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404341) Les Cinq Sens
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Français
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Extrait : "Dans l'antiquité, on portait beaucoup plus d'attention que de nos jours à la beauté des oreilles. Elien, qui nous a conservé dans ses écrits le portrait de la célèbre Aspasie, cite, parmi ses perfections, une oreille courte et bien détachée de la tête. Martial met au nombre des difformités d'une femme de son temps, celle d'avoir les oreilles trop longues. Cependant, les petites oreilles ne passèrent pas toujours pour être les...
404342) The Year Money Grew on Trees
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With frostbitten fingers, sleepless nights and sore muscles, 14-year-old Jackson Jones and his posse of cousins discover the lost art of winging it when they take over an orchard of 300 wild apple trees. They know nothing about pruning or irrigation or pest control, but figure it out they must-if they are to avoid losing $8,000 (because of an unfair contract). With spot illustrations for mechanical-loving readers-the gears of a tractor, a plow with...
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In this delightful Lumbee story, clever Rabbit outsmarts a selfish Great Snapping Turtle. When Rabbit discovers many animals could not find water, he sets out to solve the mystery. What he finds is the Great Snapping Turtle blocking the water of the Mother Spring. When the stubborn turtle refuses to move, Rabbit figures out a way to let the water flow. As the water flowed to all creatures, it also created the oceans of Turtle Island.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A touching story about a boy and his grandfather who enjoy a special relationship, until Abuelo starts to lose his memory. Instead of building model planes and cooking together, Luis and his father have to search the neighborhood for Abuelo, and Luis and Abuelo have to find new activities to enjoy together.
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Español
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This lush romantic drama depicts a family of cigar makers whose loves and lives are played out against the backdrop of America in the midst of the Depression. Set in Ybor City (Tampa) in 1930, Cruz imagines the catalytic effect of the arrival of a new "lector" (who reads Tolstoy's Anna Karenina to the workers as they toil in the cigar factory) has on a Cuban-American family. Cruz celebrates the search for identity in a new land.
404346) Practice Makes (Almost) Perfect
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Maria and Mateo are eager to start rehearsals for the school play. But it turns out there is much more to putting on a play than beautiful costumes and adoring fans. It takes sharing the spotlight, learning lines, and practicing difficult dance moves–and not all of those tasks are easy or fun. Can the cousins put in the work to make a crowd-pleasing performance?
Theater kids Maria and Mateo are two talented second graders who love the spotlight....
404347) The Roan Stallion
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In book two of the hi-lo series The Legend of Big Heart, Alfred Swallow meets a wild roan stallion. Not just any stallion, but a medicine hat roan stallion that is believed to have special powers. The bond between Alfred and the stallion reaches far into a world of hopes and dreams. It's 1929 and times are hard for Alfred's Lakota family on the Dakota prairie. Alfred knows his grandfather could use a new tractor, so with the help of his friends and...
404348) The Lyre and the Lambs
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A feast of family can be a plate load of problems!>/b>It's the Sixites. Modernity and tradition clash as two newlywed couples set up house together. Dee and her daughter Valerie move with their husbands into a modern glass house Valerie built in a proudly rural Los Altos, California, neighborhood.When their young relatives start showing up and moving in, the neighbors get suspicious. Then a body is found in the backyard and the life they are trying...
404349) Baking Buddies
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J.C. is craving cupcakes and so is Pop-Pop! But when baby Maya won't go down for her nap, J.C. and Pop-Pop have to get creative. Can they handle baking and babysitting at the same time?
404350) Yuna's Cardboard Castles
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English
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Fold, fit, tuck . . .
Yuna and her family have just moved to the United States, and she doesn't speak English yet. At first, her attempts to catch the attention of the neighborhood kids get lost in translation, but when she shows that she can do something very special with paper, a whole new world unfolds.
Marie Tang and Jieting Chen have brought Yuna's origami creations to life in this whimsical, magical picture book, where the language of play...
404351) The Second Life of Nathan Jones
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When one wrong step - and the poor timing of the number 19 bus - send Nathan Jones to the Edinburgh morgue his story should have ended...but then he went and woke up. Returned to real life Nathan finds a wife disappointed that he's miraculously returned from the dead and an unshakeable attraction for mortuary technician Kat - the woman who brought him back to life, in more ways than one. Now, as his world implodes and Kat leads him down an unexpected...
404352) Young Zorro: The Iron Brand
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Sandwiched between the ocean and the mountains surrounding the Pueblo de Los Angeles, wealthy Spanish caballeros live side by side with Native Americans. One boy with both Spanish and Indian blood belongs to both worlds. He is Diego de la Vega, who will one day wear the mask of Zorro.
As a boy Diego is more concerned with riding horses and making mischief with his best friend, Bernardo, than about fighting injustice. But when men start disappearing...
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Quelle est l'évolution de ce félin devenu aujourd'hui un animal domestique ?
Comme tous les animaux, le chat a une histoire, assortie de légendes noires ou dorées. Ce petit félin a également une préhistoire bien plus ancienne que celle de l'homme, et il en garde la mémoire. Enfin, les initiés prêtent sept vies au Chat, voire neuf.
C'est dire la richesse du personnage !
Cet ouvrage richement illustré vous propose de parcourir l'histoire...
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Réhabilitation d'un personnage des Évangiles
L'épisode de la rencontre du jeune homme riche avec Jésus est cité dans trois Évangiles ; il apparaît comme l'un des rares interlocuteurs historiques du Christ qui soit clairement identifié et n'est donc pas le personnage imaginaire d'une parabole.
Saint Marc, toujours bref, précise même que, ayant regardé ce jeune homme, Jésus l'aima.
L'auteur a donc imaginé que Saint Luc rencontre le jeune...
404355) Le beau du lion d'or
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Français
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Dans un royaume éloigné, un jeune aubergiste nommé Philippe tient l'établissement « Au Lion d'Or ». Lors de son service, il rencontre le prince Jules, et une passion intense naît entre eux. Invité à une fête villageoise par Jules, qui lui révèle ses sentiments, leur bonheur semble parfait. Cependant, Elektra, une femme arrogante, malveillante et maléfique, veut entraîner Philippe vers les ténèbres. L'amour de Philippe pour Jules l'en...
404356) The Vine Basket
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Things aren't looking good for fourteen-year-old Mehrigul. She yearns to be in school, but she's needed on the family farm. The longer she's out of school, the more likely it is that she'll be sent off to a Chinese factory... perhaps never to return. Her only hope is an American woman who buys one of her decorative vine baskets for a staggering sum and says she will return in three weeks for more. Mehrigul must brave terrible storms, torn-up hands...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In the 1840s, runaway slaves faced many dangers. They were often caught and sometimes killed. Ellen Craft and her husband William knew the risks. And they decided to take a chance. Ellen and William had a daring plan to escape from slavery. Posing as a white man, Ellen hoped to travel north as William's slave master. But the two had many states to cross. Would they reach freedom? Or would someone see through Ellen's disguise? In the back of this book,...
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Case #101--1:25 pm
Veggie detectives, Bob and Larry, are called to the scene of a messy crime already in progress. But they arrive too late-the bedroom of Junior Asparagus is already seriously messy. It's time to uncover the messy truth. Who did it? Was it Junior? Or could it have been a gang of nasty Slobsters, led by the notorious Slobfather-the mastermind of all messes? Kids will enjoy being a part of the investigation as they find out who's really...
404359) When My Cousins Come to Town
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A fun, lively story of Black family and cousin culture that celebrates individuality and embraces differences.
Fitting in can be hard, but standing out isn't easy either!
Every summer a young girl eagerly waits for her cousins to come visit and celebrate her birthday. All her cousins are unique in their own ways and have earned cool nicknames for themselves... except for the girl. But this year things are going to be different. This year before...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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It only takes a few hours for Turner Buckminster to start hating Phippsburg, Maine. No one in town will let him forget that he's a minister's son, even if he doesn't act like one. But then he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a smart and sassy girl from a poor nearby island community founded by former slaves. Despite his father's-and the town's-disapproval of their friendship, Turner spends time with Lizzie, and it opens up a whole new world to him, filled...
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