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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam "West" Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she'd signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways. Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the...
3) A day's work
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Francisco, a young Mexican American boy, tries to help his grandfather find work, he discovers that even though the old man cannot speak English, he has something even more valuable to teach Francisco.
6) Pretty baby
Author
Language
English
Description
She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can't get the girl out of her head... Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
When Kyle fakes a catch, his baseball team goes on to win the league championship but Kyle doesn't feel good about winning by cheating. Includes a section on the sportsmanship of Christy Mathewson, a pitcher who played professional baseball in the early 1900s.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Sam is proud that his touchdown in the final play of a game left his football team undefeated, but when a videorecording of the game reveals that the touchdown was scored illegally, he and the other Cowboys must decide whether to reveal the truth. Includes facts about a similar situation faced by Cornell University's team after a game with Dartmouth in 1940.
Author
Series
Mary Margaret books volume 4
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When nine-year-old Mary Margaret tells everyone at school her name is Mary Margaret Mary, she discovers that the problems lying causes make life too complicated, especially with Christmas coming.
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Film novelizations volume 3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When Matthew has nothing for show-and-tell one day, he tells the class that he has a lion living at his house, but when his classmates want to come see it he must decide what to do.
16) Big whopper: #2
Author
Series
Zigzag kids volume 2
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When Destiny Washington cannot think of a discovery during Discovery Week at school, she makes up a story, but finds that she cannot keep on pretending it is true.
Author
Series
Owen Foote volume 5
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Owen and his friends decide that spying on the school principal at his own house will be a fun challenge.
Author
Series
Betty Bunny books volume 3
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When a young rabbit breaks a table lamp and blames the Tooth Fairy, her family explains the importance of honesty.
Author
Series
Effie Maloney books volume 1
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Effie is dealing with a lot of problems, including some missing money, losing her best friend, the death of her grandfather and more, and her mean older sister Maxey is making things even worse.
20) The Whopper
Author
Publisher
Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A little boy named Percy tells a lie, which turns into the Whopper, a hungry and persistant monster. As Percy's guilt grows, the Whopper does too, until finally ... the Whopper eats Percy! It is only when the the Whopper threatens to also eat Percy's brother that Percy finally speaks up -- Jacket flap.
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