Lisa Smith
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Ava is a friendly girl, loving warm and kind. She is surrounded by good friends and a supportive family, but like everyone else, she has difficult days. Days when life seems hard.
Follow Ava's journey of self-discovery in this enchanting book of poems that all children should read. From learning about where happiness truly comes from to embracing your differences, these empowering messages teach us that anything is possible. Let's encourage a...
2) Mañana quién sabe: Who Knows Tomorrow: A Memoir of Finding Family among the Lost Children of Africa
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Tras una infancia errante y multicultural, a los veintipocos años Lisa Lovatt-Smith había alcanzado una vida privilegiada como editora de moda. Pero entonces entró en su vida Sabrina, de cinco años, y Lisa se convirtió en madre de acogida. Con su hija emprendió unos años después un viaje que acabó cambiándoles la vida. Llegaron a Ghana como cooperantes, y lo que vieron allí alteró para siempre las prioridades vitales de Lisa. Unos meses...
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Lisa Smith was a bright, young lawyer at a prestigious firm in NYC in the early nineties when alcoholism started to take over her life. What was once a way of escaping her insecurity and negativity became a means of coping with the anxiety and stress of an impossible workload. Girl Walks Out of a Bar is Smith's darkly comic and wrenchingly honest story of her formative years, the decade of alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and her road to recovery....
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We all know the Sun, the powerhouse of our solar system, but what about Luyten's Flare, the Rosino-Zwicky Object or Chanal's variable star? For those whose curiosity takes them far beyond Earth's atmosphere, The Secret Life of Stars offers a personal and readily understood introduction to some of the Galaxy's most remarkable stars. Each chapter connects us to the various different and unusual stars and their amazing characteristics and attributes,...
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RAINBOW CHASERS is a story of childlike wonder. After a storm, a marvelous rainbow appears in the morning sky. Curious beyond measure, five children set off on an adventure to find "treasure" at the end of the rainbow. Dreaming of the riches to be found, the characters discover the richness of wonder in the simplest of Earth's treasures.
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"Lisa takes us right from the beginning of our stargazing adventure, from setting ourselves up to view the sky, to a tour of the galaxy, to discovering and learning about planets and celestial objects.
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This is a terrific book. Compact in nature, but really brimming with information to fill young minds and encourage them to investigate the world above us." -- Jane Stephens, GoodReading
Wherever you are in this world - whether that be in the Northern...
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Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-7 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book.
A patterned picture book about a family outing to the beach. The children are delighted when they spot seagulls, an ice-cream...