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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Girl-powered baking-a challenging girls cookbook for ambitious bakers ages 8 to 12
Help young pastry pioneers take their baking skills to the next level. With this girls cookbook as a guide, they'll explore more than 30 different sweet treats to make from scratch-with only a little help from an adult.
Some of them are easy, and some take a little more practice, but all of them are fun, delicious, and designed for curious kids to try. From cakes...
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From helping others in times of need, to keeping and maintaining friendships, to having a positive attitude, Laura's words of wisdom in Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Wisdom and Virtues are applicable even in today's world. As she shares stories and experiences from her own life, she encourages readers to live lives of integrity and to realize their dreams.
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In Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Life As a Pioneer Woman, Laura tells her readers what it was like to be a pioneer in the early 1900s. Her stories and insights show us how difficult even the simplest chores or tasks were for the early pioneers, yet through it all she continued to see each situation as an adventure--as if she was truly blazing the trail for future generations.
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Even in the stillness of slumber, stories whirl around Munachi's head like great gusts of wind carrying message-filled notes addressed just to her, hoping that one day, a gust so strong will blast by and blow her into adventure. Try as she may, she simply cannot shush the swirling stories trapped inside her head.
How about you?
Have you ever been asked how you feel and not known the answer? Or felt lost in a familiar place?
This is Munachi. She's...
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Oatmeal cookies are so sweet, sabotage could be a delicious treat, but revenge makes the recipe complete. With nicknames like Muffin, Pudgy Face, or even Home Ec Pet, Ellie Gordoski didn't think life could get much worse. That is until she was oinked at in front of her secret crush. That's right, 'oink-oink', like a pig and in front of the boy of her dreams. The girl behind the 'oink' is Ashley Johnson, a bully to the max. But Ellie has decided to...
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Sometimes a person walks into your life and changes it forever.That is exactly what happened to fourteen-year-old Mayah Lewis.Depressed, she hides from the world, until she meets new girl, beautiful bald-headed Celeste Daniels. Her love of life, inspires Mayah to live again. Everything begins looking up, until one day, Celeste disappears.
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Meet third-grader Grace Stewart, who gets stuck with the name "Just Grace" when she tries to distinguish herself from the three other Graces in her class. Grace is plenty different, though. She has a "teeny-tiny superpower," for instance-she can tell if someone is unhappy and often tries to fix it. But sometimes her good intentions backfire... Join Just Grace as she deals with a missing cat, a new neighbor, and more in this delightfully funny three-book...
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"You Are Amazing, Girl" is a powerful and inspiring collection of stories that celebrates the courage, friendship, inner strength and self-confidence of young girls. This book features 10 different stories, each featuring a brave and resilient girl who overcomes obstacles and finds success in her own unique way. In this book, girls will find relatable characters and compelling narratives that encourage them to dream big and chase their passions. From...
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Loretta finds a leafcutter bee nest in her woodpile. She watches it. The bees hatch. The cut circles in the leaves and flowers on her rose bushes. She finds their new nest, and enjoys watching the bees in her garden. Illustrated instructions for building a bee nest included.
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In Writings to Young Women on Laura Ingalls Wilder: As Told by Her Family, Friends, and Neighbors, we see Laura through the eyes of those who knew her best. They tell of her insatiable love for reading and learning new things, her reactions to the fame from her best-selling children's series, and even which book she considered her favorite.
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Dragon girls volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"Three new girls share an incredible secret -- they can transform into powerful Sea Dragons when they travel to the Magic Forest! They must work together to banish the evil Fire Queen once and for all." --
16) Lady Susan
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Lady Susan is a short, epistolary novel by Jane Austen. Lady Susan Vernon is a selfish, attractive, and unscrupulous woman, who tries to trap the best possible husband while maintaining a relationship with a married man. As a widow, she seeks a match for herself, as well as husband-hunting for her daughter. Lady Susan is not only beautiful but intelligent and witty; she's highly attractive to men and her suitors are always significantly younger. Inspired...
17) A Girl Like Me
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Lerner Pubns
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! "[A] rallying cry for girls to reject limitations others might place on them and their dreams."—starred,The Horn Book Magazine"Once I dreamed I swam / the ocean / and saw everything deep,cool / and was part of the waves. / I swam on by the people / onshore /hollering, / 'A girl like you needs to / stay out of the water / and...
18) Leeva at last
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"What are people for? That's the burning question on the mind of Leeva Spayce Thornblossom. Fame! says Leeva's mom, the mayor of Nutsmore. Money! says her dad, the town treasurer. With the help of an orphaned badger, a risk-averse boy in a hazmat suit, and the town's librarians, Leeva sets off to discover her own answer--setting off a chain of events that will change Nutsmore forever"--Publisher.
19) Yasmin the vet
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Yasmin discovers an injured cat she immediately slips into the role of vet to care for the animal with the assistance of her grandmother, while her grandfather tries to contact the owner.
20) Spinning Away
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Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Magnolia has her own ideas about style, music, and-especially-about figure skating. Too bad her twin sister and her mother are stuck in a more conservative mode. Will Maggie find a way to justify the changes she wants to enact, or will she keep on spinning away?
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