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82) When I grow up
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Who's that on the job? Read the clues, then lift the flaps to find out. Meet six people around town you might want to be when you grow up!
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It's springtime on Bradford Street and twins Jada and Jamal Perkins are helping their parents with yardwork as they look for signs of spring, When their teacher tells them about the town's plans to plant new trees at school in celebration of Earth Day, Jada and Jamal and their best friends, Carlita and Josh, come up with a school beautification project of their own"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The day after future NBA superstar Chris Paul signed his letter of intent to play college basketball for Wake Forest, he received a world-shattering phone call. His grandfather, Nathaniel "Papa" Jones, a pillar of the Winston-Salem community where he owned and operated the first Black-owned service station in North Carolina, was mugged and ultimately died from a heart attack resulting from the assault. His funeral filled the largest church in the...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Description
"The author's search for the annihilated Polish community captured in his grandfather's 1938 home movie. Traveling in Europe in August 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, David Kurtz, the author's grandfather, captured three minutes of ordinary life in a small, predominantly Jewish town in Poland on 16 mm Kodachrome color film. More than seventy years later, through the brutal twists of history, these few minutes of home-movie footage...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From firefighter to aid worker, from police officer to mountain rescue worker, mommies and daddies do all kinds of jobs in all kinds of places, but there's one thing every child knows for sure - they're heroes!
89) Fadeaway
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a high school basketball star goes missing overnight after thousands watched him secure the title for his team, his best friend, his conflicted ex-girlfriend, and his devastated younger brother search for clues that expose deeply hidden community secrets.
92) Island birthday
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As Alex anxiously awaits the plane that will bring a birthday present from his grandmother, he goes visiting in his island community and discovers that others are at least as eager for the storm to clear so that they can get items they need or want.
Author
Publisher
Walter Foster Jr., an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Be the Change! gives you the tools and encouragement needed to be the change you wish to see in the world. From the popular founders of Hello!Lucky stationery, this guidebook offers instruction and guidance to spark creativity and inspire action in your local communities. First learn how to get inspired and how to inspire others, as well as the importance of embracing diverse perspectives and how to handle conflict diplomatically. Then discover how...
Author
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
How do we bring people together when our society is breaking apart? What will it take to bridge our divides, overcome mistrust, and restore our belief that we can get things done together as Americans? How do we bring out the best in us? In Stepping Forward, Richard C. Harwood gives us a new and inspiring blueprint to rediscover what we share in common and actively build upon it. As a trusted civic voice, he argues that to get the country moving in...
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