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Valancy Stirling, an inhibited twenty-nine-year-old spinster, undergoes a total personality change when a doctor tells her she has no more than one year to live. Oppressed by family and small-town prejudice, her apparently imminent death gives her the courage to assert herself and seek love.
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"In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Adina wants to put together a perfect act for the school fashion show."--
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"A sharp and gritty novel told in multiple voices, Anatomy of a Girl Gang is the powerful story of a gang of teenage girls in Vancouver called the Black Roses, a.k.a. 'the city’s worst nightmare': Mac, the self-appointed leader and mastermind; Mercy, the Punjabi princess with a skill for theft; Kayos, a high-school dropout who gave birth to a daughter at age thirteen; Sly Girl, who fled her First Nations reserve for a better life, only to find depravity...
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Murilla Gorilla volume 2
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Detective Murilla Gorilla helps Parrot search for a parasol that has gone missing from his parasol stand.
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Newfoundland trilogy (Jill MacLean) volume 2
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"An alcoholic mother, a distracted father, a best friend who spends all his time with his new 'girlfriend, ' and three relentless schoolyard bullies: Prinny Murphy's past, present, and future certainly are 'tense' Adding to her misery, she is in grade six and still can't read well enough to escape from remedial lessons with the dour Mrs. Dooks. But when a kindly substitute teacher introduces her to LaVaughn's inner-city world in the free verse novel,...
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As a young woman, Anne Shirley is embracing adulthood by becoming a productive member of society making the transition from imaginative student to respected schoolteacher. In this classic coming of age story, Anne navigates various challenges that tempt old habits and test her new maturity. A now 16-year-old Anne continues to live with Marilla in the quaint farming town of Avonlea. While poised to start a new teaching position, Anne struggles to balance...
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Una mañana, Mina encuentra una extraña bola verde delante de su casa. Contiene un criatura pequeña, redonda y peluda. Mina lo acoge en su casa, pensando que al día siguiente encontrará a su mamá.
One morning, Mina the squirrel discovers a strange green ball outside her door. Much to her surprise, it hatches and out pops a hairy white creature. She instantly begins a search for its mother. Children will love seeing that as the little fuzzy guy...
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Based on a true story about a young Kenyan boy whose mother left him but had named him Muthini which meant suffering because he was born with no fingers on his left hand and only two on his right. Many times he was made fun of or avoided which hurt him deeply. He lives with his very elderly grandmother, his Nyanya, along with many cousins whose parents had either died or left them. They are extremely poor and there is never enough money or food, but...
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