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61) My Neighborhood
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English
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Families, doctors, road crew workers, and electricians: these are just a few of the people who live and work in a neighborhood. Young readers will get to know all about these people and their role in their community through this engaging, simple text. Interesting facts and full-color photos provide readers with a look at who makes up a neighborhood, how neighbors help each other, what jobs they do, and how people have fun in a neighborhood. A follow-up...
62) Dabby's Pond
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English
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Dabby is a pretty duck living in a pond. His friend Donna lives in the city and comes to visit. "Where are all the buildings?" she asks. "Where are the cars and taxi cabs?" Donna learns Dabby's pond is a very different place from the city.
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Español
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Trabajadores que me cuidan (Workers Who Take Care of Me) builds critical literacy skills with this exciting Spanish-translated nonfiction reader. Engage students with fascinating content that will keep them enthralled from the first page to the last. Focusing on different types of workers, children will be introduced to all the people who work hard to take care of us. This informational text features simple phrases, exact text-to-image relationships,...
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Español
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Join a family as they spend the day visiting various places in town. They'll visit a library, fire station, city hall, and an ice cream parlor as they learn about the importance of community. This Spanish-translated script features roles written to match multiple reading levels. Teachers can assign specific roles to their readers based on everyone's current reading level, allowing all readers to get involved in the same activity and feel successful!...
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Español
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Trabajadores de mi ciudad (Workers in My City) builds critical literacy skills with this exciting Spanish-translated nonfiction reader. Engage students with fascinating content that will keep them enthralled from the first page to the last. Focusing on different types of workers, children will be introduced to the people who work hard in the city. This informational text features simple phrases, exact text-to-image relationships, vivid photographs,...
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269 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Español
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Here the author shares her formula for becoming happier, healthier, and stronger in this positive, essential guide that is grounded in science and inspired by personal experience. Throughout her career, she has been a role model for millions of women. By her own candid admission, though, this fit, glamorous, but down to earth star was not always health conscious. Learning about the inseparable link between nutrition and the body was just one of the...
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Grab your cowboy hat and saddle up! Early elementary readers learn about all the responsibilities it takes to be a cowhand and ranch hand as they move through this captivating nonfiction title. Featuring plenty of vibrant photographs in conjunction with informational facts about cattle, cowboys, and rodeos, this book will have readers engaged and eager to learn more!
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A class project leads Frankie to learn where her food comes from and go up against the Food Phantom. When Frankie and her classmates are asked where their food comes from, it sparks curiosity about her town's food system. "Walking home, I tell Grandpa about my project. 'We live in a place where you can buy a burger for one dollar, or pay two dollars for one banana. That doesn't add up!'" Frankie begins to unravel the mystery of how he's affecting...
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xiv, 285 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Bringing Up Bebe meets Last Child in the Woods in this lively, insightful memoir about a mother who sets out to discover if the nature-centric parenting philosophy of her native Scandinavia holds the key to healthier, happier lives for her American children. When Swedish-born Linda McGurk moved to small-town Indiana with her American husband to start a family, she quickly realized that her outdoorsy ways were not the norm. In Sweden children play...
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Maggie loves living on a farm, but she isn't happy when the cows move into her cozy house. They cook in her kitchen, play dress-up in her closet, take bubble baths in her tub, and have no interest in leaving! Can Maggie find a way to get the cows to go? In this humorous rhyming picture book, Maggie shows readers that anything is possible with a little out-of-the-box thinking.
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Español
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Oriol Alamany, gran viajero y profesional de la fotografía, ofrece en esta obra una completa guía para que disfrutes más fotografiando tus salidas de fin de semana o viajes de vacaciones.
El autor, que cuenta con gran experiencia en cursos de esta especialidad, comparte foto a foto técnicas y consejos que te permitirán conseguir fotos espectaculares en tus recorridos, ya sea por nuestra geografía o el resto del mundo.
Una completa guía a través...
74) Schlangensommer
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Deutsch
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Die Geschichte spielt am Fårup Fjord, von den Hauptfiguren Fuck-up Fjord genannt, weit draußen auf dem Land, wo es im Sommer von deutschen Touristen nur so wimmelt und im Winter gar nichts los ist. Nun ist aber Sommer, und die dreizehnjährige Terne jobbt im Schlangenterrarium ihres Vaters, während sie sich über ihren uncoolen, fünfzehnjährigen Bruder Bjørn beschwert und geheime Pläne mit ihrer besten Freundin Emma schmiedet. Dann verliebt...
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304 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"After an abusive, neglected childhood spent on welfare and in and out of homelessness in Alaska, raised by a mother who believed she was the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, Carrot Quinn moved out on her own. She found a sense of belonging with a bunch of straight-edge anarchists who taught her how to traverse the country by freight trains, sleep in fields under the stars, and find her food by foraging in dumpsters. Her new life was one of thrilling...
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Español
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Teach students about the unique aspects of communities and towns! This book uses intriguing primary source documents and simple paragraphs to engage students in reading as they build their social studies content knowledge. For use in the classroom or at home, this Spanish book includes a simple glossary and index to introduce informational text features to young readers and provide additional reading support.
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xxix, 209 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"The hundreds of photographs of unique homes, including tiny houses, shipping containers, yurts, boathouses, and vans, in unexpected places from all around the world, invite you to slow down, read about the dwellers' experiences and consider a new lifestyle where you truly live by your own rules." -- Back cover.
"In the follow-up to the successful Van Life, Foster Huntington shares his experiences -- and those of others -- living by his own rules...
79) In the Spring
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English
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This book introduces early readers to words in the spring. Simple words and vibrant images help engage children and grow a love of reading! Downloadable Teacher Notes available.
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Français
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Marc est un garçon de la ville qui est allé vivre chez sa grand-mère à la campagne pendant que sa mère est en cure de désintoxication. Pour la première fois de sa vie, il doit voyager en autobus scolaire. Le long trajet dans un véhicule bruyant n'a rien à voir avec les transports en commun de la ville : il y a un genre de code secret pour savoir o on peut s'asseoir, les jeunes crient sans arrêt et quelqu'un essaie même de mettre le feu...
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