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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection Part of Niki Daly's Lolo series Hooray! Hurrah! Hurray! for Lolo, the energetic, curious, and fun-loving girl at the center of Niki Daly's series of books for beginning readers. She's thoughtful, funny, and always ready for anything. Whether it's helping to babysit baby Bongi or learning all about the library, she's sure to do it with kindness and humor. In this collection of easy-to-read stories, we meet Lolo, a girl who lives in South Africa with her mother and grandmother, Gogo. Charmingly illustrated by the author, Hooray for Lolo follows Lolo as she explores her world, and the new adventures each day brings. In Hooray for Lolo, Lolo gets angry with her best friend, finds a favorite library book, goes to the hospital, and helps to look after Baby Bongi.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection Part of Niki Daly's Lolo series Hooray! Hurrah! Hurray! for Lolo, the energetic, curious, and fun-loving girl at the center of Niki Daly's series of books for beginning readers. She's thoughtful, funny, and always ready for anything. Whether it's helping to babysit baby Bongi or learning all about the library, she's sure to do it with kindness and humor. In this collection of easy-to-read stories, we meet Lolo, a girl who lives in South Africa with her mother and grandmother, Gogo. Charmingly illustrated by the author, Hooray for Lolo follows Lolo as she explores her world, and the new adventures each day brings. In Hooray for Lolo, Lolo gets angry with her best friend, finds a favorite library book, goes to the hospital, and helps to look after Baby Bongi.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Build a better, richer life by following thirty-two lessons that lead to happiness.Imagine a life where you are financially savvy and independent, living with purpose and generosity while inspiring others. Holistic Wealth will teach you to master these tenets of a happy and joyful life, giving you a greater sense of wholeness and resilience in times of difficulty.By expanding on the teachings shared in her viral article>My Husband Died at 34. Here Are 40 Life Lessons I Learned From It, author Keisha Blair presents revolutionary strategies that will help you find balance and success. By following actionable, comprehensive steps from experts in a wide array of fields, this engaging book will guide you on your path to serenity.Holistic Wealth teaches you how to find prosperity in key aspects of life, from financial stability and physical health to your emotional and spiritual connections with others. Cultivating these strengths will build the mental toughness and grit you need to weather life's inevitable storms and setbacks.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Build a better, richer life by following thirty-two lessons that lead to happiness.Imagine a life where you are financially savvy and independent, living with purpose and generosity while inspiring others. Holistic Wealth will teach you to master these tenets of a happy and joyful life, giving you a greater sense of wholeness and resilience in times of difficulty.By expanding on the teachings shared in her viral article>My Husband Died at 34. Here Are 40 Life Lessons I Learned From It, author Keisha Blair presents revolutionary strategies that will help you find balance and success. By following actionable, comprehensive steps from experts in a wide array of fields, this engaging book will guide you on your path to serenity.Holistic Wealth teaches you how to find prosperity in key aspects of life, from financial stability and physical health to your emotional and spiritual connections with others. Cultivating these strengths will build the mental toughness and grit you need to weather life's inevitable storms and setbacks.…

Zustand: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. A 2024 Skipping Stones Honor Award Winner Hi!! I'm Epi Dermis, but my friends just call me Skin! Raise your hands if you sweat, tan, itch, have hair, or have freckles! I've been feeling pretty sensitive lately because everybody has something to say about me. But people don't always tell the truth. My color doesn't make me fast, strong, smart, or scary. I just want to shout, "It's just skin, silly!"  "[A]n irresistibly brilliant, pitch-perfect page-turner that should be a must-read in every Pre-K and Elementary School in our country." ? Henry Louis Gates Jr An illustrated children's book on the evolution of skin color, based on a collective 40+ years of peer-reviewed research from expert anthropologist Dr. Nina Jablonski and historian Dr. Holly Y. McGee, with a special foreword from celebrated literary critic and historian Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Meet Epi Dermis, your kid's quirky, clever guide to the origin of skin color! Using simple science and interactive activities, Epi takes readers on an adventure through human history to find out why skin is the hardest working organ in the body business. Whether it?s how migration and climate changed our skin's need for melanin, to why sweat is your body?s secret superpower, Epi?s got all the facts?and uses them to challenge false narratives about race and give kids the information they need to do the same. Vermeulen, Karen (illustrator).…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Shaka struggles to retain power as challenges at home and from across an ocean threaten his new rule.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A 2024 IBBY Honour List Selection  A CBC Spring 2024 Showcase Selection In the final years of South Africa?s Apartheid era, an unlikely trio?a sheltered white rugby player, a black farmworker?s son, and an Indian shopkeeper?s daughter?discover the consequences of knowing the truth and having the courage to speak it. Halley?s Comet is the coming-of-age story of Pete de Lange, a white 16-year-old schoolboy, set in small-town South Africa in 1986. Pete lives a relatively sheltered life, primarily concerned with girls and rugby? until one January night changes everything. Thrust together with two complete strangers?Petrus, a black farmworker?s son and Sarita, an Indian shopkeeper?s daughter?the trio find themselves running for their lives from the vicious Rudie, whose actions will ripple far beyond that fateful night. This era-defying friendship?sparked by a shared secret? challenges everything Pete thought he knew and believed. And when anti-Apartheid revolutionaries set their sights on the town, it will change the course of the three young people?s lives forever. Halley?s Comet is a story of friendship, love, change, taking chances, hope, a comet, and some pretty cool 80s music.…

Zustand: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Revised. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A Children?s Book Council 2026 TEACHER FAVORITES AwardWinner of the TIL?s Jean Flynn Award for Best Young Adult Book  A Booklist Starred Review  A big-hearted coming-of-age debut about a tiger, a Russian, a model airplane, unexplainable disaster, and a bewildered twelve-year-old boy just trying to find his place in the world. It?s 1981 in Texarkana, Texas, and Noah Ellis is trying hard to remember. Still reeling from the loss of his father in a suspicious tragedy, Noah is in a tragedy of his own?one that results in another inexplicable death, this time leaving Noah to suffer from severe amnesia.  After that day, everything changes. Noah becomes an unwitting star in a highly publicized trial. Girls start to notice him, and kids who once bullied him now allow him to run with their pack?at a cost. Standing as always in his big brother?s shadow, Noah also has a little sister he must look out for. But Noah?s still stuck on that day and the accident he can?t remember. As town secrets come to light and summer draws to a close, Noah must find a way to salvage all that he?s lost, and to learn what is truly precious.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. From Author Jane Kurtz, winner of the School Library Journal Best Of The Year and numerous other awards.  In verse, Oh Give Me a Home relates the story of a girl?s inside-out view of America as she journeys from Ethiopia, searches for friends and belonging. Kirkus Starred Review  Booklist Starred Review Selected as a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Book.  In elementary school, Jane knows that Maji, Ethiopia, cool and green, perched on a mountainside of waterfalls and monkeys, is the perfect place to live. Or it would be perfect if she had a pet or a best friend. Jane is full of ideas that include schemes for an animal to play with. A real pet, not the dik dik that dies, the monkey that tries to bite her fingers, nor the elusive cat that lives in the shed and has just absconded with her litter of kittens. But her plans are derailed as Jane learns she is to move back to America with her family. America and Africa collide as Jane tries to answer the simple question, ?Where am I from?? Entering grade school in suburban America for the first time, will she find a best friend a continent away from her real life in Africa? Or is America?where she meets her relatives for laughter and frolicking and big holiday meals?her real home.…

Paperback. Zustand: Like New. From Author Jane Kurtz, winner of the School Library Journal Best Of The Year and numerous other awards.  In verse, Oh Give Me a Home relates the story of a girl?s inside-out view of America as she journeys from Ethiopia, searches for friends and belonging. Kirkus Starred Review  Booklist Starred Review Selected as a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Book.  In elementary school, Jane knows that Maji, Ethiopia, cool and green, perched on a mountainside of waterfalls and monkeys, is the perfect place to live. Or it would be perfect if she had a pet or a best friend. Jane is full of ideas that include schemes for an animal to play with. A real pet, not the dik dik that dies, the monkey that tries to bite her fingers, nor the elusive cat that lives in the shed and has just absconded with her litter of kittens. But her plans are derailed as Jane learns she is to move back to America with her family. America and Africa collide as Jane tries to answer the simple question, ?Where am I from?? Entering grade school in suburban America for the first time, will she find a best friend a continent away from her real life in Africa? Or is America?where she meets her relatives for laughter and frolicking and big holiday meals?her real home.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection A CBC Spring 2024 Showcase Selection No matter where she goes, or how big she grows, Wanjik? knows her name. Librarian Favorites: Third to Fifth Grade In the lush Kenyan countryside, a young Giku?yu? girl helps her grandmother with daily tasks. Here, as she tends to the cows, carries water, and plays in the fruit trees and sugarcane, she is called Wanjik? On the busy city streets of Nairobi, where she goes to school, she is called by her English name, Catherine. But at home with Wangari?, the maid who cooks and cares for her, she is again Wanjik? All grown up in boarding school, Catherine is the leader of her class, surrounded by friends from different cultural backgrounds. But at night, when she gathers with her fellow Giku?yu? sisters to speak her mother tongue, she is Wanjik? once more. Gloriously illustrated, alive with the joie de vivre of girlhood, and based on the author's own beloved childhood memories, Wanjik?, Child of Mine is an ode to the heritage that walks alongside us, and a love song for the sisters we make on the journey. Vermeulen, Karen (illustrator).…

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.