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"In Relationship Skills 101 for Teens, best-selling author of Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens, Sheri Van Dijk offers teens powerful tools to regulate their emotions and create better relationships--whether it's with parents, friends and peers, or dates. Using skills based in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), teens will learn to take control of their emotions and reactions in order to respond effectively to peer pressure, bullying,...
43) King Lear
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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
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Alice's adventures begin as she lies on a grassy bank one sunny afternoon. After following the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole she meets all kinds of strange and wonderful characters. She talks with the Cheshire Cat, swims with the Mouse, takes tea with the Mad Hatter and plays croquet with the Queen.
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father, a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man, has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey - first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration...
46) The racketeer
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Who is the racketeer? And what does he have to do with the judge's untimely demise? His name is Malcolm Bannister, a former attorney now incarcerated at the Federal Prison Camp near Frostburg, Maryland. When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge...
49) Cat
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"Explore the world of the cat, discovering the wonders of both wild cats and domesticated breeds. Find out about fearsome feline predators, super-sharp senses, and common cat characteristics." -- Back cover.
51) The runaway jury
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In Biloxi, Mississippi, a woman sues a tobacco company for the death of her husband from lung cancer. The protagonists are a jury fixer, that is a lawyer whose role is to assure a jury favorable to the company, and a rogue juror whom the fixer cannot eliminate or control. This is a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake which begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at...
52) Just so stories
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Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include "How the Whale Got His Throat, " "The Elephant's Child, " "How the Alphabet Was Made, " and "The Butterfly that Stamped."
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Recounts the life of Balto, the sled dog who saved Nome, Alaska in 1925 from a diphtheria epidemic by delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm. A compelling account, told in easy-to-read format, of a sled dog who led his team over 53 miles of Alaska wilderness to deliver medicine during an outbreak of diptheria in 1925.
54) Vanity fair
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A deliciously satirical attack on a money-mad society, Vanity Fair, which first appeared in 1847, is an immensely moral novel, and an immensely witty one. Vanity Fair features two heroines: the faithful, loyal Amelia Sedley, and the beautiful and scheming social climber Becky Sharp. It also engages a huge cast of wonderful supporting characters as the novel spins from Miss Pinkerton's academy for young ladies to affairs of love and war on the Continent...
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The Great Panda Tale is a beautifully designed reader all about a very special delivery at the zoo. Children will love to find out about the baby pandas - from taking care of the panda mother to the arrival and lives of the tiny cubs.
56) Maniac Magee
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After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
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A criminal feigns insanity and is admitted to a mental hospital, where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse and tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world. A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse Ratched. McMurphy swaggers into...
59) Johnny Tremain
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Brash young apprentice Johnny Tremain, injured in an accident that leaves him unable to practice his trade, becomes involved with Rab, a Boston printer, who draws Johnny with him into the events of the Revolutionary War.