Peter Brown
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Series
Wild robot volume 1
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English
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Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
Author
Series
Wild robot volume 2
Language
English
Description
After being captured by the Recons and returned to civilization for reprogramming, Roz is sent to Hilltop Farm where she befriends her owner's family and animals, but pines for her son, Brightbill.
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English
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To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners....
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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School and Friendship - Collection Spotlight [Kids, Parents]
Three, Four Tell Me More: Let’s Be Friends and First Day of School
Three, Four Tell Me More: Let’s Be Friends and First Day of School
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Lucy, a young bear, starts her day determined to make a new friend but her enthusiasm leads to all sorts of problems until, just as she is about to give up, an unexpected friend finds her.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Books You May Have Missed 2021: Early Readers and Picture Books
Books You May Have Missed 2021: Early Readers and Picture Books
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After having fun running around the house naked and wild, young Fred decides to get dressed--in his parents' closet--with surprising results.
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Series
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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This publication of this revised edition of a masterwork by Princeton University's celebrated scholar of the late antiquity marks the book's tenth anniversary. A central volume in the Wiley-Blackwell series, The Making of Europe, the book has undergone a thorough redesign and includes a new preface covering academic developments in the last ten years, revised common opinions, a fully updated bibliography, and additional color images.
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Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
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This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery recently of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine has thrown fresh light on the first and last decades of his experience as a bishop. These circumstantial texts have led Peter Brown to reconsider some of his judgments on Augustine, both as the author...
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Marking a departure in our understanding of Christian views of the afterlife from 250 to 650 CE, The Ransom of the Soul explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul that occurred around the time of Rome's fall. Peter Brown describes how this shift transformed the church's institutional relationship to money and set the stage for its domination of medieval society in the West. Early Christian doctrine held that the living and...
16) Gus's garage
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Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Gus's workshop is chockful of useless odds and ends. But when his friend Rico comes over with a problem his scooter seat is way too small for a rhino Gus finds just the thing to solve it. He creates a fabulous new vehicular contraption with an old lounge chair! One by one Gus's friends bring him their vehicles and Gus solves their troubles with ingenious solutions a cooling system made with a fridge that doubles as ice-cream machine, a burst of speed...
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Series
Jasper Rabbit volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A young rabbit is frightened by his underwear"--
Presents a story about what happens when a decidedly brave Jasper Rabbit becomes spooked when he turns out the light and discovers that his new big-rabbit undies glow in the dark.
18) Creepy carrots!
Author
Series
Jasper Rabbit volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
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The carrots that grow in Crackenhopper Field are the fattest and crispiest around and Jasper Rabbit cannot resist pulling some to eat each time he passes by, until he begins hearing and seeing creepy carrots wherever he goes.
Author
Publisher
Picarona
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"El conejo Jasper ya no es un conejito. No tiene miedo de la oscuridad, y definitivamente no tiene miedo de algo tan tonto como la ropa interior. Pero cuando las luces se apagan, de repente sus calzoncillos brillan en la oscuridad. Un brillo verdoso y espantoso. Si Jasper fuera miedoso diria que su ropa interior es un poco, bueno, espeluznante. Pero Jasper, obviamente, no tiene miedo y acaba con los espeluznantes calzoncillos. Pero despues de intentarlo...
Author
Publisher
Picarona
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Jasper Rabbit is in the habit of snatching carrots from his favorite carrot patch, but comes to fear that his favorite treats are out to get him.
Al conejito Jasper le encantan las zanahorias, y siempre que le apetecen, va al campo de los Saltamontes Locos y elije las más grandes y crujientes. Bueno, eso era así hasta que empezaron a perseguirle...
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