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When tens of thousands of owls descend on her hometown library, rending and tearing at anyone foolish enough to step outside, Madigan Purdy, tasked with keeping her students safe, seeks inspiration from her favorite childhood book, The Silent Queen, to find a solution to their dilemma.
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"After calling off her engagement in wake of a tragic revelation, Yūko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old Manami. Now, following an accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yūko has given up and tendered her resignation. But first she has one last lecture to deliver. She tells a story that upends everything her students ever thought they knew about two of their peers, and sets in motion...
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"When Tokiko's parents break up, she and her father move from the bustling city to a sleepy coastal town to live with her grandmother. Starting sixth grade in a new school where everyone has known each other their whole lives isn't easy. Things start to look up when local boy Yosuke, another outsider, wants to be friends. But then strange memories start to surface. Swimming in the ocean ... Drowning ... Getting saved by ... a merman? Yosuke denies...
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A body burns in the high desert hills. A boy walks into a fire station, pale with the shock of a grisly discovery. A middle school teacher worries when her colleague is late for work. By day's end, when the body is identified as local math teacher Adam Merkel, a small Nevada town will be rocked to its core by a brutal and calculated murder. Adam Merkel left a university professorship in Reno to teach middle school in Lovelock seven months before he...
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Cardcaptor Sakura. Clear card volume 2
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"Strange things are afoot in Sakura's neighborhood again, beginning with the appearance of puzzling transparent cards in her dreams. Those same dreams have brought her a key that can capture the cards, but as Sakura begins to round up the troublemaking cards that are complicating her shiny new middle-school life, the mysteries only multiply-- beginning with the mystery of the new transfer student in her class..."--Page [4] of cover.
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Cardcaptor Sakura. Clear card volume 6
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"First published in Japan in 2019 by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo, as Kaadokyaputaa Sakura Kuriakaado Hen volume 5."--Colophon.
"As Yue confronts Syaoran about the secrets he's been keeping from Sakura, Sakura grows closer to Akiho. In order to help draw her solitary, book-loving friend out of her shell, Sakura invites Akiho over to show her her father's library. But when a powerful, unknown magical force suddenly descends upon the two girls, Sakura discovers...
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"Damaged finds Mary DiNunzio, partner at the all-female law firm of Rosato & DiNunzio, embroiled in one of her most heartbreaking cases yet. Suing the Philadelphia school district to get help for a middle school boy with emotional issues, Mary ends up becoming the guardian ad litem of her minor client. As she goes up against Nick Machiavelli, her opposing counsel and the dark prince of South Philly lawyers who will use any means necessary to defeat...
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"Boston, 1992. David Greenfeld is one of the few white kids at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School. Everybody clowns him, girls ignore him, and his hippie parents won't even buy him a pair of Nikes, let alone transfer him to a private school. Unless he tests into the city's best public high school--which, if practice tests are any indication, isn't likely--he'll be friendless for the foreseeable future. Nobody's more surprised than Dave when...
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"Invisible to her classmates, Hikage Sumino is an eighth grader with no self-esteem. Her only friends are the visitors to her Internet blog. One day, the most popular boy in the grade suddenly talks to her. Encouraged by this twist of fate, Hikage determines to transform her life. Includes special extras after the story!"--Page 4 of cover.
11) El chico nuevo
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Corren los años setenta en Washington D.C. cuando Osei Kokote, un chico de once años, se presenta por primera vez en su nuevo colegio. Hijo de un diplomático de Ghana, ha vivido siempre de ciudad en ciudad, dejando atrás amigos y hogares. Pero cuando conoce a los que van a ser sus compañeros, se encuentra con niños que han heredado, sin tener conciencia de ello, un cruel recelo hacia la gente de color, una desconfianza irracional contagiada...
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"For most of her fourteen years, Tasha Davis has languished in the rural-suburban town of Skillute, Washington. Her parents offer plenty of comfortable- if stifling- emotional support, but what she needs is a best friend. In her final years at Clark Middle School, Tasha meets a strange, new classmate. Briar Kenny is the self-styled rebel Tasha wants to be, and the Davises are the kind of close-knit family Briar covets. A moment of unexpected violence...
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Panorama de narrativas volume 890
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Es de noche y, ansiosa ante su primer dia como profesora de instituto, Celeste Price se masturba con furia. Asi arranca Las lecciones peligrosas. Celeste es joven y hermosa, y tiene un marido, Ford, que es policia y tan hermoso como ella pero supera en diecisiete anos la edad que acapara todo su interes sexual. En la escuela escogera al joven Jack, destinado a aplacar sus deseos.
Becoming a teacher to fulfill her passion for fourteen-year-old boys,...