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[1996]
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Español
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Sam Gribley se refugia en la soledad de las Montañas Catskill para comenzar una vida nueva. Con la ayuda de un cortaplumas, una pelota de corco, cuarenta dólares y unas piezas de acero y pedernal, debe confiar para sobrevivir en su propio ingenio y en los recursos que le ofrece la tierra. Solo en la montaña, Sam descubre el valor, el peligro y el verdadero significado de la palabra camaradería.
A young boy relates his adventures during the year...
83) Wei skates on
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Olympic gold medalist and three-time World Champion Nathan Chen delivers an inspirational picture book about facing your fears and finding the joy in sports, no matter the outcome. Wei has loved ice-skating ever since his first visit to the rink. He loves gliding across the ice, taking flight on jumps, and moving with the music--there's nothing else like it! But as Wei's first big competition draws near, he begins to worry. He's been training hard,...
84) Stop talking, start doing action book: practical tools and exercises to give you a kick in the pants
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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English
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Bestselling author (Communicate with Confidence!, over 160,000 copies sold) Dianna Booher takes the mystery out of creating the "Personal Presence" that is central to everyone's success in leading, persuading, and selling to others. She gives specific and practical guidance for learning to look, talk, think, and act with presence.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Eighteen-year-old Eliza Mirk is the anonymous creator of Monstrous Sea, a wildly popular webcomic, but when a new boy at school tempts her to live a life offline, everything she's worked for begins to crumble.
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English
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Introduces children to the importance of following rules at school and at home. Know and Follow Rules helps children to understand the importance of rules in affirming and supportive language. Children learn to understand that actions have consequences, and that the best way for getting along is for everyone to know and understand what is expected of them. Simple words and inviting illustrations help children realize the positive results that result...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
With behind-the-scenes examples from some of the top names in sports and business, this book offers six reframing strategies to help you see a pressure situation with a new perspective so that it shifts from a threat that can make you panic to an opportunity for you to shine. --
90) Billy Creekmore
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In 1905, ten-year-old Billy is taken from an orphanage to live with an aunt and an uncle of whose existence he was previously unaware. He enjoys his first taste of family life until his work in a coal mine and his involvement with a union bring trouble. He then joins a circus in hopes of finding his father.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
ELITE MINDS THINK ALIKE. Discover the winning secrets of the world's most successful people. As a top-level sport psychologist and performance consultant, Dr. Stan Beeham knows what it takes to succeed-on the playing field, in the board room, and in all aspects of life. This award-winning book takes you inside the minds of major-league athletes, Olympic medal winners, and world-class business leaders to reveal the key motivators and mental processes...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
For nearly six decades Outward Bound USA's education programs have shaped the lives of tens of thousands of participants. Strangers are put in an unfamiliar and unpredictable setting, where to succeed they must develop a sense of teamwork, resilience, self-confidence, and a focus on the greater good. But, Mark Brown asks, isn't the modern world just as unpredictable and challenging as any mountain or desert? He shows how the same principles that bind...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
95) Join in and play
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English
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Simple text discusses how to develop the skills to make friends and to learn to play with others. Includes role-playing activities.
96) Genevieve's war
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"In August 1939 Genevieve makes an impulsive decision not to get on [a] train to take her to [the] boat back [to] New York, and must spend the duration of World War II with her grandmother in a small village in Alsace, France, where she becomes involved with the French resistance"--
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English
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Leaving her best friend and the familiarity of Seattle for the paper mill town of "Stinkville," South Carolina, twelve-year-old Alice, who lives with albinism and blindness, takes on the additional challenge of entering the Stinkville Success Stories essay contest.
100) One-handed catch
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English
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After losing his hand in an accident in his father's butcher shop in 1946, sixth-grader Norman uses hard work and humor to learn to live with his disability and to succeed at baseball, art, and other activities.
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