Noted sportswriter David Goldblatt explores the history of the Olympic Games, starting with its founding in 1896 Athens, to equal opportunity for women, and the inspiration for the Paralympics in the wake of World War II.
Summer means Rock Island for the Fletchers. But this year is different–they have neighbors, for one thing. And for the first time ever, the beloved lighthouse next door is off limits.
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Nineteenth-century Saint Petersburg: Prince Lev goes to live at his family’s estate, a spooky house full of dark secrets. Only Lev, the spitting image of his grandfather, can set them free.
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Four siblings happily live together on a tropical island and take care of themselves. But when they outgrow the car they sleep in, where will they live?
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Raymie’s father has left. Raymie’s plan to get his attention by winning Little Miss Central Florida Tire becomes complicated by the new friendships that develop at baton-twirling lessons.
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While Joe, an American soldier in England, prepares for D-Day, he writes to his younger brother in Ohio. Joe hopes the descriptions of his training and secret mission make it past the censors.
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Cody can’t afford to enter his nine animals in the school pet show, so he lends some to classmates. Despite some misgivings, Cody even lets his friend Tobit borrow his rooster.
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“In Korea I was ordinary…not different. I was just me, like so many others.” But when Hee Jun and his family move to West Virginia, he discovers that he stands out. How will he adjust?
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In this wordless book, a boy and his dog embark on an unusual fishing trip. First they hook a letter F, then an I and an S. But that final letter is remarkably, even dangerously, elusive.
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Joey loves things that fold, so naturally when he hears about origami, he wants to make it himself. but he learns that becoming an origami master takes “much practice and great patience.”
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