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Nafisi, Azar.

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Summary: Prof. Nafisi resigned from her job as professor of English Literature at a university in Tehran in 1995 due to repressive government policies. For the next 2 years, until she left Iran, she gathered 7 young women, former students, at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss works of Western literature forbidden by the new regime. They used this forum to learn to speak freely, not...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 820.9 NAF

Dean, James

Summary: Uses stories about Pete the cat to teach children the relationship between letters and the sounds they make.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

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Celce-Murcia, Marianne.

Contents: List of figures and tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Transcription key -- Part 1. Pronunciation instruction in perspective -- 1. The history and scope of pronunciation teaching -- 2. Research on the teaching and acquisition of pronunciation skills -- Part 2. The sound system of North American English : an overview -- 3. The consonant system -- 4. The vowel system -- 5. Stress, rhythm and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.3 CEL

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Publisher / Publication Date: Story Press 2001

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Strausser, Jeffrey

Summary: A guide for improving writing skills and technique.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Barrons Educational Series, Inc. 2021

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Fatus, Sophie

Summary: Accompagnez une famille sympathique durant une journée bien remplie. Vous découvrirez plus de 700 mots, en français et en anglais, à apprendre et à partager.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2016

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J FRENCH 448.2 FATUS

Lassieur, Allison

Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.3 LAS

Summary: Curso completo de inglés, con más de 300 ilustraciones, más de 100 ejercicios con autocorrección, más de 100 conceptos fundamentales, 30 artículos sobre costumbres y cultura de Estados Unidos, más de 700 palabras agrupadas en más de 50 temas de vocabulario, más de 500 frases verbales de uso común en Estados Unidos.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 248 SPANISH ING

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.3 ING

Summary: "This dynamic, fun-packed book includes more than 50 exciting experiments for kids to learn and grow their knowledge in science, technology, engineering, and math. Each experiment is accompanied by clear instructions and step-by-step photography. The experiments span topics such as light, sound, heat, plants, electricity, magnetism, and other concepts that play an important role in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Racehorse for Young Readers 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 507.8 AWE

Collison, Campbell.

Summary: Readers learn how to make their own cowboy hats, gold nugget pouches, and woven baskets as they explore the history of the American West! These crafts and more are shown to readers through step-by-step instructions and helpful photographs of the process and the finished product. The included crafts are meant to enhance the lessons readers learn about the settlement of the West, including the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press Pub. 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978 COL

Apgar, Cheryl.

Summary: Easy-to-follow recipes (one for each letter of the alphabet) and numerous activities that include songs, poems and chants, that enhance literacy and math skills while students learn and enjoy hands-on-cooking experiences.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Teaching Press 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: J Teach Apgar

Summary: Learn Mandarin Chinese by listening to specially composed melodies, with their rhythmic repetitions of Chinese and English words and phrases. Volume 1 teaches over 200 essential words and phrases.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2007

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 495.1 RAP

Gast, Natalie.

Summary: This book is designed for intermediate and advanced level English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) or English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) learners already in, or planning to be in, the workforce in the United States, and it will help you reinforce the skills you have in order to be more valuable to your employer.

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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.24 GAS

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Summary: An illustrated notebook of definitions, diagrams, key concepts, and mnemonic devices geared to help middle school students learn about reading, writing and the English language.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 420 HAB
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 420 HAB

Summary: "Learn to speak, understand, read, and write Swahili with confidence." --cover

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Living Language 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: CD 496.392 SWA

Donegan, Patricia.

Summary: Introduces the form of Japanese poetry known as haiku, explores the seven keys to writing haiku, and provides instructions for five haiku projects, including creating haiga, or illustrated haiku.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Pub. 2003

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 372.623 DON

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Word Donegan

Wilkinson, Graeme

Summary: "Little Sprouts is a multi-set series of engaging, decodable books for beginning readers. Set 4 increases sentence length and complexity, and number of sentences per page. Text is at least 75% decodable and contains previously learned sight words. Ten additional sight words are introduced--be, for, he, look, me, my, she, that, this and with, along with the digraph ck. Each sight word appears at...

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Publisher / Publication Date: High Noon Books 2021

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Wilkinson, Graeme

Contents: Rat on a Mat -- I Can! -- I Am Mom -- Jas and the Bass -- Cam has to Run -- The Fox and the Hen -- Up it went -- Best Pet -- Tom Hid It -- The Cub and the Bug.

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Publisher / Publication Date: High Noon Books 2021

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Wilkinson, Graeme

Contents: Pig -- Mix It! -- Dex -- Gus -- Cat -- Rat-- Zak and Yak -- Fun Run -- Kev Did It -- Yum, Gum.

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Publisher / Publication Date: High Noon Books 2021

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Saunders, George

Summary: "In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 891.7 SAU

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.708 SAU

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.708 SAU

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Saunders

Wilkinson, Graeme

Summary: "Little Sprouts is a multi-set series of engaging, decodable books for beginning readers. Set 3 increases sentence length, sentences per page, and book length. At least 75% of the text is decodable, with previously learned sight words also used. Ten new sight words are introduced--are, do, find, go, have, of see, want, was, and you--and appear at least four times in the set. 

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Publisher / Publication Date: High Noon Books 2021

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Summary: An illustrated notebook of definitions, diagrams, key concepts, and mnemonic devices geared to help middle school students learn science.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: 500 GEI
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 500 GEI

Wright, Andrew

Contents: Language for the organisation of games -- Picture games -- Psychology games -- Magic tricks -- Caring and sharing games -- Card and board games -- Sound games -- Story games -- Word games -- True/false games -- Memory games -- Question and answer games -- Guessing and speculating games -- Miscellaneous games -- Summary of the games (skills, level, time, etc.) -- Index to structures and types of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 1984

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1 available in EZ, Call number: EZ 418 WRI

Sarnowski, Claire

Summary: "The true story of a young girl and a Holocaust survivor whose friendship led to a significant change in their community and beyond"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SAR

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