Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
Español
Description
La vaca Byscocha y la luz azul lleva generosidad, reflexión sobre la responsabilidad con el medio ambiente como tema. Pero mientras tanto, varias situaciones llevan al miedo, sea ficticio o real. La mediación para conocer la importancia de esta emoción es una experiencia de vida que puede ayudar a formar una reacción adecuada para tener el miedo como aliado para la preservación de la vida, de la integridad.
14762) Stella Díaz Dreams Big
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In Stella Díaz Dreams Big, by award-winning author and illustrator Angela Dominguez, how will Stella fare when the waters get rough?
Stella is happy as a clam in fourth grade. She's the president of the Sea Musketeers conservation club, she starts taking swim lessons, and she joins a new art club at school. But as her schedule fills up, school gets harder, too. Suddenly the tides have turned, and she is way too busy!
Stella will be in an ocean...
Author
Series
Night flyer's handbook volume 2
Language
English
Description
The sequel to The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden. I wander around like any normal, paranoid, self-absorbed teenager. Do we all think we're being chased by deadly entities, I wonder? Probably, but how many of us actually are? Gwendolyn Golden, Night Flyer, floats over the cornfields all summer. What draws her to the same spot, night after night? All she knows is that change is coming: she's starting high school plus there's a strange new boy in town....
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Left across the Border tells the story of a foreigner with burning love. This is the mysterious story of a teen struggling with foreign affairs, separation, family and depression. This story of a teen's life takes an interesting mode. Will she have a better life in America? How will she free herself from pain? One must read the book to find the answers.
14766) Harlem Hustle
Author
Language
English
Description
Hustle's personal Harlem was sorely in need of a renaissance. For him, it was the place where a scared kid named Eric Samson had been ditched by druggy parents and dismissed by frustrated teachers.
Abandoned to the streets to raise himself, Eric Samson knows life won't be easy, beginning with the choices he must make. The fast cash of the streets still tempts him, but the threat of getting locked up — again — is daunting. Maybe Eric's way out...
Author
Language
Français
Description
Récit d'une rencontre inattendue
Marje est camionneuse depuis 25 ans. Avec son beau camion rouge, elle sillonne les routes. Entre lui et elle, c'est une grande histoire d'amour.
Kader a 16 ans. Abandonné par sa mère à 7 ans, il a connu les familles d'accueil et les ennuis avec la justice. Aujourd'hui, il vit dans un centre pour mineurs. Mais c'est une vraie tête brûlée qui n'a qu'une envie : se faire oublier.
Un jour, Kader décide de partir....
14768) Strays
Author
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Ted O'Connor's parents just died in a fiery car crash, and now he's stuck with a set of semi-psycho foster parents, two foster brothers -- Astin, the cocky gearhead, and C.W., the sometimes gangsta -- and an inner-city high school full of delinquents. He's having pretty much the worst year of his miserable life. Or so he thinks. Is it possible that becoming an orphan is not the worst thing that could have happened to him? Drawing...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Hold Tight, Don't Let Go follows the vivid story of two teenage cousins, raised as sisters, who survive the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti. After losing the woman who raised them in the tragedy, Magdalie and Nadine must fend for themselves in the aftermath of the quake. The girls are inseparable, making the best of their new circumstances in a refugee camp with an affectionate, lively camaraderie, until Nadine, whose father lives in Miami, sends...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Teach your child to help others! In this delightfully fun, rhyming book, Bob the Tomato encourages his friends, Larry and Joe, to lend a helping...hand? Ok, Veggies don't have hands...but kids do...and Bob wants to help them learn the importance of helping others! When Joe's mom breaks her big left toe, Bob decides to help. Larry and Joe offer their "superhero" help, too, but that's not exactly what Bob has in mind. Kids will discover, right along...
14771) The Prospect
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Nick Cosimo's teammates and coaches rely on his good instincts between the white lines. But when Nick spots a scout in the stands, everything changes. Will Nick alter his game plan to impress the scout?
14772) El pan de la guerra
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
Parvana es una chica de once aos que vive en Kabul, Afganistn, durante la poca del gobierno de los talibanes. Cuando su padre es detenido, su familia sin recursos para poder vivir-, buscar una solucin desesperada: Parvana, que por ser mujer tiene prohibido ganar dinero, deber transformarse en un chico.El pan de la guerra es un libro duro y realista que habla, con humanidad y fuerza, de la supervivencia, la familia, la amistad, la intolerancia y la...
Author
Language
Français
Description
Rosie est une adolescente de la campagne presque comme une autre. Sa tante, en lui offrant un journal intime, ouvre une fenêtre sur une âme moderne en perte de repères identitaires.
On y découvre les conflits d'une jeune fille avec la famille, la religion, les amitiés, les ruptures et surtout la rencontre avec le grand amour, celui qui bouleverse tout...
Author
Language
Français
Description
La douleur de la perte d'un être cher exprimée avec les mots d'une enfant.
« Personne ne peut revenir en arrière et créer un nouveau départ, mais tout le monde peut commencer aujourd'hui et créer une nouvelle fin. »
À la mort de sa mère, alors qu'elle n'est encore qu'une enfant, la vie de Mélissa s'écroule. Sans amis, délaissée par un père toujours absent, elle doit affronter la vie, seule. Avec courage et obstination, au fil...
Author
Language
English
Description
Expressing emotions can be a challenge, but the reward is far greater!
On Goddess Island, Halo has always been supported and loved by his friends. With his lightning powers, Halo knows how to do every technique to master the power of flame.
Drake struggles to perfect his powers of fire. With no support system, Drake doesn't know how to express his loneliness, and he lashes out and bullies Halo. Will Drake learn how to properly master both his powers...
14776) Don't Wash My Hair!
Author
Language
English
Description
Gracie's excitement over bath time comes to a screeching halt when Mommy says the unthinkable:
"Gracie, I have to wash your hair." Gracie endlessly asks why, and the whole family stops by the bathroom door to persuade her. Every night Gracie delays, and as the weekend rounds the corner, her strands are dirtier than ever. Everyone in the family has a reason for Gracie to let Mommy wash her hair, except Gracie...or so it seems! Will she ever let her...
14777) The Mouse Rap
Author
Language
English
Description
You can call me Mouse, 'cause that's my tag I'm into it all, everything's my bag my ace is Styx, he'll always do Add Bev and Sheri, and you got my crew...and a crew it is! For fourteen-year-old Mouse, this summer is anything but boring. His father, who checked out from the family eight years ago, is now trying to make a comeback as a dad. Beverly, a new girl from California, seems to like locking lips with the Mouse--but she seems to like other guys,...
14778) You Know You Love Me
Author
Series
Gossip Girl novels. Original series volume 2
Language
English
Description
The wickedly funny second book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit CW show starring Blake Lively.
It's brunette vixen Blair Waldorf's seventeenth birthday, and she knows exactly what she wants: Nate, her studly, troubled boyfriend of three years. But Blair's been too busy filling out Ivy League college applications to notice that Nate has found himself another playmate.
Author
Language
Français
Description
Une explosion de sentiments négatifs assaillent Bruno lorsqu'il commence sa cure sans alcool... Dépression, angoisse, colère vont ponctuer ses jours.
« L'alcool est à double tranchant », Bruno Raillard ne le sait que trop bien.
Quand le médecin lui révèle l'état de son foie, il prend un choix radical: arrêter l'alcool pendant un mois.
Sans rompre définitivement avec ses liens éthyliques étroits, il doit se reconstruire dans une société...
Author
Language
English
Description
Immigrant in Peril is the tragic and heartwarming account of Carl Tangeman's immigrant adventure. When his ship blew off course in a ferocious storm on the Atlantic Ocean, he began his heroic journey from New Orleans to New York across the American frontier. He faced a life-threatening disaster, nativism from Americans, learning a new language, finding a job and the challenge of understanding a different culture.
The author of Immigrant in Peril...
In Interlibrary Loan Catalog
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by MetroShare Consortium can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan Catalog libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request