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Elephant and Piggie books volume 4
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Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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Elephant and Piggie books volume 4
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
For the first time ever, best friends Elephant and Piggie have five Biggie adventures in one book!
8) I am famous
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English
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"Kiely is a celebrity! She has been famous since the moment she was born. The paparazzi follow her every move, documenting it all for the cameras. Oh, the price of fame! When Kiely is invited to perform at grandpa's birthday party, she's facing her biggest live audience yet. Will she be able to prove herself to her adoring fans?"--Page 2 of cover.
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"Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood - but secretly, she pours her dreams and frustrations onto the pages of her notebook like prayers. When she is invited to join her school's slam poetry club, Xiomara doesn't know how she could ever attend without her religious mami finding out. But even so, in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent."--taken from back cover.
Xiomara...
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English
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"From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures. America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably linked to her parents' homeland and Honduran culture. Speaking Spanish at home, having Saturday-morning-salsa-dance-parties in the kitchen, and eating tamales...
14) Before you say anything: the untold stories and failproof strategies of a very discreet speechwriter
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Victoria Wellman's Before You Say Anything invites readers into the game-changing creative process of New York's busiest speechwriter, delivering actionable insights for anyone tasked with speaking in public. In the age of information and influence, the ability to authentically express yourself in words has become both a rite of passage and an essential skill for anyone who wants to make a difference-however modest or grand-in their family, community,...
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English
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"Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, was born in 1935 to a peasant family in a remote part of Tibet. Although living in exile, he is the beloved traditional and religious leader of millions of Tibetans and has become a global icon of peace, compassion, spiritual living, and nonviolent struggle for justice. The Dalai Lama's My Spiritual Journey brings the world a message: one of suffering, success, and hope. This vivid and moving portrait of...
18) Dope
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.
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Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
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"The idea of verse, of poetry, has always, during forty years spent working primarily in prose, stood at my elbow, as a standing invitation to the highest kind of verbal exercise - the most satisfying, the most archaic, the most elusive of critical control. In hotel rooms and airplanes, on beaches and Sundays, at junctures of personal happiness or its opposite, poetry has comforted me with its hope of permanence, its packaging of flux." Thus John...
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Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"For anyone who wants to have better, more productive discussions about racism, COURAGEOUS DISCOMFORT is an empowering handbook that teaches you how to do just that. In these pages, authors (and best friends), Shanterra McBride, who is Black, and Rosalind Wiseman, who is white, discuss their own friendship and tap into their decades of anti-racism work to answer the 20 uncomfortable-but-critical questions about race they get asked most often, including:...
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