J. Elizabeth Mills
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Girls and young women are bombarded with images of the ideal female, which vary greatly depending on the source. Unrealistic portrayals can wage war on the self-esteem. This book provides thoughtful, sensitive, and straightforward guidance on how to navigate toward a healthy and well-adjusted understanding of self-worth.
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Ken Griffey Sr. and Ken Griffey Jr. are two of the greatest baseball players of all time. Their success is in part due to the encouragement and support of family. This book, which is loaded with features including fascinating sidebars, explores the lives of these two baseball greats and how they achieved success on and off of the field.
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In 1692 in Colonial America, a frightening and unforgettable event took place: the Salem Witch Trials. Since then, people have been captivated by the idea of witches living among us, casting spells, and causing mischief. Some of those very real legends and how they have evolved into what we know of witches today, including Harry Potter and the Wizard of Oz, are explored in this exciting volume.
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Today's world is one where information can be shared instantly via the Internet, and new ways of communicating are being created every day. This book shows already Internet-savvy teens how to fully maximize fun elements like widgets, blogs, and wikis. Interesting facts are shared in sidebars and the resource section is fully loaded with suggestions for further exploration.
6) New York
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New York is a state rich in culture and industry. New York: Past and Present explores the broad topics of geography and history, but also touches on some finer details, such as influential New York natives, government, climate, and wildlife. With unique sidebars that touch on both the past and present!
7) Dash
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Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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"Jenny wants to barrel race at the rodeo. Is Dash fast enough to win?"--p. [4] of cover.
8) Belle
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Emmy has just moved from the country and had to leave her beloved horse behind, but Belle, an American quarter horse on which she takes riding lessons, helps her to get used to the noise and bustle of big city life. Includes a page with facts about the American Quarter Horse.
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Pub. Date
[2011]
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An introduction to creating web-based user-generated content for such things as social networking, sharing ideas, and creating online information, and discusses some of the online tools and Web sites for sharing information, including blogs, widgets, Twitter, Facebook, and wikis.
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Pub. Date
c2010
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Provides instructions for science experiments that use household materials, can be completed in fifteen minutes, and teach about the five senses, density, sound, the seasons, life cycles, weather, electricity, light, the solar system, landforms, matter, acids, and bases.
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2016.
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Do public library storytimes make a difference in helping children learn to read? Whether or not your funding depends on it, you need to prove that your programs do make a difference. In 2009 the iSchool of the University of Washington was awarded grants to assess the impact of early literacy storytimes in public libraries. One result: Project VIEWS2 launched "Supercharged Storytimes. Where will their experiences take you?
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2019.
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"This book is intended to give a broad overview of this radical landscape for public libraries in which librarians are creating innovative, interactive, participatory programming for children and youth by examining seven critical domains that occur across programming as a whole in part I and by taking an in-depth look at the different types of programs that are offered to children and youth that exemplify one of more of these domains in part II" --...
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From North America's mountains to Africa's deserts, this book will help kids learn the locations of states, countries, and continents around the world. They will also learn about the features that make up each region, including: What's growing in the Amazon Rainforest; The longest river in the world - the Nile in Africa; The "frozen T's" of Asia - the tundra and the taiga; Shelves of ice in Antarctica; The uniqueness of the Australian Outback; And...