Lessons in the Steel City is about Thom Slofer, and chronicles his experiences growing up and becoming older in the Hill District neighborhood of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, USA in the 1980's and 90's. During this time period the people, life passages, and the changing surroundings are described as they affect him. The Hill was once a thriving inner-city neighborhood. World-famous jazz musicians once played in the ballrooms and jazz clubs nightly; the Hill District was to Pittsburgh what Harlem is to New York City. Hard economic times before and after the 1980’s hit the once economically thriving black community at the foot of downtown Pittsburgh hard. The Hill was now nothing more than a snapshot of economic demise. The successes and setbacks through his high school years and into his young adult life are chronicled. Older women he became involved with showed him another way to be despite peer and neighborhood influences. He graduates high school to attend college but drops out and obtains a reasonable job; but the streets and thier infuences are present. He becomes a part-time bartender then begins to carry a gun before loosing his job and succumbing to low self-esteem. He’s then forced to survive on the streets but refuses to take part in any crime. He rises above and eventually beyond the streets, but the lessons "street life" taught stayed within him. Sometimes Like Dimes: Life Lessons in the Steel City not only demonstrates that if every man were to write a book about his experiences every story would be unique; but is also a lens to view what it was like to live life in Southwestern Pennsylvania, USA.
Author: Penelope Farmer
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681371111
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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A time-travel story that is both a poignant exploration of human identity and an absorbing tale of suspense. It’s natural to feel a little out of place when you’re the new girl, but when Charlotte Makepeace wakes up after her first night at boarding school, she’s baffled: everyone thinks she’s a girl called Clare Mobley, and even more shockingly, it seems she has traveled forty years back in time to 1918. In the months to follow, Charlotte wakes alternately in her own time and in Clare’s. And instead of having only one new set of rules to learn, she also has to contend with the unprecedented strangeness of being an entirely new person in an era she knows nothing about. Her teachers think she’s slow, the other girls find her odd, and, as she spends more and more time in 1918, Charlotte starts to wonder if she remembers how to be Charlotte at all. If she doesn’t figure out some way to get back to the world she knows before the end of the term, she might never have another chance.
Author: Avril Joy
Publisher: Lynn Michell
ISBN: 0957596871
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Set in a river boat community in Arkansas in the 1930s, this poignant story chronicles Aiyana Weir's spirited determination to break away from a life, like that of the women around her, defined and dominated by brutal patriarchy. Aiyana's voice, unique, hesitant and uneducated, expresses the turmoil of her inner world through the details and rhythms of her beloved river and charts her secret pursuit of literacy - her only means of escape from the abuse of her father and the indifference of the man to whom she is casually given. Her grandmother, a mythical figure steeped in wisdom and folklore, and her brother, Lyle, are Aiyana's only allies in her struggle for survival and as shameless plans to leave the river.
