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Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Simon the cat is so old that most of his parts have stopped working, but just when he is ready to breathe his last breath, his family brings home a new kitten for him to raise.
9) Night noises
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Old Lily Laceby dozes by the fire with her faithful dog at her feet as strange night noises herald a surprising awakening.
11) Verdi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young python does not want to grow slow and boring like the older snakes he sees in the tropical jungle where he lives.
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"A brave book with a polemical argument on the paradoxes, struggles and advantages of aging. How old am I? Don't ask, don't tell. As the baby boomers approach their sixth or seventh decade, they are faced with new challenges and questions of politics and identity. In the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir, Out of Time looks at many of the issues facing the aged--the war of the generations and baby-boomer bashing, the politics of desire, the diminished...
15) Depression
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This program helps develop competence in dealing with mental health needs of clients. Part I of this program provides ideas and techniques to recognize depression and ways to motivate the depressed client. Part II provides tools for health care assistants to use in coping and motivating themselves when caring for the depressed patient.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Whilst the process of aging may reflect a time of great achievement, satisfaction and excitement for many, it is not uncommon for some older people to feel isolated and concerned about some aspects of their lives - past, present and future. For some, experiences of family isolation, social withdrawal, decline in health, role and status, death of partner, family members and friends creates a great sense of loss and grief. This Speaking from experience...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Written with love, told with joy. Very easy to enjoy."--Fredrik Backman, author of A Man Called Ove For fans of The Little Paris Bookshop and The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared comes a heartwarming debut about 96-year-old Doris, who writes down the memories of her eventful life as she pages through her decades-old address book. But the most profound moment of her life is still to come . . . Meet Doris, a 96-year-old woman...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Russian immigrant Malka arrives in 1913 Manhattan, where she struggles to survive and learns trade secrets from an Italian ices peddler before setting off across America in an ice cream truck with a handsome, illiterate radical to seek their fortunes.
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