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Become a baseball star in this interactive adventure. Make the right choices, upgrade your skills, and win the big game!
Whoever said “life isn’t fair” wasn’t kidding. Your parents have been in and out of jail—and you’ve been in and out of foster care—for much of your life. At least you have baseball. It’s the one thing that keeps you in school and out of trouble. But will you stick with the team when your living situation changes for the worse?
You’re the main character in this interactive sports adventure. Play as Alec, and try to keep your head in the game as your home life begins to unravel. Do you have the talent, skill, and focus to keep your starting spot at shortstop? Or will the new kid in town bump you to the bench? More importantly, will you find a way to forgive your parents and bring your family back together?
You may have read sports books before, but you’ve never read one like Out at Home by Lisa M. Bolt Simons. It’s a game within a game. Interactive books for kids are more popular than ever. Create your own adventure with the Choose to Win book series for boys and girls. You’re the main character. You make the choices. Will you find your way to a championship finish? Here’s how the format works:
Become the main character. Make choices that affect what happens.
Collect points along the way to upgrade your skills.
Utilize your upgrades to win the game at story’s end!
In his first novel for young readers, the author of "Wild Pitch"
and "Bump and Run" tells the story of a 12-year-old Danny Walker,
the smallest kid on the basketball court who's cut from the very
travel team his father led to national prominence as a boy.
Book 8 in the acclaimed Rugby Spirit series. Eoin Madden and his
friends are back at school and it looks like it will be a fun year
with new subjects and activities to try. After all his years on the
Junior Cup team, Eoin is looking forward to a break from rugby this
year; when there's a chance to play soccer instead, he jumps at it!
But it's hard to set up a football team at a rugby-mad school like
Castlerock - can the boys do it? And who is the ghostly footballer
with links to Dalymount Park that Eoin and his friends keep
meeting? Eoin usually sees ghosts when trouble is brewing, so is
something wrong at the football grounds? From the Busby Babes of
the 1950s to the Castlerock Red Rockets, football links the
generations.
A fun and playful seasonal twist on "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" makes
this favorite nursery rhyme perfect for wintertime! The itsy bitsy
snowman went sledding into town, looking at the snowflakes softly
falling down. Out came his friends to lend a happy hand. And
everything was perfect in his winter wonderland. Little ones will
love this fresh winter spin on a classic nursery rhyme, as one
little snowman sleds through a winter wonderland.
In this third installment of the Pup Detectives graphic novel series, the pup detectives have to collect clues to find their school’s missing mascot before the big game!
When the beloved Pawston Elementary School mascot goes missing, Rider Woofson and his fellow pup detectives smell trouble on the soccer field. But when the star player on the team also goes missing just before the biggest match of the season, they know they have a super-foul mystery on their paws. There are more suspects than there are clues, but these persistent pups won’t give up until they score a win for good guys everywhere!
Meet Oscar the shaggy little pony. Brother and Sister care for
Oscar in return for riding lessons. Before long, Oscar and the cubs
are ready to enter the local riding show
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I Am Lenny Brown
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Dan Freedman; Illustrated by Kajsa Hallström
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There's more than one way to find your voice . . . Lenny Brown is
eight years old and can't talk. Except to his mum and his dog,
Rocky. When Lenny has to move house and start at a new school, it
feels like his whole life is changing, and not for the better. Will
he be able to make friends and find a way to fit in? But when Lenny
finds a different way to express himself, everyone is in for a big
surprise as they find out just how amazing he can be . . .
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Soccer Hero
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Matt Christopher
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Rob Lasher may just be an average soccer player, but there's
nothing he loves more than working together with his teammates.
Sure, his soccer skills aren't anything special, but that's all
right with him--Rob has never minded flying under the radar. But
when he saves his coach's life during one fateful afternoon
practice, Rob finds himself suddenly thrust into the spotlight. Now
lauded as a hero and heralded as the savior of his team, Rob wants
nothing more than for things to go back to normal. Because not
everyone on the team is happy about Rob's newfound fame... This
classic story from beloved author Matt Christopher is sure to win
over any young sports fan, all while teaching them what it means to
be a good teammate, and what it means to be a true hero.
Meet Danny Harte. Football fan and crime detective. Danny loves
supporting his local team, City FC. So when everyone starts
supporting the Italian team Forza FC, Danny is angry. His club is
in jeopardy and needs their support. Danny decides to investigate
the sudden popularity of the new team - starting with Forza's
billionaire owner - and that's when the danger really kicks off. .
. Can Danny uncover the sinister reasons behind Forza's success -
and save City at the same time?
New dog, no tricks! Becket Branch has one birthday wish--a dog!
Dogs are outgoing and friendly, and they live life loud, just like
Becket. Becket's twin, Nicholas, wants a pet more like him--a
peaceful, quiet indoor cat. When their parents take them to the
shelter to choose a dog and a cat, it should be Becket's biggest
BEAUTIFUL ALERT ever. But Becket's dream dog, Dibs, turns out to be
a super-shy scaredy-pooch. Meanwhile, Nicholas's kitty, Given,
loves being the center of attention and greeting visitors to
Blackberry Farm. Can Becket and Nicholas learn how to love Dibs and
Given as they are--even if they aren't exactly the pets the twins
dreamed of? With black-and-white drawings throughout by
award-winning illustrator LeUyen Pham (Real Friends), this second
volume of the Blackberry Farm series offers a gentle message about
embracing new friends who may not match preconceived expectations.
A wordless picture-book journey through the Boundary Waters,
canoeing and camping with a family as they encounter the northwoods
wilderness in all its spectacular beauty It's a place of wordless
wonder: the wilderness of the Boundary Waters on the
Minnesota–Canada border. Travel its vast distances, canoe its
streams and glacial lakes, take shelter from rain under a rocky
outcropping (or in your tent), camp in its vaulting forests as
stars embroider the darkening sky. Is this your first
visit? Or is it already your favorite destination?Â
Come along—join a family of three as their journey unfolds,
picture by picture, marking the changing light as the day passes,
the stillness before the gathering storm, the shining waters
everywhere, rushing here, quietly pooling there, beckoning us ever
onward into nature’s infinite wildness one summer up north.
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We Are Family
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Lebron James, Andrea Williams
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Emma needs a break from big-sister duty in this addition to
Spotlight's treat of a tween series.
Emma is not thrilled with always having to rearrange her schedule
so she can babysit her younger brother, Jake. Now Emma's parents
have broken some news that really threatens to push Emma over the
edge--since Emma and Jake are going to the same day camp this
summer, she's expected to sit with Jake on the bus. Not only does
this mean Emma can't hang out with her friends, but she also has to
comfort Jake--who has a serious issue with motion sickness.
Can Emma find a way to sweeten up her summer plans?
Nikko loves bedtime. That's because his bed turns into a magical
wrestling ring for the masked luchadores that he loves. They bounce
up and down like crazy. His mom, of course, doesn't believe Nikko.
She accuses him of jumping on his bed. But that's just not true at
all. She just can't see what Nikko sees. And to prove his
point-zoosh! Here comes luchador numero UNO with a golden mask and
a silver cape. Oh, wow. Number TWO wears an orange mask with yellow
flames. Another looks like a jaguar and he growls! A rooster! A
bull with horns! And a dragon that breathes fire! And so it goes
until TEN luchadores are jumping on Nikko's bed. That's when the
Great and Mighty Nikko puts on his mask, taking on all ten
wrestlers at once and defeating them soundly. Ahh, a fresh victory
under his belt, now it's time for Mighty Nikko to catch some
zzzzzs! Artist and storyteller Xavier Garza is celebrated for his
lucha libre picture books and chapter books. Maxmillian and the
Mystery of the Guardian Angel was a Pura Belpre Honor Book, 2012,
and a ALA Notable Book, 2012. Xavier, who is a much requested
storyteller for schools, has been a featured speaker at the
American Library Association (REFORMA), the Tucson Book Festival,
and the Texas Library Association.
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