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1) Blue on blue
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Rhyming text and illustrations depict the swell and quieting of a storm.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After a series of wacky mishaps, Blue, Barry, and Pancakes find themselves inside a Roller Duck Ball stadium. Forced to compete in this nonsensical yet highly popular sport, the gang discovers a natural talent for the game. Soon enough, they find themselves hurtling towards athletic stardom! As endorsement deals and branded merchandise offers pile up, will our heroes be able to stay humble and hold onto their friendship? Or will the pressures of...
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Blue, Barry, and Pancakes are best friends! They love funky music, penguins that wear hats, and going on BIG adventures! One day, Barry convinces Blue and Pancakes to enter an epic sundae-making contest. Blue and Pancakes just want to have fun, but Barry is in it to WIN IT. He knows exactly how he's going to get the trophy, but it's going to be dangerous. It'll take sacrifice. He might even lose his pals along the way... Like...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Young readers will fall in love with this adventurous dolphin calf as she teaches them about the Pacific ocean and all the wonderful creatures beneath the sea. The series focused on the way our young animal friends spend a day continues with an adventurous dolphin calf, as she explores the vast Pacific ocean with her mother and meets the many wonderful water-dwelling creatures that live there.
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
From the bitter disputes over secession to the ways in which the conflict would be remembered, Texas and Texans were caught up in the momentous struggles of the American Civil War. Tens of thousands of Texans joined military units, and scarcely a household in the state was unaffected as mothers and wives assumed new roles in managing farms and plantations. Still others grappled with the massive social, political, and economic changes wrought by the...
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Runner-up, 2019 Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Book Award, sponsored by the Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association (TOMFRA) Most general histories of the Civil War pay scant attention to the many important military events that took place in the Lower Rio Grande Valley along the Texas-Mexico border. It was here, for example, that many of the South’s cotton exports, all-important to its funding for the war effort, were shuttled...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Mr. Piragua Man named a new flavor after Alma, but when she tries it, she discovers she doesn’t like how the Alma Special tastes. Should she tell Mr. Piragua Man the truth or avoid piraguas forever? Alma loves playing with the balloon animals Mr. Squid Guy made, but when André’s balloon pops, he wants to do something else. What should Alma do when she wants to keep playing with her balloon?
14) Masterworks
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English
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This episode of Masterworks presents Andy Warhol's 1963 silkscreen ink on canvas, "The Texan, Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg." Hear analysis of this work by an art historian and see this painting and other paintings by the artist. The narrator presents the works of other artists for comparison and to help the viewer gain deeper insight in to this masterpiece.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Grandma Hen asks Chica-Chick if she would like a spinach quesadilla for lunch. Chica-Chick helps by giving Grandma Hen the tortillas, cheese, and spinach. But Grandma Hen says something is still missing. When she again asks Chica-Chick, "Do you want a quesadilla?" Chica-Chick replies, "Yes, please." And then she understands that "please" was the missing ingredient.
17) Arthur
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English
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Is That Kosher - Joan Rivers lends her voice as Francine's sharp-tongued grandma, Bubba, in this episode about family traditions and communal celebration. Francine's convinced that she can fast on Yom Kippur just like her older sister. But then Arthur wins a free pizza party for all his friends for that very same day! Will Francine be able to resist? With Bubba's help, Francine learns that there's more to the special holiday than making it through...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When learning to read, children must be able to quickly identify Dolch words, often referred to as high-frequency or sight words. Building on and incorporating the vocabulary taught in volumes 1 and 2 (Sing & Learning Sight Words), this volume provides an invaluable resource for children learning to read.
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Emily Yeung is training to be an astronaut at NASA. Emily joins real life astronaut Cady Coleman and learns what it takes to become a space explorer. Emily feels what it like to twists upside down and all around in a training machine before stepping into a shuttle simulator and pretending to launch into space. All systems are go!
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English
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In the late 1800s, Maggie Walker, an African American community leader, helped establish a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients, a community center, and an educational loan fund, among other humanitarian projects. She was also the first woman in the United States to become founder and president of a chartered bank.
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