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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Well-known works including fables, folklore, fiction, drama, and more, by such authors as Aesop, Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and Baldwin, are presented to teach virtues, including compassion, courage, honesty, friendship, and faith.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Free Press trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 192 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Liz Pryor gives voice to the painful, but common occurrence, when friendships end for no apparent reason. Pryor draws on her own personal experience and interviews with hundreds of people that have had friendships gone wrong. She reveals the patterns, warning signs, and some ways to put a friendship right or help it change.
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
x, 299 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this witty and rebellious history of world soccer, award-winning writer Eduardo Galeano searches for the styles of play, players, and goals that express the unique personality of certain times and places.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First English-language edition.
Language
English
Description
It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume...
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 4
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
122 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Bean's parents leave her in the care of her older sister Nancy for the afternoon, she enlists her neighbor and best friend, Ivy, to come over and teach Nancy how to be a really good babysitter.
Author
Series
Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While trying to spare Erica's feelings so she could go to Brittany's birthday party, Allie disobeys one of her own rules and lies.
11) Most people
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Most People looks at the goodness of most people, pointing out how many more people there are in the world who would like to help others than would like to hurt them, and even most of those who do bad things can change.
Author
Series
Junie B. Jones volume 6
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
85 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Junie B is very upset when a boy in her class plans to invite everyone except her to his birthday party, but her grandfather helps her deal with the situation.
14) Emily's tiger
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Emily always lets her inner tiger roar when things do not go her way until her grandmother shows her how to turn her angry tiger into a happy one.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Self-proclaimed genius Nate Wright blazes a haphazard trail through the sixth grade at P.S. 38, where between endless misadventures, marked by complaining observations, he earns straight As and numerous detentions.
16) If I were a lion
Author
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[30] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A little girl pleads her innocence from her time-out chair by contrasting her behavior with that of wild and ferocious animals.
Author
Series
Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Allie Finkle's list of rules helps her navigate a tricky situation with a new girl at school.
20) Clark the Shark
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Clark finds everything about school fun and exciting, but his enthusiasm causes problems until he begins inventing rhymes to remind himself to stay cool at school.