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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Knives Out meets Kim's Convenience in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties. Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady--ah, lady of a certain age--who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco's Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her...
Author
Series
Vera books volume 7
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Everything seems to go wrong for Vera on her first day at a new school, until a classmate shares one of her mishaps.
Author
Series
Vera books volume 5
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Vera is riding her new bicycle in the school yard, when she discovers there's no one there to help her brake to stop herself.
Vera learns to ride her new bicycle, but she has a little trouble stopping.
Author
Series
Vera books volume 8
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Vera is finally old enough to go trick-or-treating after dark and she dresses as a mummy, but when her bandages begin to unravel, she realizes that her night is not going as she anticipated.
Author
Series
After-school superstars volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Third-grader Vera, a budding artist who loves every minute of her after-school comic-book camp, searches for a way to get her mother's permission to attend the camp's final field trip to Comic-Con.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Harper Adams was six years old in 2012 when an act of viral terrorism wiped out one-half of the country's population. Out of the ashes rose a new government, the Confederation of the Willing, dedicated to maintaining order at any cost. The populace is controlled via government-sanctioned sex and drugs, a brutal police force known as the Blue Coats, and a device called the slate, a mandatory implant that monitors every word a person speaks. To utter...
8) Verano
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
Live-action, colorful footage illustrates the exciting, natural highlights of summer. Activities of plants and animals during the summer season are explored. Additional concepts and terminology include: growth, development, seeds, food storage, recreation, and solstice.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
Español
Description
"Un viaje de dos semanas a Mallorca con su familia y amigos es una celebracion: Franny y Jim celebran su trigesimo quinto aniversario de boda, y su hija, Sylvia, se ha graduado de la escuela secundaria. La isla iluminada por el sol, sus montañas y playas, tambien prometen un escape de las tensiones latentes en su casa en Manhattan. Pero no todo va de acuerdo al plan: en el transcurso de las vacaciones, secretos salen a luz, rivalidades resurgen y...
10) Un verano loco
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Una colección de cuatro libros de cartón dirigida a niños a partir de dos años para que jueguen y descubran los cambios que comporta cada estación del año observando los detalles de las ilustraciones.
Nin, la ardilla, sabe que el verano ha llegado porque el cerezo tiene fruta, los pájaros están cantando, y hace mucho calor.
Nin, the squirrel, knows summer has arrived because the cherry tree has bore fruit, the birds are chirping, and it's...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia--a story he never told and that remained unknown until an unforgettable TV appearance in the 1980s reunited him with some of the children he saved. Czech-American artist, MacArthur Fellow, and Andersen Award winner Peter Sís dramatizes Winton's story in this distinctive and deeply personal picture book. He intertwines Nicky's...
14) Remembering Vera
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A stray dog secretly adopted by the men of a U.S. Coast Guard base in San Francisco Bay proves to be a hero.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
¿Crees que Cenicienta era la más bella del baile? ¡No es así! Este divertido libro ilustrado del famoso cuento de hadas te brindará otra perspectiva. Con ilustraciones llamativas, la exitosa serie EL OTRO LADO DEL CUENTO ofrece a los niños una nueva perspectiva de los cuentos clásicos. Descubre los otros libros de la aclamada autora, Trisha Speed Shaskan, incluyendo HONESTAMENTE, ¡CAPERUCITA ROJA ERA UNA VANIDOSA y CRÉEME, ¡RICITOS ES GENIAL!
The...
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home in the hills. Though the road is familiar, she misses a turning and soon becomes lost and disorientated. A car has skidded off the narrow road in front of her, its door left open, and she stops to help. There is no driver to be seen, so Vera assumes that the owner has gone to find help. But a cry calls her back: a toddler is strapped in the back seat. Vera...
20) The crow trap
Author
Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Three very different women come together to complete an environmental survey. Three women who, in some way or another, know the meaning of betrayal....For team leader Rachael Lambert the project is the perfect opportunity to rebuild her confidence after a double-betrayal by her lover and boss, Peter Kemp. Botanist Anne Preece, on the other hand, sees it as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own. And then there is Grace Fulwell, a strange,...
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