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In a story told in letters, when Claire's best friend moves away just before the start of fifth grade, Claire becomes the only girl in her tiny island elementary school--and suddenly boys she has been friends with her whole life turn into resentful, bullying strangers.
84) The quiet place
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2012.
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A little girl moves to the United States from Mexico with her family and writes letters to her aunt in Mexico about her new life.
85) Extra credit
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5th Grade Rocks
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Middle East Book Award - Youth Chapter & Nonfiction
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Middle East Book Award - Youth Chapter & Nonfiction
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As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.
87) Bravo, Max!
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2007.
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As he turns eleven years old, Max continues to exchange letters with his favorite author, from whom he receives some advice about writing a play and about coping with his mother's new boyfriend.
88) XO, Exoplanet
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[2021]
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When Jupiter notices a planet circling a far star, he enlists the other planets in our solar system to send a letter, but soon there is a disagreement on which, exactly, is the exoplanet.
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The product of a lifetime immersed in the literary, performing arts, and entertainment worlds, Lives and Letters spotlights the work, careers, intimate lives, and lasting achievements of a vast array of celebrated writers and performers in film, theater, and dance, and some of the more curious iconic public figures of our times.
From the world of literature, Charles Dickens, James Thurber, Judith Krantz, John Steinbeck, and Rudyard Kipling; the controversies...
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43 Old Cemetery Road volume 2
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[2011]
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In this story told mostly through letters, busybody Dick Tater tries to ban Halloween and ghost stories, as well as to break up the popular writing team of I. B. Grumply, ghost Olive C. Spence, and eleven-year-old illustrator Seymour Hope.
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In this collection we find two of Cicero's philosophical treatises, "On Friendship" and "On Old Age". In Cicero's treatise on friendship we learn of his belief that true friendship with someone is derived from complete honesty, truth and trust. Cicero placed a high value upon friendship and saw it as a relationship of mutual benefit in which friends do things for each other without expectation of repayment. In a related philosophical writing on the...
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Our fantasies and dreams create our reality. Most parents wish the best for their children and especially strong is the mother and daughter bond. In "Faery Letters" Pamela Erickson, a uniquely talented writer, demonstrates her love and caring for her own daughter through a series of "Faery Letters." This is a book that will be shared between mothers and daughters alike and passed down among generations of woman who will find themselves reflected in...
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La correspondencia de Emilia Pardo Bazán con Galdós abarca los mejores años creativos de la vida de ambos, entre 1883 y 1915. Se trata de la recopilación de las cartas, conocidas hasta el momento, enviadas por Pardo Bazán a Galdós, ordenadas cronológicamente y acompañadas de una aproximación a la figura de la escritora coruñesa y el relato esencial del amor y la amistad entre ambos autores. Literatura y vida literaria, intrigas académicas,...
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"Schwester Teresa macht sich Sorgen um die Sorgen. Zum Glück. Die meisten Menschen sorgen sich viel zu viel. … Höchste Zeit, sich mit dem leidigen Phänomen des Sorgens mal ein bisschen intensiver zu beschäftigen. Und da ist Schwester Teresa genau die Richtige. Eine fromme Tausendsassa, die mit beiden Beinen auf dem Boden steht und dabei den Blick immer fest in den Himmel gerichtet hält. Vor allem aber schafft sie es auf eindrückliche Weise,...
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"El presente volumen de la Serie Cuadernos de Humanidades celebra los cumpleaños de tres clásicos de la literatura colombiana: 150 años de María por Jorge Isaacs; 50 años de Cien años de Soledad por Gabriel García Márquez; 40 años de Qué viva la música por Andrés Caicedo. Estas tres obras pertenecientes al canon literario colombiano son también referencia literaria mundial. Este volumen comparte los textos presentados en los homenajes...
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The third book in the bestselling and hilarious series of 'Am I Alone…?' books From bin Laden to Pippa Middleton's bottom, and from riots to Rebekah Wade, Telegraph readers offer their maverick and hilarious take on the year's events, in the letters the paper didn't publish, because they were just too off-the-wall, too outrageous, or too waggish for an august Letters page. The first two volumes of unpublished letters to the Daily Telegraph, Am I...
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These ten letters, written by one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, offer deep and sincere advice to the young poet. They touch on all aspects of life and are valuable to anyone wishing to be a poet and to those who are not. Written with power, style, and conviction these letters will guide and inspire anyone who reads them.
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Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, better known as Pliny the Younger was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Born of the equestrian rank, the lower of the two Roman aristocratic orders, Pliny would ascend to the higher rank, the senatorial order, by being elected Quaestor in his late twenties. The nephew of Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger would have correspondence with numerous important Roman figures throughout his lifetime, including...
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Cuando a principios de junio de 1962, Dionisio Ridruejo cruzó la frontera clandestinamente, ya era un referente de la oposición al franquismo. Su asistencia al IV Congreso del Movimiento Europeo para reunirse con demócratas españoles del interior y del exilio le condenó a vivir dos años en el destierro. Se instaló en París desde donde desarrolló una campaña política contra la dictadura que le llevó a viajar por media Europa y los Estados...
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