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When Fernando's coach tells him to steal second base, he's worried because he's never done it before. He get tagged out and feels like he let his team down. Luckily, his baseball-loving family is on hand to help out. Fernando practices with his family and learns how to steal bases in order to help his team at their next game.
2) Mystery club
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The kids of the Mystery Club take on two cases. First they follow clues around the city searching for evidence of werewolf activity. Then the kids investigate mummy sightings on the subway.
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Twelve-year-old Violet Crane is the only child in a broken home, with a mother who is increasingly scared of leaving the house. When a new family with five boisterous children (and a dog) moves in next door, Violet is convinced that they must be the happiest family in the whole world. They cheerfully include Violet in their games, but as school starts, Violet realizes that even happy families have their problems, and that twelve-year-old Reggie (the...
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Military child Airi Sano is excited her family is finally settling down in Hawaii for a long-term stay, after moving from base to base and school to school all her life. However, Airi experiences trouble at her new school when she realizes her teacher is determined to make her like learning. Airi is equally determined to prove the opposite and starts a prank war with Mrs. Ashton. When things escalate too far, Airi realizes she may have alienated the...
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When the teddies head back into the dangerous world to seek the secrets of their creation, they discover that the founder of Furrington Industries, known as the Suit, is on trial, and while at the courthouse, they learn the true, incendiary reason the teddies were thrown away.
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Tay Daniels is addicted to playing RPG video games, and when she notices her friend Sela growing distant in real life, she tries to connect with her inside her favorite video game. The two get themselves in over their heads when they discover that everyone except them have fallen asleep. Tay and Sela realize they are trapped inside the video game, and they must work together in order to escape.
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Provides a true account of the sinking of the RMS "Laconia" off the West African coast during World War II. Describes the German submarine that attacked the ship holding Italian prisoners of war, the German effort to rescue all the shipwrecked, and the American bomber that dropped bombs over the scene. Also discusses how those who survived stayed alive for weeks in shark-infested waters. Includes black-and-white photographs, a map, and a glossary....
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Fourteen-year-old Tell and twelve-year-old Wren live with their father in a remote snowy mountain village that survives by mining precious black glass and selling it to magic purveyors in the town of Halfway. After their father is blinded while procuring a thin sheet of valuable sorcerer's glass, the laws dictate he has thirty days to recover or be abandoned to die on the snowy slopes. Determined to keep their family together, Tell and Wren make the...
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Simple text accompanies black and white line drawings showing, first, a young child sitting on a stool in front of a door waiting for his beloved uncle to visit. The child imagines all the fun things he will get to do with his uncle when he arrives, but that never happens--his uncle has been forcibly disappeared, and the boy is still waiting even into his old age.
12) Asistente legal
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Explores the responsibilities, skills, education, and salary of legal assistants. Includes color photographs, fact boxes, a glossary, and additional resources.
15) Phalaina
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In Victorian London, a strange girl named Manon lives at a convent orphanage after the death of her parents. She is mute, has red eyes, and seems to be followed by a series of violent deaths. Now she is hunted by someone who wants to know where she comes from and what she is. In order to stay alive, Manon flees and joins up with a street poet named Molly and her dog. Meanwhile, her late father's letters to his friend Charles Darwin reveal the truth...
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After moving to Washington D.C. to live with her congressman father, ten-year-old Fina learns of the curse of the Demon Cat of Capitol Hill. When her family begins experiencing bad luck after she encounters a cat in the Capitol Crypt, Fina decides to get to the bottom of the mystery with help from new friend, an orange dog named Senator Something. Includes a QR code that links to additional online resources.
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Childhood friends, Rudolf Vrba and Gerta Sidonovâa were just teenagers growing up in Slovakia when Adolf Hitler and the German Nazis began invading countries across Europe. While nineteen-year-old Rudi was captured and sent to Auschwitz, Gerta and her family escaped to Hungary where they changed their names and posed as Catholics. With determination and cunning, Rudi managed to stay alive for two years and he and fellow prisoner, twenty-four-year-old...
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Explores the inner workings of the universe, from the smallest atoms and cells up through appliances and technology, machines, towns, cities, planets, solar systems, galaxies, and black holes. Features detailed diagrams and illustrations, paired with photographs, that take things apart and show how they work on the inside an in interaction with other objects.