Nick Mondelli
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A diverse range of community helpers introduce the vehicles they use to keep produce and grow their cities as well as keep their cities clean. In Volume 2 of Finn's Fun Trucks, children will discover an assortment of vehicles, including those that clean and haul stuff, construction vehicles, demolition vehicles, and farm vehicles.
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People fear death (apparently just a tiny bit less than public speaking). We don't know how to talk about it, especially to children, and we're afraid to bring it up for fear of making people sadder. Yet children, especially, have questions, and this incredibly gentle and surprisingly light story is full of both comfort and vividly imagined answers. The first one gives the story its title: A boy hears the voice of his sister calling him one day, a...
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People fear death (apparently just a tiny bit less than public speaking). We don't know how to talk about it, especially to children, and we're afraid to bring it up for fear of making people sadder. Yet children, especially, have questions, and this incredibly gentle and surprisingly light story is full of both comfort and vividly imagined answers. The first one gives the story its title: A boy hears the voice of his sister calling him one day, a...
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Daniel doesn't believe the woods behind his new home are haunted by an evil witch and her terrifying beast. But then his little sister disappears . . . and it's up to him to find her. Mary Downing Hahn's popular page-turner will thrill readers who love spooky stories.
They say that a ghost witch lives in the woods, up on the hill. They say her companion has a pig skull for a face and stands taller than a man, his skeleton
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2023.
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380 pages ; 24 cm
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"A story of young friendship, musical obsession, and a missing person, set in the metal scene of the late eighties and early nineties"-- Provided by publisher.
Kip, Leslie, and Kira are outliers--even in the metal scene they love. In arch-conservative Gulf Coast Florida in the late 1980s, just listening to metal can get you arrested, but for the three of them the risk is well worth it, because metal is what leads them to one another. Different as...
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Wily Snare sets sail on the high seas in the third and final installment of the middle grade fantasy adventure series from Adam Jay Epstein, Snared: Voyage on the Eversteel Sea
Wily's enemies are after his throne.
The man who kept him captive for much of his childhood, the evil mage Stalag, is still at large, and Wily knows the kingdom will never be safe as long as he's a threat. Meanwhile, Wily's father, the Infernal King, has escaped prison and...
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In this rip-roaring dungeon adventure, genius inventor Wily Snare must journey into a dangerous underground maze to find a mythical beast.
Thanks to a crew of misfit treasure-seekers, Wily Snare has assumed his rightful place as King of Panthasos. Wily knows how to be a great trapsmith-devising and building various contraptions to keep plunderers at bay-but he has no idea how to be a good king.
And he hasn't escaped his past. Stalag, mage who once...
8) Wild spaces
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2023.
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"An eleven-year-old boy lives an idyllic childhood exploring the remote coastal plains and wetlands of South Carolina alongside his parents and his dog Teach. But when the boy's eerie and estranged grandfather shows up one day with no warning, cracks begin to form as hidden secrets resurface that his parents refuse to explain. The longer his grandfather outstays his welcome and the greater the tension between the adults grows, the more the boy feels...
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A family--a mother, a father, and their ten-year-old son--have come all the way from Florida to the Appalachian foothills to experience the wonder of a snowy weekend. At a nearby farm, a cattle dog is working, as she does every day, driving her forty head of cattle from pasture to corral and back again. And then, suddenly, a blizzard descends. The family is trapped outside, disoriented in the whiteout. They are panicked, exhausted, freezing, and stranded...
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She's always had my loyalty.
I'm the right-hand man to the rising star of the East Coast mafia. But he's not the one who's always had my allegiance. It's Carina, his sister, the one woman who's had my heart in a vise grip ever since she came back from school. But she's off limits, and some lines, once crossed, can never be redrawn.
I tell myself to keep my distance, but the more she tempts me, the more I falter. Carina isn't just beautiful,...
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The Book that I Love to Read: The ultimate reluctant-reader book comes to life with awesome illustrations as our host gives readers a tour of the book he loves to read and explains why he loves to read it. I Am So Awesome: What's a kid to do when he has to wait at the office while his mom finishes up work? Take an awesome adventure, of course! Join this amazing young adventurer as he swims, jumps, and treasure hunts his way through the jungle...err,...
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People fear death (apparently just a tiny bit less than public speaking). We don't know how to talk about it, especially to children, and we're afraid to bring it up for fear of making people sadder.
Yet children, especially, have questions, and this incredibly gentle and surprisingly light story is full of both comfort and vividly imagined answers. The first one gives the story its title: A boy hears the voice of his sister calling him one day,...
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In 1796, the men at Fort Kenay or Russian Redoubt Saint Nicholas are terrified. A ghost, a woman in a tattered white dress, screams nightly along the banks of the Kenai River below the bluffs where the fort stands. Young Nicholas arrives with Captain Zaikov on his fur trading ship from Russia at the fort. Nicholas is sent by powerful people in Russia to accomplish a task, yet no one knows anything about him. An Orthodox priest is among the arrivals...
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Have you ever wished that instead of having to do your chores all by yourself that someone - or something - would help you get them done faster? That's exactly the way the sorcerer's apprentice felt one day when the sorcerer left him all alone to clean the castle - so he tried to do some magic of his own, and ended up in a bubbly mess! Ultimately the young apprentice finds that passion and hard work, tempered with patience and discipline, can make...
16) Kiss and Repeat
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Stephen Luckie isn't so lucky in love. He's completely inexperienced when it comes to girls and wonders if his tics-caused by Tourette's Syndrome-are the reason. Then a game at a party reveals that his body goes still while kissing. Using the scientific method drilled into him by his scientist father, Steven begins the best experiment ever-one that involves kissing as many girls as possible. Who knew science could be so fun? But when the experiment...
17) Puss in Boots
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How boring! thought the miller's son when his dad gave him a cat for a present. This, after giving his brothers land and money! What he didn't know was that the cat was clever - so clever was able to trick a king into giving the son a castle, land, and an introduction to his daughter, the princess.
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Something wicked this way comes . . .
When fifteen-year-old Nate Watson moves to Windsor to live with his mysterious Aunt Celia, the last things on his mind are witches and magick and ancient vendettas. While Nate focuses on building a new life for himself and his younger brother, making new friends and adjusting to a new high school, he can't escape the feeling that something isn't as it seems.
Nate's search for answers leads him to a forbidden,...
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I flirted with a dragon shifter at a wedding, and it accidentally started a magical, miserable mating process between us.
It's technically my fault, but we're not focusing on that.
Now, we have to figure out how to fight the magic pushing us together.
Or... we have to embrace the bond.
But neither of us knows a thing about relationships, so the odds of success?
They're not looking great for us.
I have to figure out what to do about the bond, and fast....
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The ultimate game plan to optimizing yourself, your team, and your impact
Many believe the key to leadership is having the right combination of tools, strategies, and personal qualities. But leadership is about mindset. Beliefs influence behavior, which directly impacts the culture and the growth and development (or not) of the people on a team. Only by shifting one's beliefs can any leader affect real change.
The Leader-Shift Playbook outlines...




