Anjan Sarkar
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"Ben Ripley is recruited for a magnet school with a focus on science--but he's entirely shocked to discover that the school is actually a front for a junior C.I.A. academy. Ben becomes an undercover agent and goes on his first assignment in this graphic novel adaptation of SPY SCHOOL"--
Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley leaves his public middle school to attend the CIA's highly secretive Espionage Academy, which everyone is told is an elite science school....
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Diverse Books - Celebrating Diversity
Diverse Books - Jewish Picture Books
Picture Books Featuring Multiracial and Interfaith Families
Winter Holidays
Diverse Books - Jewish Picture Books
Picture Books Featuring Multiracial and Interfaith Families
Winter Holidays
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A boy is worried that his little sister's climbing will spoil the first night of Hanukkah, when his family combines his father's Jewish traditions with his mother's East Indian cooking.
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Eight-year-old Sadiq wants to try out for the youth football team like his friends, but his parents feel he is too young, and instead suggest that he take up running and join the track club--Sadiq feels that running is wimpy, but the coach convinces him that running races can be fun as well.
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Sadiq's father is going on a business trip, but before he goes he tells Sadiq a story of the Desert Star, which fits in perfectly with Sadiq's third grade class field trip to the planetarium, and inspires Sadiq to build a simple telescope to study the stars when his father returns.
10) Trick or cheat??
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Zeke spends Halloween in his true alien form, but when a jealous classmate decides to stop him from winning the school costume contest, Harris and Roxy must save the day.
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Even though it is summer Sadiq goes to religious school four days a week to study the Quran; he and his friends find their teacher, Mr. Kassim, strict and intimidating, but when Sadiq finds out that Mr. Kassim has a injured shoulder he decides to volunteer to help with the gardening--and he convinces his friends to volunteer as well.
13) Alien scout
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Harris invites Zeke to join him for a weekend at Beaver Scout Camp, but Zeke needs help understanding the activities and hiding his alien abilities from the other campers.
14) Rum pum pum
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"'Rrrrh!' means 'Let's be friends' in tiger talk, but the other animals don't understand him and run away! Maybe the gentle 'rum-pum-pum' of the drum can help him find a friend"--Provided by publisher.