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1) Meet March
Author
Series
Calendar Kids volume 3
Publisher
Calendar Kids Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"March is ready for winter to come to an end. He is tired of browns and grays. Will March and his friends spot the first signs of spring?"--Back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in this captivating and effervescent biography that is perfect for fans of My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy, What Remains, and Fairy Tale Interrupted. A quarter of a century after the plane crash that claimed the lives of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn, and sister-in-law Lauren, the magnitude of this tragedy remains fresh. Yet, Carolyn is still an enigmatic...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In this brash and unputdownable collection, we meet a sex bot trying to outlast her return policy, a skeptical lesbian grappling with her wife's mysterious pregnancy, and a post-Earth colonist struggling to maintain her faith in humanity as she travels to "Planet B." Whether they exist in the grounded realism of a college dance studio or the speculative world of Deep Space, these women push against social norms and family expectations to reclaim...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Young readers will learn about the lives and legacies of seventeen heroes of the queer community from both past and present. Marsha P. Johnson, Harvey Milk, Cleve Jones, Pauline Park, Richard Blanco, and Pete Buttigieg are just a few of the iconic figures represented in this wonderfully designed and colorful picture book with illustrations by Harry Woodgate. A perfect introduction to the people who have stood up for what they believed in, lived lives...
Author
Publisher
Mit Kids Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This is a story about remarkable creatures, inquisitive people, and fascinating conversations. The creatures? Pine processionary caterpillars with mysterious group habits. The people? Jean Henri Fabre and, many years later, Terrence Fitzgerald-scientists with big questions about the behavior of these caterpillars. And the conversations? The conversations span lifetimes, as one researcher continues a dialogue started by the other. In this playful,...
Publisher
Magic Dog Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This anthology chronicles life in New York and New Jersey, the nation's first COVID-19 epicenter, during the four terrifying months of March through June 2020. Photographs capture the surreal landscapes and scenes in this usually thriving metropolis. Short writings lay bare the challenges, fears, losses, and triumphs of real people in their own words. Readers will meet COVID-19 survivors, frontline workers, business owners, journalists, mask makers,...
Author
Publisher
Interlink Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Poison in the Air, Jabbour Douaihy's final novel, chronicles the decades of social, political, and economic turmoil leading up to and including the recent collapse of his beloved Lebanon after the horrific explosion that occurred at the Port of Beirut in 2020. Douaihy brings a multitude of bottled-up toxicity to the surface, as though he is writing his last letter to the world, or a suicide note for Lebanon, as he paints a picture of a society marching...
Author
Series
Chronicles of the Yellowstone Wolves volume 1
Publisher
Greystone Kids, Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Newly reintroduced along with his pack to Yellowstone National Park, Wolf 8 struggles at first. Small and often bullied by his siblings, he must learn to fend for himself in his new home. Soon enough, though, little 8 grows into one of Yellowstone?s greatest leaders"--
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A powerful and poetic picture book about Black history in the United States, from the shores of Africa and slavery, to the civil rights and Black Lives Matter movements. With stunning lyricism reminiscent of traditional African spirituals and today's rhythm and flow of hip-hop, a teacher shares the history of being Black in the US, while continuing to march into present day--undeterred and proud to be Black. Author Jaha Nailah Avery shows you have...
Author
Series
Publisher
Black Rabbit Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This collection features 25 empowering tales of girls and women who are dedicated to fighting for the planet--to saving endangered storks, ending plastic pollution, and building the cities of the future. Read about their clever actions and tactics, celebrate their successes, and be inspired to join the fight in any way you can. March and strike with Jamie Margolin and Greta Thunberg. Plant trees with Wangari Maathai. Protect the Amazon rain forest...
Author
Series
True hauntings volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"A bloody soldier who disappears into thin air. Flickering orbs floating over a military cemetery. History is filled with brave fighters cut down in the heat of battle. But what if they aren't resting in peace? True Hauntings: Battlefield Ghosts revisits deadly clashes from the past and the ghosts they left behind, from a headless horseman galloping through the night to restless spirits rising from sunken ships, searching for revenge. In this second...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"All we need to do is give animals a voice and our perception of the world could change forever. That’s what author Martin Wikelski and his team of scientists believe, and this book shares their story for the first time. As they tag animals around the world with minuscule tracking devices, they link their movements to The International Space Station, which taps into the ‘internet of animals’: an astonishing network of information made up of...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The knobbiest town in the world"--so Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) described Jerusalem in The Innocents Abroad, a travelogue of his visit to the Holy Land in 1867 (Fig. 0.7). He was struck by the Old City's small size; the small white domes protruding like knobs from the flat roofs of the tightly-packed houses; the narrow, crooked, uneven stone-paved streets; the poverty and filth; and the throngs of beggars: "To see the numbers of maimed, malformed...
Author
Series
Anxiety diaries volume Volume 1
Publisher
[Published by the author]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"What will everybody think? Two thousand nineteen was the worst year of my life, and I can't believe I'm sharing this devastating journey with the world. There are moments in life that can make or break us, and that year was mine, shaping me into who I am, for better and worse. I came close to giving up, I made a near-fatal mistake, and I spent too many moments terrified of my own thoughts. When I started this experiment, to write every day, I simply...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Warsaw, Poland, 1940s: The Nazis are on the march, determined to wipe out the Jewish people of Europe. Teenage Vladka and her family are among the thousands of Jews forced to relocate behind the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto, a cramped, oppressive space full of starvation, suffering, and death. When Vladka's family is deported to concentration camps, Vladka joins up with other young people in the ghetto who are part of the Jewish underground: a group...
Author
Publisher
Flowerpot Press, a division of Flowerpot Children's Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Ducks will be ducks in this silly story that encourages little ones to march to their own beat and be true to themselves. Readers will love to giggle and count along as our little duck friend encounters a growing number of silly animals in this hilarious read.
Series
Reference shelf volume 96, no. 2
Publisher
H.W. Wilson, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Explores the current era in AI technology and the debate about how this emerging technology is changing, and potentially threatening, many familiar parts of human life.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The title story in this Western trio is the desperate tale of Bill Rafferty. Recently released from prison, he wants to dig up the loot he served time for before his partner is freed and wants his share. But the man from whom the money was stolen is making it virtually impossible for Bill to leave the town of Jasperville. In "The Strange Ride of Perry Woodstock," Perry comes into possession of a coded message that tells the location of a buried treasure...