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I MADE THESE ANTS SOME UNDERPANTS!After receiving a gift of six pairs of day-of-the-week underwear (five for Monday through Friday and just one for the weekend), a child is...
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JACKIE ORMES DRAWS THE FUTUREOrmes (1911-1985), born Zelda Jackson, realized as a child that “adventure didn’t have to be caught—it could be created.” She went on to become...
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NO IS ALL I KNOW!A word all too familiar to caregivers of little ones, no echoes around Oliver’s house. He turns down food, a request to clean up a mess, and...
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B MY NAME IS BOYFollowing in the footsteps of Masi’s G My Name Is Girl (2021), this companion title focuses on two male characters for each letter of the...
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UP TO SPEEDBased on scientific papers and more than 140 interviews with athletes, parents, coaches, and researchers, this book by sports and health...
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FROM HERE TO THEREThis delightful work starts by depicting the small house where light-skinned Anna lives and the six-story apartment building where brown-skinned...
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THE BATHYSPHERE BOOKDesigned by diver and inventor Otis Barton in the late 1920s, the bathysphere was a spherical, submersible, windowed chamber that allowed...
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TOWN AND GOWNIn the small, rural college town of Shelton, Pennsylvania, young peoples’ possibilities are determined by cliques: “In the Venn Diagram of...
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CAVE GIRL’S BIG IDEACave Girl has everything a prehistoric girl could want, like parents who “rock” and a pet snake. There’s just one thing she can’t stand…living...
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MARVEL COMICS IN THE 1970SA generation of Marvel writers who explored themes of interiority and subjectivity in the 1970s bridged the gap between Spider-Man in the 1960s...
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ANGER IS YOUR COMPASSThe author has drawn on his experience coaching individuals and couples to develop what he characterizes as a new approach to managing anger and...
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DESSERT WITH BUDDHARetired Otto Ringling has just sold his home in Bronxville, New York. He’s flush with cash and has plans to move back to his home state of North...
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HIGHWAY 28 WESTHighway 28 West is a desolate place. It’s a stretch of road where “everything takes at least two hours or two days or two months or two years...
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THE TAKEOUTTwelve-year-old Mila Pascual and her dad help run the Banana Leaf, a Filipino Indian fusion food truck they own with their friends Mr. Ram and...
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THE MAN WITH SAPPHIRE EYESIn 1371, the Republic of Venice is threatened by a potential alliance between the loathsome Lord Francesco Carrara of Padua (who is pillaging...
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Eat, Eat, Eat! Cheese, Cheese, Cheese!Footloose, Fancy, and Free are three mouse pals, and like many rodents, they love to eat cheese. In fact, it’s their favorite activity in the...
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BROTHERSSlate, author of Colored Cosmopolitanism and Lord Cornwallis Is Dead , worshipped his older brother, Peter, “my best friend and the closest...
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THE ENDS OF FREEDOMArguing against the use of negative rights to champion individual freedom and bolster conservative thought, Paul, a professor of public policy...
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BUT SHE LOOKS FINEIn second grade, Goodreau began suffering blackouts, vision loss, and shooting pains. She saw over 50 specialists in one year to no avail;...
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QUEEN CHARLOTTEOpening with a coy reminder that the novel is “fiction inspired by fact,” the story is about the first year of marriage between Charlotte...
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NOT JUST FOR THE BOYSEarly in the book, Donald, emeritus professor of experimental physics and former Gender Equality Champion at the University of Cambridge, poses...
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EPOCHTwenty-two-year-old Blanca Hernandez and her younger brother, Mateo, tour the Texas college Mateo will soon be attending. An apparent earthquake...
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YOU KNOW BESTThe author describes her book as “an invitation to curate the best version of yourself while building influence in fast-paced organizations.”...
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RED MEMORYLondon-based journalist Branigan, who lived in China from 2008 until recently, delivers a series of poignant, engaging stories that reveal the...
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I WILL LEAVE YOU NEVERFor Zoë Penney, potential misfortune is always crowding at the periphery of daily experience. Someone has been prowling her Northwest town and...
