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4) Thanksgiving
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[1990]
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English
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A boy and his mother bake two pumpkin pies and go to Grandma's house for a traditional Thanksgiving celebration. Includes a brief overview of the first Thanksgiving.
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[2001]
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English
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Imagine the first harvest feast held in the colonies in 1621 after months of not having enough food. This story was recreated at Plimoth Plantation, a living history museum of seventeenth-century Massachusetts. Told from the perspective of a fourteen-year-old Wampanoag boy and a six-year-old English boy, the story uses photographs to portray its message.
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Abby Akerman believes in the Universe. After all, her Midwest high school marching band is about to perform in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City--if that's not proof that magical things can happen, what is? New York also happens to be the setting of her favorite romance novel, making it the perfect place for Abby to finally tell her best friend Kat that she's in love with her (and, um, gay). She's carefully annotated a copy of the...
12) Appetites
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[2016]
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English
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"Anthony Bourdain is man of many appetites. And for many years, first as a chef, later as a world-traveling chronicler of food and culture on his CNN series Parts Unknown, he has made a profession of understanding the appetites of others. These days, however, if he’s cooking, it’s for family and friends. Appetites, his first cookbook in more than ten years, boils down forty-plus years of professional cooking and globe-trotting to a...
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"Tuesday has a personality that shines. I am not kidding when I say it is common for people to pull out their cell phones and take pictures of and with him. Tuesday is that kind of dog. And then, in passing, they notice me, the big man with the tight haircut. There is nothing about me--even the straight, stiff way I carry myself--that signals disabled. Until people notice the cane in my left hand, that is, and the way I lean on it every few steps....
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2014
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English
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"Life in the big city is one big adventure for Arnold. Living with his grandparents, who run the Sunset Arms boarding house, Arnold shares a roof with a diverse and unusual menagerie of characters. But as any fourth grader knows, some of the most memorable people you'll ever meet are in school."--Container.
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[2017]
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English
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The VCR-loving, mixtape-making, spandex-wearing Goldbergs are back! For geeky and movie-obsessed youngest child Adam, his wonder years were spent documenting the hilarious and awkward antics of his colorful family. This season finds the siblings fighting off huggies, snuggies, and nubbies as they navigate what it means to grow up as a Goldberg.
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2021.
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English
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Discover the people, battles, and politics of America's bloodiest conflict, and explore its causes, chapters, characters, and consequences. Discover the people, battles, and politics of America's bloodiest conflict, and explore its causes, chapters, characters, and consequences With a topic on every page, Civil War Visual Encyclopedia tells the story of the war using simple explanations and stunning photographs. Profiles on decisive battles, strategic...
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2021
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English
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In April and May 2021, the Round Rock Public Library accenpted entries to the Write On! Tween SHort Story Contest and Rockin' Teen Poetry Contest. Young authors submitted an original short story or poem. This book is a collection of their short stories and poems.
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