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61) Vanishing act
Author
Series
Float volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Hank must overcome his inconvenient invisibility to save Camp Outlier from a saboteur--and win the camp-wide challenge.
62) Primer
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
159 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
While living with her latest set of foster parents, Ashley Rayburn mistakenly applies some found body paints which give her a wide range of special powers, but soon the military discovers what happened to their secret weapon and this puts Ashley and her newfound family and friends in danger.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1986
Physical Desc
xiii, 240 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses research on the nature of the creative process, in how humans view processes and objects, how humans use intuition, imagination, and insight in everyday life, and how these techniques can be used in problem-solving.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The latest research in child development shows that many kids who have the brain and heart to succeed lack or lag behind in crucial “executive skills”--the fundamental habits of mind required for getting organized, staying focused, and controlling impulses and emotions. Learn easy-to-follow steps to identify your child’s strengths and weaknesses, use activities and techniques proven to boost specific skills, and problem-solve daily routines....
66) The OK book
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A character enumerates a great many things that it enjoys doing, although not great at any of them, knowing that someday it will excel at something.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lami is the best chicken catcher in the whole village. And while her sister may be speedy at spelling, her friend fast at braiding hair, and her brother brave with bulls, when it comes to chickens, nobody is faster or braver than Lami. But then she chases a chicken all around and up a baobab tree and--ouch! How can Lami catch chickens with an ankle that's puffed up like an angry lizard? Could there be, as Nana Nadia says, another secret to catching...
68) Stellarlune
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 9
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With her friends divided and scattered, and the Black Swan wanting her to focus on their projects, Sophie is led in a different direction to Stellarlune, which might be their salvation or destruction, and learns the true meaning of power--and evil."--
Author
Series
Lorien legacies reborn volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
449 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When the United Nations takes drastic measures against the Human Garde to keep them in check, the students at the Academy must go on the offensive while those who have defected face off against a new and equally dangerous threat"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2015 Manoush Zomorodi, host of WNYC’s popular podcast and radio show Note to Self, led tens of thousands of listeners through an experiment to help them unplug from their devices, get bored, jump-start their creativity, and change their lives. Bored and Brilliant builds on that experiment to show us how to rethink our gadget use to live better and smarter in this new digital ecosystem. Manoush explains the connection between boredom and original...
Author
Language
English
Description
Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert’s books for years. Now this beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With profound empathy and radiant generosity, she offers potent insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She shows us how...
72) Freakling
Author
Series
Psi chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a traumatic accident removes his telekinetic ability, or psi, twelve-year-old Taemon is exiled to the "dud farm," where he is surprised to find kind, open people who enjoy using their hands but there are also mysteries at the colony and when Taemon unwittingly leaks one of the secrets he must find the courage to repair the damage, even if it means returning to the city from which he was banished.
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
169 pages : color illustrations ; 17 x 19 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Poor Bridgit, who overestimated the size of her head — her homemade frilly lace shower cap came straight down to her chin. And who can blame Lindsey for thinking “glitter shoes” sounded like a cool, easy project instead of what it turned out to be: a puddle of sparkling glop. And really, whoever posted that incredible Spaghetti-Stuffed Garlic Bread on Pinterest should be sued. When Mindy pulled hers from the oven, it looked like a “hot mess...
Author
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
311, [2] p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Somewhere in a future time and place, people have no names. Lovers find this inconvenient, so they begin naming each other. The two main characters settle on the following names: the woman is the Nakajima Miyuki Song Book, and the man, who teaches at a poetry school, is Sayonara, Gangsters. Their cat, who prefers milk-and-vodka and is a great fan of Aristotle, is named Henry IV. The first of the book's three parts tells the story of Sayonara, Gangsters's...
75) Meet Yasmin!
Author
Series
Yasmin volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In this compilation of four separately published books, Pakistani American second grader Yasmin learns to cope with the small problems of school and home, while gaining confidence in her own skills and creative abilities.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ursa possesses a very special gift: she can travel through memory and revisit her past. After she flees her hometown for the counterculture glory of 1950s California, the intoxicating potential of her unique ability eventually draws a group of women into her orbit and into a ramshackle Victorian mansion in the woods outside Santa Cruz. But Ursa's powers come with a cost"--
77) Weather or not
Author
Series
Upside-down magic volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When Willa's upside-down magic rains, it pours. Clouds form under ceilings. Classrooms get flooded. Umbrellas must always be nearby, just in case Willa has an outburst. Willa hates being the source of such sogginess. Even worse, the more she rains, the badder she feels ... and the badder she feels, the more she rains. All the storminess is threatening to drown her good grades and flood all her friendships. Is there any way to use magic to make the...
Author
Publisher
Yucca Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On a hotter and more volatile earth in the twenty-third century, humans like Clare and Jon live in utopia, hunting and gathering in small tribal bands, engaged in daily art and ritual, reunited with old friends like the shaggy mammoth and giant ground sloth. Even better, they still have solar-powered laptops and can communicate with each other around the world. The understanding of physics has also advanced. When scientists first cloned extinct species...
Author
Series
Arcane Society novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
In the latest novel based involving the mysterious late-Victorian Arcane Society - a secret organization devoted to paranormal research - Lucinda Bromley is a notorious lady botanist with a reputation for having poisoned an unwanted lover. Then, when she becomes passionately involved with a dangerous gentleman who uses his psychic talents to solve murders, she realises that her life is about to suddenly get even more complicated than before...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
250 pages : photographs (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Girls being fearless. Girls being silly. Girls being wild, stubborn, and proud. Girls whose faces are smeared with dirt and lit up with joy. So simple and yet so powerful, Strong Is the New Pretty celebrates, through more than 175 memorable photographs, the strength and spirit of girls being 100% themselves.
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