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Life entrepreneurs
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Christopher Gergen |
"An inspirational and practical guide for anyone who wants to incorporate the dynamic skills of entrepreneurs into their own lives and work. A new generation of "life entrepreneurs" is emerging: pe… |
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Belle of Batoche
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Jacqueline Pearce |
The story of the Riel Rebellion from a Metis point of view. |
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The Other Normals
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Ned Vizzini |
"A boy is sent to camp to become a man--but ends up on a fantastical journey that will change his life forever"--Provided by publisher. |
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My life as a joke
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Janet Tashjian |
Derek Fallon has turned twelve and he thinks now his life will start being cool. A series of humorous misfortunes and embarrassments quickly cure him of that delusion. |
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The Shrinking of Treehorn
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Florence Parry Heide,Edward Gorey |
"If you want to pretend you're shrinking, that's all right," said Treehorn's mother, "as long as you don't do it at the table." But Treehorn wasn't pretending. He really was shrinking.
Hilarious c… |
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The End of Youth
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Rebecca Brown |
*The End of Youth* is a collection of 13 linked stories, essays and rants, about carrying on after youth’s hope is gone. In "Afraid of the Dark," a child learns that there is good reason to be afraid… |
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Juvenescence
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Robert Pogue Harrison |
How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. And we age withi… |
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Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me
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Julie Johnston |
Fifteen-year-old Sara Moone, abandonded at birth and shunted from one foster home to another, finds that she cannot remain aloof from her latest family. |
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Little Faith
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Nickolas Butler |
"A Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith when one of their own falls under the influence of a radical church"--
Lyle Hovde lives a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin … |
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Gut!
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Sunil Godse |
Like a bolt of lightning, intuition strikes and in an instant, lives are changed forever. Have you ever wondered why intuition helps you make the right decision at the right time, or why ignoring you… |
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We don't have to be friends
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Grant Nolin |
"Bonnie is thrilled to find work with a movie company, until she discovers a troubling hostility while working with Hollywood's hottest teen star" Cf. Our choice, 1996-1997. |
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Franklin and his friend
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Scholastic,Paulette Bourgeois,Brenda Clark,Sharon Jennings |
When his friend Otter comes to visit, Franklin finds it hard to accept the fact that they have both grown up and may have to discard their childish ways. |
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If I die before I wake
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Jean Little |
A girl named Fiona Macgregor experiences the 1918 flu epidemic firsthand. |
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Alice, I Think
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Susan Juby |
Fifteen-year-old Alice keeps a diary as she struggles to cope with the embarrassments and trials of family, dating, school, work, small town life, and a serious case of "outcastitis." |
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Sixteen
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Megan McCafferty,M. T. Anderson,M McCafferty |
An incredible anthology of 16 short-stories by award winning & critically acclaimed young-adult authors, inspired by all the angst, melodrama, and wonderment of being sixteen. These hilarious, poigna… |
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Given ground
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Ann Pancake |
"Departing from Appalachia's 150-year-old literary legacy of formula and caricature, West Virginia native Ann Pancake uses the texture of language, an intense attention to place, and complexity of ch… |
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Dear Canada
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Julie Lawson |
Kate's father is a builder for the Canadian Pacific Railway as it snakes across the mountains and through the Fraser Canyon. Everyone is excited about the "Iron Horse", but building the railroad is a… |
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Becoming Ruby
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Kathy Stinson |
As she develops new sexual feelings and watches her relationships with her family and with boys change, fifteen-year-old Ruby Nan Larkin struggles to understand her mother's persistent disapproval. G… |
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Raymond and Graham, dancing dudes
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Mike Knudson |
Fourth-grade best friends Raymond and Graham write Valentine poems, perform in a hoedown, and learn how to be men. |
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The Littlest One
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Halya Kruk |
Yurchyk, the smallest member of the family, tries to be bigger by climbing on things. He learns that he becomes bigger by doing something "big", not by being taller. It is very difficult to be the y… |
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