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Common Core 1st Grade Reading is a set of high-quality, nationally-accepted, academic standards in reading. These learning goals outline what a student should know and be able to do before entering 2nd grade. This first in a series of programs covers weeks one through nine of first Grade, where kids learn 22 sight words, such as could, know, every, etc. Join young host Julianna, who explains what high-frequency nouns are, and enthusiastically presents...
4) The jungle
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It was four o‟clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive. There had been a crowd following all the way, owing to the exuberance of Marija Berczynskas. The occasion rested heavily upon Marija‟s broad shoulders- it was her task to see that all things went in due form, and after the best home traditions; and, flying wildly hither and thither, bowling every one out of the way, and scolding and exhorting all day with her tremendous...
6) Catch-22
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Catch-22 is one of this century's greatest works of American literature. First published m 1961, Joseph Heller's profound and compelling novel has appeared on nearly every list of must read fiction. It is a classic in every sense of the word. Catch-22 took the war novel genre to a new level, shocking us with its clever and disturbing style. Set in a World War II American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of John Yossarian,...
7) The notebook
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HPL Alzheimer's Awareness Month 2023
OBD Alzheimer's Disease and Awareness Month (June) - ADULT
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OBD Alzheimer's Disease and Awareness Month (June) - ADULT
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In a Southern nursing home, an 80-year-old man reads from his diary to his wife, suffering from Alzheimer's. It's the story of their teenage romance, followed by years of separation because he was from the wrong class, followed by her decision, on his return from World War II, to be her own woman and marry him. Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned...
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Frog and Toad books volume 3
I can read book and cassette volume level 2
I can read book and CD
I can read picture book
I can read book and cassette volume level 2
I can read book and CD
I can read picture book
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Explore the Classics - YOUTH
OBD Christmas Chapter/ Nonfiction Books - Youth
OBD Frogs! - YOUTH
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OBD Christmas Chapter/ Nonfiction Books - Youth
OBD Frogs! - YOUTH
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Two friends share experiences in each season of the year. "Down the Hill": Frog gets Toad to try sledding down a hill with him and he enjoys the adventure until he realizes Frog has fallen off, then Toad decides Winter is best spent inside. "The Corner": One rainy day Frog tells the story about how he found Spring just around the corner. "Ice Cream": Toad buys a chocolate ice cream cone for himself and Frog, but it's a very hot day and a long trip...
10) 22 seconds
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Women's Murder Club volume 22
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"22 seconds ... until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge--or her life. SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer has guns on her mind. There's buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive gun laws. Before Lindsay can act, her top informant tips her to a case that hits disturbingly close to home. Former cops. Professional hits. All with the same warning scrawled on their bodies: You talk, you die. Now it's Lindsay's...
11) Mouse soup
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"Weasel is ready for his dinner, and poor Mouse is it. Can Mouse stop Weasel from serving up mouse soup for supper? The clever mouse tells the weasel four stories to make the soup tasty and then manages to trick the weasel and get home safely. This Level Two I Can Read is geared toward kids who read on their own but still need a little help."--
12) Bear wants more
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Bear books (Karma Wilson) volume 2
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When spring comes, Bear wakes up after hibernating. He is very hungry and is treated to great food by his friends.
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Children's Authors and Illustrators Week
Explore the Classics - YOUTH
OBD 1000 Books Before Kindergarten - YOUTH
Explore the Classics - YOUTH
OBD 1000 Books Before Kindergarten - YOUTH
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Mike proves that, although dated, his steam shovel is still useful.
When Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Mary Anne, lose their jobs to the gasoline, electric, and diesel motor shovels, they find a new opportunity in a very surprising place.
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'Miss Dashwood had a delicate complexion, regular features, and a remarkably pretty figure. Marianne was still handsomer. Her form, though not so correct as her sister's ... was more striking' As the title of Jane Austen's first published novel suggests, the difference between two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, lies not only in their appearance but also in their temperament. Yet Sense and Sensibility not only contrasts Elinor's good sense,...
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Friendship Stories
GPLD 2023 Fall Favorites: Beginning Readers
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Friendship Stories
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The adventures of best friends Frog and Toad, including Frog's suffering a bad cold and Toad's embarrassment over his unflattering bathing suit, are accompanied by material on the origins of books in the "I Can Read" series.
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"First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads-- driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human...
18) Blubber
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Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it is like when she, too, becomes a target.
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Hannah has felt as bitter as November in Minnesota since Ross vanished without a trace and left their marriage in limbo. Still, she throws herself into a baking frenzy for the sake of pumpkin pie and Thanksgiving-themed treats while endless holiday orders pour into The Cookie Jar. Hannah even introduces a raspberry Danish pastry to the menu, and P.K., her husband's assistant at KCOW-TV, will be one of the first to sample it. But instead of taking...
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 22
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Using their magic tree house, Jack and Annie travel back to the time of the American Revolution and help General George Washington during his famous crossing of the Delaware River.