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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Pearl's job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment. She's good at her job, her office manager tells her, successful. But how does one measure an emotion? Meanwhile, there's Pearl's teenage son, Rhett. A sensitive kid who has forged an unconventional path through adolescence, Rhett seems to find greater satisfaction in being unhappy. The very rejection of joy is his own kind...
2) See me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. With a history of violence and bad decisions behind him and the threat of prison dogging his every step, he's determined to walk a straight line. To Colin, that means applying himself single-mindedly toward his teaching degree and avoiding everything that proved destructive in his earlier life. Reminding himself daily of his hard-earned lessons, the last thing he is looking for is a serious...
3) Happiness
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fox makes its way across London's Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide - Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech. In this delicate tale of love and loss, of cruelty and kindness, Aminatta Forna asks us to consider the interconnectedness of lives, our co-existence with one another and all living creatures, and the true nature of happiness....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Joe has a lot of reasons to be happy. About a billion of them, in fact. You see, Joe's rich. Really, really rich. Joe's got his own bowling alley, his own cinema, even his own butler who is also an orangutan. He's the wealthiest twelve-year-old in the land. Yes, Joe has absolutely everything he could possibly want. But there's just one thing he really needs: a friend!
8) Abuela
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
©1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Flying over Manhattan Island, turning somersaults in midair. Gliding low to race the sailboats, spreading skirts for sails. Rosalba and her grandmother, her abuela, are taking an extraordinary trip - on Rosalba's imagination. "Tantos pájaros. So many birds." Rosalba says to herself, feeding the birds in the park with Abuela. "What if they picked me up and carried me high above the park? What if I could fly?" And fly she does, calling Abuela up to...
9) ¡Lluvia!
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
"¿Cómo puede ser que dos personas vean el mismo día de manera tan diferente? ¿Y qué ocurre cuando estas dos personas se conocen? ¡Toma el paraguas y averigualo!"--
"How can two people view the same day so differently? And what happens when the two meet? Grab your umbrella and find out!"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Lata de Sal
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
"En esta segunda historia, Pete descubre que, aunque pierda sus botones uno a uno, siempre le quedará el más importante... su ombligo. Un libro para contar, y para cantar"--Amazon.es
Pete the cat loves the buttons on his shirt so much that he makes up a song about them, and even as the buttons pop off, one by one, he still finds a reason to sing.
"Un exitazo de Pete para cantar y contar"--Back cover
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