Boyack, Connor

Summary: "Is school the best way to get an education? Ethan and Emily Tuttle have spent several yearrs in school beging graded on the quality of their work. But after hearing an award-winning teacher discuss some problems with schooling and share a vision for how children are bet educated, the Tuttle family decides to embarck on a new learning adventure. Long-time educator John Taylor Gatto shares...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Libertas Press 2019

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BOY

Oates, Joyce Carol

Summary: "Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one's family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it? ... My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OAT

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Oates 2019

Summary: A neurotic young woman who is married to an engineer in the industrial wasteland of northern Italy, searches in vain to find meaning in her life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN RED

Dufayet, Danielle

Summary: "Waiting is not easy! And waiting can take a long time. Like waiting on the drip, drip, drip of rain to stop or the ding of the timer for cookies to be done baking. But there's one thing that can make waiting go a little bit faster-a friend!"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DUY

McConaughey, Matthew

Summary: From worrying when excited to forgiving while still hurting, children experience everyday paradoxes as they embrace their full potential.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCC

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Soc Emo McConaughey