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by Nadia L. Hohn
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018

Learn about the inspiring life of Harriet Tubman in this early reader biography. Harriet Tubman was a brave woman who was born enslaved in Maryland in the 1800s. After risking everything to escape from her slave master and be free, Harriet went on to lead many people to freedom on a journey...
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Tweak

Growing Up on Methamphetamines

by Nic Sheff
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009

The story that inspired the major motion picture Beautiful Boy featuring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.** This New York Times bestselling memoir of a young man’s addiction to methamphetamine tells a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery. Nic...
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Chinese Cinderella

The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

by Adeline Yen Mah
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2009

More than 800,000 copies in print! ** ** From the author of critically acclaimed and bestselling memoir Falling Leaves, this is a poignant and moving true account of her childhood, growing up as an unloved daughter in 1940s China. A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to their...
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by Jacqueline Woodson
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014

**Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature A New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Winner** Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Another Brooklyn*, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse.*   Raised...
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We All Fall Down

Living with Addiction

by Nic Sheff
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011

Along with We All Fall Down, Nic Sheff's Tweak and his father's memoir about him Beautiful Boy, are the basis of the upcoming film Beautiful Boy, starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet. In his bestselling memoir Tweak, Nic Sheff took readers on an emotionally gripping roller-coaster ride...
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by Leonel CASTELLANOS
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 12, 2013

Este nuevo libro te va a cambiar la vida. Finalmente un hombre se decide a decir que es lo que quieren, buscan y desean ellos, cómo encontrarlos, atraparlos, y lograr que se comprometan, eL ''por qué'' de las cosas que hacen y que las mujeres no entienden, cómo evitar patanes y mujeriegos, y todo...
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by Casey Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011

Is It Nice? Manners For Kids was written to help young children behave in different situations. Its colorful illustrations and easy to understand messages make it easy for readers to learn the nice thing to do in everyday life. What should you do after you burp? Is it nice to yell or whine when you want something? These questions and others are answered for a great learning experience.
Cover of Quiúbole con... Edición Reloaded (Hombres) Capítulo de regalo
by Yordi Rosado, Gaby Vargas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 2, 2016

Gaby Vargas y Yordi Rosado te entregan este libro corregido, aumentado y súper actualizado, para que tomes mejores decisiones y hagas de tu adolescencia la etapa más divertida e inolvidable de tu vida. ¡Peligro mantenga a las mujeres lejos de este libro! Bienvenido al mundo de la...
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by Nikki Grimes
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2003

When Wesley Boone writes a poem for his high school English class, some of his classmates clamor to read their poems aloud too. Soon they're having weekly poetry sessions and, one by one, the eighteen students are opening up and taking on the risky challenge of self-revelation. There's Lupe Alvarin,...
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Do Hard Things

A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations

by Alex Harris, Brett Harris
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008

A generation stands on the brink of a "rebelution." "Most people don't expect you to understand what we're going to tell you in this book. And even if you understand, they don't expect you to care. And even if you care, they don't expect you to do anything about it. And even...
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by Yona Zeldis McDonough, Who HQ
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010

In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights protests across America and earned Rosa Parks the title "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement." This biography has black-and-white illustrations throughout.
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I Am a Star

Child of the Holocaust

by Inge Auerbacher
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1993

The Nazis tried to destroy Inge's life--but they could not break her spirit. Inge Auerbacher's childhood was as happy and peaceful as any other German child's--until 1942. By then, the Nazis were in power, and because Inge's family was Jewish, she and her parents were sent to a concentration...
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by Francisco Jiménez
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002

At the age of fourteen, Francisco Jiménez, together with his older brother Roberto and his mother, are caught by la migra. Forced to leave their home in California, the entire family travels all night for twenty hours by bus, arriving at the U.S. and Mexican border in Nogales, Arizona. In the months...
Cover of El efecto Leopi - conquista hoy la mente, el corazón y el cuerpo de cualquier persona 2a ed.
by Leonel CASTELLANOS, CUARTERO, Julio; ORBEGOZO ARANA
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 20, 2014

Esta es la segunda edición del best-seller eL efecto Leopi. Un libro, un manual, una autobiografía y una historia que parece de ciencia ficción, pero es real y funciona.Una guía que además de entretenerte, te llenará de técnicas, tips y herramientas para encontrar, conocer, atraer y conquistar...
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