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121) The breaking news
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When devastating news rattles a young girl's community, her normally attentive parents and neighbors are suddenly exhausted and distracted. At school, her teacher tells the class to look for the helpers-the good people working to make things better in big and small ways. She wants more than anything to help in a BIG way, but maybe she can start with one small act of kindness instead ... and then another, and another. Small things can compound, after...
122) Remarkable: a novel
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Jane Doe, the only student average enough to be excluded from the town of Remarkable's School for the Remarkably Gifted, is joined at her public school by the trouble-making Grimlet twins, who lead her on a series of adventures involving an out-of-control science fair project, a pirate captain on the run from a mutinous crew, a lonely dentist, and a newly constructed bell tower that endangers Remarkable's most beloved inhabitant--a skittish...
123) One sweet song
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"With a countdown from one to ten and back woven in, this celebration of music and community brings to life a shared moment in a diverse neighborhood where everyone comes together to make one sweet song"--
Author
Publisher
WeBe Books Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Humanity has fractured society, and I am to blame. My benevolent nature and I have had a falling out. This is what happens when the hands of neglect fail to nurture a relationship. Society is not an object I can point to in someone else's yard. I am society, and I have doom scrolled my way into a state of detachment as skepticism dampens my desire for connection. My small, Kansas hometown did not raise me this way. Caring examples of community surrounded...
125) Springtime blossoms
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It's springtime on Bradford Street and twins Jada and Jamal Perkins are helping their parents with yardwork as they look for signs of spring, When their teacher tells them about the town's plans to plant new trees at school in celebration of Earth Day, Jada and Jamal and their best friends, Carlita and Josh, come up with a school beautification project of their own"--
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Characters and themes from Stephen King's multiple universes converge in the fictional town of Castle Rock. In season two a feud between warring clans comes to a boil when budding psychopath Annie Wilkes, nurse from hell, gets waylaid in Castle Rock. And as the town celebrates its 400th anniversary, Castle Rock's first settlers -- including Henry Deaver -- find themselves joining in the festivities.
Author
Series
Rocket says volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Rocket finds out her town's library is closing, she rallies support from her peers, and together they lead a peaceful protest that spreads awareness and raises enough money to save their beloved library.
131) The magic of dreams!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When Asha, in a moment of desperation, makes a wish, it is answered by a little ball of boundless energy called Star who helps her save her community and prove that anything is possible if you just believe.
132) Nocturnal America
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
�2006
Language
English
Description
Keeble, links the nine stories in this Prairie Schooner Book Prize-winning collection through recurring characters; names appear in one story's background and become central to the next. The first story, "The Chasm," introduces Jim and Diane Blood, who are trying to build a ranch house during a tough eastern Washington winter. In their attempts to forge relationships with their new neighbors, acclimate to the land and maintain their marriage, they...
Author
Series
Publisher
Magination Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Miles wants to move away after his cousin Keisha is accidentally shot in their neighborhood park, but Keisha and Miles' father work with others to make their community a safer place. Includes reader's note with discussion questions and advice for caregivers.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In a story inspired by her own family's desire to help others, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor takes young readers on a journey through a neighborhood where kids and adults, activists and bus drivers, friends and strangers all help one another to build a better world for themselves and their community"--
137) I live on a farm
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A seven-year-old boy who lives on a farm in upstate New York describes life in that rural community including the various kinds of work to be done during each season.
138) Things That Work
Publisher
Flowerpot Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Community helpers with their motor vehicles.
Author
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Agreeing to care for the baby that a terminally ill former girlfriend claims is his, recovering alcoholic Noel turns to a loving network of family and friends for help until a social worker attempts to place the baby in a foster home.
When Noel learns that his former flame is terminally ill and pregnant with a child she claims is his, he agrees to take care of the baby girl once she's born. But as a recovering alcoholic whose demons are barely under...
140) The Sims 4: 4
Publisher
Electronic Arts, Inc
Language
English
Description
"Enjoy the power to create and control people in a virtual world where there are no rules."--Container.
