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Mighty Little Girls
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Kids' Books for Mental Health Awareness Month
Mighty Little Girls
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it. She was a perfect baby, and she had a perfect name. Chrysanthemum. When she was old enough to appreciate it, Chrysanthemum loved her name. And then she started school. "I'm named after my grandmother," said Victoria. "You're named after a flower." Chrysanthemum wilted. Life at school didn't improve. In fact, it got worse. Then the students were introduced...
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Promising to be the debut novel of the season The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman's act of violence against her husband?and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive... Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel...
5) Biscuit
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Early Reader Books in English and Spanish/Libros "Reader" para lectores principiantes en ingles y español
Early Reader Books in English and Spanish/Libros "Reader" para lectores principiantes en ingles y español
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Biscuit, a little yellow dog, continues to want just one more thing before he will go to sleep.
6) Corduroy
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BOOKS TALKING BOOKS SPANISH
Children's Picture Book Classics
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
BOOKS TALKING BOOKS SPANISH
Children's Picture Book Classics
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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A toy bear in a department store wants a number of things, but when a little girl finally buys him he finds what he has always wanted most of all.
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Children's Picture Book Classics
Books to Movies & TV in 2023
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Harold uses his fantastic purple crayon to draw himself some wonderful adventures.
13) Pachinko
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"A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone. Pachinko follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan....
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Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in...
17) Ira sleeps over
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A little boy is excited at the prospect of spending the night at his friend's house but worries how he'll get along without his teddy bear.
18) Sooley
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After seventeen-year-old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season, but Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America, working tirelessly on his game until he dominates everyone in practice, and when Sooley is called...
19) Bark, George
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George the puppy's mother is in for a big surprise when she takes him to the veterinarian to find out why he does not bark.
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"Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: 'He has a nose,' people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard. As Tracker follows...