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  Taming the Star Runner

  S.E. Hinton

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  “A powerful story” of a boy leaving the city streets for a summer at a horse farm—and discovering the possibility of a different life(Kirkus Reviews).  An ALA Best Book for Young AdultsAn ALA Quick Pick   With an absent mother and a domineering stepfather, Travis uses his tough-guy exterior to hide his true passion: writing. After a violent confrontation with his stepfather, Travis is sent to live on his uncle’s horse ranch—exile to a born-and-bred city kid. Angry and yearning for a connection, Travis befriends Casey, the horse-riding instructor at the ranch, and the untamable horse in her stable: the Star Runner.   When a friend from the city visits with stories of other kids from the neighborhood facing jail time, Travis is more determined than ever that he needs to escape the life of juvenile delinquency he seems destined for. When the offer of a book deal comes through, Travis is hopeful that this is his chance to escape—if only his stepfather will stop standing in the way of his dreams.   In this novel, the acclaimed author of The Outsiders “portrays her characters with sympathy and yet commendably refuses to gloss over rough edges or gritty truths” (Publishers Weekly).   “Hinton continues to grow more reflective in her books, but her great understanding, not of what teenagers are but of what they can hope to be, is undiminished.”—Kirkus Reviews

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  Splash!

  Alan MacDonald

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  Calling all Dirty Bertie fans! Dirty Bertie – the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits – is back for another helping of comic chaos! With ever-increasing madcap schemes and crazy capers, Bertie continues to delight his legions of fans, who revel in his revolting ways.
  
  Join Bertie in Splash! his 35th adventure as he takes Know-All Nick for a ride at the waterpark, goes on the trail of Angela's missing cat and finds himself out-manoeuvred by Miss Boot on the dance floor.
  
  Dirty Bertie is a hugely popular series created by award-winning illustrator, David Roberts (Ada Twist, Scientist – now a Netflix animated series, The Bolds, Suffragette: The Battle for Equality and Jack and the Flumflum Tree). Each Dirty Bertie story is around thirty pages long and split into chapters with plentiful illustrations, making it ideal for sharing or for confident readers to enjoy by themselves.

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  Things That Go

  Kim Mitzo Thompson, Karen Mitzo...

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  Kids will love this playful story that will encourage children to learn transportation vehicle names and the important job each vehicle does to help our communities. Simple sentence structures and repetitive words will encourage young children to fall in love with learning to read.  Kids will enjoy following along word-for-word with the recorded story that features sound effects and professional voices to help children develop vocabulary and improve listening skills.  This reader features adorable art showing diversity to help children form a sense of acceptance and understanding of different races and individual differences.

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  The Cat and the Fiddle - Hey...

  L. Frank Baum

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  "Hey Diddle Diddle, the Cat and the Fiddle. The cow jumped over the moon! The little dog laughed to see such sport and the dish ran off with the spoon." Perhaps you think this verse is all nonsense, and that the things it mentions could never have happened; but they did happen, as you will understand when Frank Baum has explained them all to you clearly. 
  Little Bobby was the only son of a small farmer who lived out of town upon a country road. Bobby's mother looked after the house and Bobby's father took care of the farm, and Bobby himself, who was not very big, helped them both as much as he was able. 
  It was lonely upon the farm, especially when his father and mother were both busy at work, but the boy had one way to amuse himself that served to pass many an hour when he would not otherwise have known what to do. He was very fond of music, and his father one day brought him from the town a small fiddle, or violin, which he soon learned to play upon. I don't suppose he was a very fine musician, but the tunes he played pleased himself, as well as his father and mother, and Bobby's fiddle soon became his constant companion. To find out how the cow and the cat and the moon became involved, you will need to listen to this delightful talk and be much the wiser.

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  Missing

  Patrizia Luraschi

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  The indigenous woman stares at her long red dress hanging from a telephone pole, struggles to free herself, and once freed, with her dress dangling, reduced to shreds and her underwear exposed, in silence, she reads the names of the missing women, who she had written on her arm. He ends by shouting the names one by one. This is the performance of an indigenous Canadian artist, who recounts, through this work, the commemoration of the lives of missing and murdered indigenous women, who disappeared from the streets of Vancouver in Canada. This happened during the Canadian winter of 2002 for those passing through the center east of the city. This may come as a surprise to distracted observers, but the reality is that in Canada, often ranked high on the list of global quality of life indices, indigenous women suffer high rates of violence. In 2014, the Canadian Police confirmed that 1017 indigenous women had been murdered and that 164 had disappeared since 1980, despite indigenous women making up 4.3% of the countrys female population. The Street of Tears, as the Native Americans call it, is infamous for women who disappear in its path.  According to the Amerindians, Native Americans, the disappearances and killings, which began in 1980 and never ended, would be at least four thousand, an impressive number that does not stop. It is a massacre that for decades has been consumed in silence and indifference. Only in 2019, following pressure from many associations and complaints from native groups, was a report published on how many mysterious disappearances and murders occurred on Native American women. The country in which these tragedies are predominantly occurring, according to a survey, is Canada. Between 1980 and 2012,1181 victims were recorded. Between 1980 and 2012, there were 1181 registered victims. If this number already seems extremely shocking, think about the total number of all the Native American women who disappeared and/or were killed. The exact number of victims will never be known, also because many families do not report the disappearance of these women, for fear of repercussions and further revenge and their murderers are: strangers, acquaintances or their husbands. Another piece that is added to this monstrous mosaic are the unsolved cases and many families, to whom a mother, a sister, a daughter has been taken, ask for the reopening of these cases to ensure that justice is done. Why all this reluctance to get to the bottom of this? It is a question that arises spontaneously, but above all it arouses a lot of anger, as if there were serial murders A and B. Hasty and superficial investigations, racist prejudices, are some of the elements found in the investigation, The Commission has also discovered that the violence against these women is due to the inaction of the State, but above all to the associated ideologies that are based on an alleged superiority.

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  In The House Of Life

  اليازية بنت نهيان

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  تدور أحداث القصة حول أحداث سحرية في مكتبة للأطفال، حيث تنبض شخصيات من التاريخ المصري القديم بالحياة لإلهام الأطفال على القراءة. تغلق أمينة المكتبة، رحاب، المكتبة ليلًا، غير مدركة أن طائر أبو منجل، ديجوتي، يستيقظ ويُحيي شخصيات تاريخية. يتفاعل ديجوتي، رمز الحكمة، مع الملكة ميرنيث والملك توت عنخ آمون والملك بيبي الثاني، ويناقشون تراجع عادة القراءة لدى الأطفال.
  وهكذا، تضع الشخصيات القديمة خطة لتشجيع الأطفال على القراءة من خلال استغلال أهميتها التاريخية. تكتشف الملكة ميرنيث رسالة تُعبر عن حزنها لعدم اهتمام الأطفال بالقراءة. تشير الشخصيات إلى تعاليم حكيم قديم، مُبرزةً قيمة الكتب في الحياة. تضع الشخصيات خطة تتضمن وضع الدمية في مكان بارز وجعل أمينة المكتبة تروي قصصًا عن بيت الحياة.
  تُنفذ الخطة بنجاح، مما يُؤدي إلى جوٍّ حيوي وجذاب في المكتبة. في صباح اليوم التالي، تستخدم أمينة المكتبة دمية ديجوتي لجذب الأطفال، يتبادل الأطفال القصص عن دار الحياة، فتمتلئ المكتبة بأصواتهم المبهجة وهم يتوقون للقراءة. 
  The story revolves around the magical happenings in a children's library, where characters from ancient Egyptian history come to life to inspire children to read. The librarian, Rehab, closes the library at night, unaware that the Ibis bird, Dijhuti, awakens and brings historical figures to life. Dijhuti, symbolizing wisdom, interacts with Queen Merneith, King Tutankhamun, and King Pepi II, discussing the decline in children's reading habits.
  Thus, the ancient figures devise a plan to encourage children to read by utilizing their historical significance. Queen Merneith discovers a letter expressing sadness over children's lack of interest in reading.  The characters reference teachings from an ancient sage, highlighting the value of books in life. The characters create a plan that includes placing the doll prominently and having the librarian tell stories about the House of Life.
  The plan is implemented successfully, leading to a lively and engaging atmosphere in the library. The next morning, the librarian uses the Dijhuti doll to attract children, sharing stories about the House of Life. The library becomes filled with the joyful noise of children as they are inspired to read.

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