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Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tallulah dreams of playing the tuba, but she's small and the tuba is very large. Everyone around her tells her to wait until she's bigger, but Tallulah can't wait--she just has to play the tuba in her school band.With determination and a lot of creativity, Tallulah hatches a plan that she hopes will turn her musical dream into reality."--
Author
Publisher
Front Street/Cricket Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
173 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Determined to write a novel during the summer before he starts high school, thirteen-year-old Jackie struggles with his inability to finish anything and with the advice of others.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Waking up to the tantalizing smell of waffles, Benny the woodpecker is turned away from a nearby waffle house and must employ his wits to get a waffle in spite of the taunts of animal neighbors who tell him that woodpeckers do not eat waffles.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"There are issues, and there are issues--love, loss, success, failure, hope, regret, life, death. How can we even begin to think clearly about dilemmas so universally confounding? Phil Stutz has spent his life pondering the big challenges that we all face, and this profound book puts the conclusions he's reached at your fingertips"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"This book will change lives."
—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
From the host of the award-winning MarieTV and The Marie Forleo Podcast, an indispensable handbook for becoming the creative force of your own life.
While most self-help books offer quick fixes, Everything is Figureoutable will retrain your brain to think more creatively...
"This book will change lives."
—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
From the host of the award-winning MarieTV and The Marie Forleo Podcast, an indispensable handbook for becoming the creative force of your own life.
While most self-help books offer quick fixes, Everything is Figureoutable will retrain your brain to think more creatively...
46) Little by little
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First Scholastic edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Otto is a young otter who can do many things well, but swimming is not one of them until his older sister tells him to start small and, little by little, he is able to reach his goal, adding swimming to his "I can do" list.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Raised by a great-grandmother and a bunch of beauty shop buddies, fourteen-year-old Abbey resolves to overcome her unhappy childhood and disillusionment with the mother who deserted her.
Author
Publisher
Lil' Libros
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
Español
Description
Inspirado en la clásica canción con rima, Sana, sana, colita de rana, con la que crecen muchos niños latinoamericanos, este libro sigue a Tina en su búsqueda para convertirse en una aspirante a luchadora mexicana, junto a su lujoso compañero, Mr. Frog. Después de sufrir un abucheo, su hermano se burla de Tina. Su ouchie la hace querer renunciar, pero depende de ella enfrentar su miedo a lesionarse nuevamente, y tal como lo anima la canción,...
49) The perfect plan
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maya plans to build the perfect treehouse, but after doing research and selecting the perfect spot, she finds she must recruit helpers to get the job done.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In interwoven narratives, a young girl and her mother support one another as one tries out for the baseball team and the other interviews for a bricklaying job, then celebrate their success together.
51) Breathing soccer
Author
Publisher
Thistledown Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
140 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Boxcar Children are spending the summer in an enormous New England farmhouse and the old woodshed holds a surprising secret that dates from the Revolutionary War.
53) Ice
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 16 cm
Language
English
Description
This wordless tale depicts a community of pigs that suffer from the heat and go in search of ice despite the odds against them.
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 sound file)
Language
English
Description
"Intentional Minds is a crash course in developing the ten key traits necessary to increase your killer instinct and mental toughness so you can reach bolder goals in all life's vital arenas"--
56) Gravity
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brooklyn. Since Gravity "Doomsday" Delgado started working with Coach Thomas, she been breaking records, breaking her competitors, and breaking the walls inside her. Boxiing is taking her places. She makes friends with other boxers: flirtatious Lefty, hard-to-beat D-Minus, artistic Kimani "Monster" Browne, and a host of others. But things with her mother are reaching a tipping point, and Gravity has to look out for her little brother Ty. With a shot...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Golden Maroni starts eighth grade determined to be master of his universe, but learns he cannot control everything on the soccer field, in his friendships, and especially in facing his father's incurable disease.
Author
Publisher
Creston Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"As long as he can remember, Xian has wanted to be a great calligrapher, like his father. When he turns six, he's finally old enough to start studying. Calligraphy is more than writing--it's painting--and Xian learns how much work and creativity go into what look like effortless strokes. Based on stories still told about Xian and his father, famous calligraphers of the 4th century, Eighteen Vats of Water is about determination, creativity, and learning...
59) The paperboy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A paperboy and his dog enjoy the quiet of the early morning as they go about their rounds.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
165 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After learning she cannot take a cake decorating class with her best friend, partly because her parents consider her a quitter, eleven-year-old Eliza tries to prove herself by sticking with a taekwondo class all summer.
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