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Humble yet delicious, po' boy sandwiches combine light and flaky French bread with rich and hearty fillings for a lunch treat loved throughout the South. This beautiful, full-color cookbook offers a wide variety of po' boys from traditional New Orleans offerings to the author's all new creations, including:
• Blackened Shrimp
• Andouille Sausage
• Barbecue Brisket
• Cuban-Style Pork
• Fried Oysters
• Pecan-Crusted Trout
• Fried Alligator...
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Meet Oscar. Today, Oscar's in for a shock - there's a new boy sitting in his seat and Oscar is horrified. Oscar hates change and now he'll have to sit somewhere else which, for Oscar, feels like the end of the world. Oscar's Bad Day gives an insight into a day in the life of a child with autism.
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A story about modern technology which discourages children to go outside and play!
Steve is a boy who spends all of his time inside on his tablet. He can't seem to use his imagination and is mean to his brother and sister when they use theirs.
But then a new boy moves in next door and inspires Steve to go outside and play. Will Steve have fun and find a new friend?
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The new boy crashes the school's-out party of mid-June, where he feels the suspicious eyes of the 6th-grade boys upon him. Steen is afraid to talk to them but wants so bad for them to like him. Football, basketball, track & field - the playground sports throw him into a must-win situation: he either comes up big on a field day under a big American flag or else nobody wants you, not one other boy.
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In Amy Clipston's new novella collection, young Amish couples manage a community garden to raise money for a good cause, harvesting friendships and love along the way.
As the youth of Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, plant a garden in memory of their friend, Katie Ann begins to worry that her older brother, Ephraim, is dating her best friend. What if she somehow loses them both? But Christian, a new boy in the community, also works in the garden-and falling...
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Harmony's parents are getting a divorce and she feels her own life falling apart. But at least she can escape into the world of her favorite vampire book series, "I Dream of Dracula". When a new boy arrives at school resembling the brooding hero in the book series, Harmony naturally becomes obsessed. And when the boy promises her not only romance but eternal life, Harmony cannot but fall for his charms. He's a vampire but she finds out that his tendencies...
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Will McCormick is set to start work at Crabtree Lodge as the nursing home's new night janitor. He is told by the other staff about all the strange and unusual happenings that happen at the lodge at night. He puts all this down to the older staff playing tricks on the new boy. But very soon Will comes to realise that the stories he has been told and not even close to the truth and that infact there is a true monster walking the lonely halls of Crabtree...
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Emma has a secret-and not the good kind. She can hear people's thoughts. When Sara Davis, an adversarial school newspaper editor, convinces her to be the focus of the Senior Feature, Emma doesn't realize what she's getting herself into. Lacking Emma's cooperation, Sara writes the story anyway, setting off gossip and speculation. Worse yet, the article comes dangerously close to exposing Emma's secret and threatens her crush on the new boy at school,...
9) Granny Rags
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Winner, IP Picks 2012 Best Junior Prose. Tim Trickett - shy, over-protected and troubled by memories - is the new boy in a small country town. When his classmates put him up to an initiation test, he finds himself on his way to visit Granny Rags, the reclusive old lady who lives near the creek and is rumoured to be a witch. But one visit turns into several, and soon Tim finds himself deep in a mess of buried secrets, crooked business deals and long-harboured...
10) Deadly Dreams
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Danielle Mason is a typical teenager. School, best friend...nightmares that reach out and touch her. She doesn't know why she has nightmares of darkness and death and she doesn't know why the green eyed boy in each one reaches out to her. Then the day comes that she realizes that the nightmares are somehow tied to her but she just doesn't understand how. Could these be scenes from previous lives and could this green eyed boy be part of her destiny?...
11) Believe Me
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What if you could see into the future, but no one believed you?When Cassie was six years old, she discovered that she had the gift of prophecy. But with that gift came a curse. No one believed her predictions.Ten years later, Cassie doesn't bother telling anyone about her powers. Not even her best friend believes in what she can do. Cassie is content living the life of a normal teenager until she meets Ryan, a new boy in school. She uses her powers...
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It is the early 1980s and Lance Sanderson is beginning fourth grade in Granger, Washington. Compared to his old home near Seattle, Granger is a strange place of farms, desert, and baptists. But after two years, Lance is no longer the new boy. He has friends, a church, and favorite places. But now Granger has another new kid, a boy named Simon. And Simon needs a friend.
Lance writes about everything: holidays, Native Americans, pastors, and grandparents....
13) The Suicide Gift
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When an eight-year-old boy loses his father from suicide, he instantly transforms into someone he no longer recognizes. He becomes lost, sad, confused, and conflicted. He makes the decision to walk away from his physical body and let the new eight-year-old boy take over his life. He knows he needs to do this to save himself until he can figure this situation out. The problem is the new boy that has taken over has no emotions, no empathy, extreme anger,...
14) ClockwiseR
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The last year has been smooth sailing for Casey Donovan. She and her boyfriend Nate are doing better than ever, and things at home are good, too. Everything's been so calm, she hasn't "tripped" back to the nineteenth century in ages.Then the unthinkable happens and she accidentally takes her rebellious brother Tim back in time. It's 1862 with the Civil War brewing, and for Tim this spells adventure and excitement. Finding himself stuck in the past,...
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William Goldman's stunning debut novel about a young boy, adrift and alone, coming of age in a cruel world. Raymond Euripides Trevitt is not yet ten when he resolves to make his own way in life. When a new boy, Zock, moves in next door, he knows he has finally met his partner in life's great adventures. As they come of age in midwestern, midcentury America, Ray and Zock become the best of friends - even though they're opposites in many ways. Ray takes...
16) Crushed
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Kimi thought she had everything figured out. She was dating Rachel, the girl of her dreams, and felt secure in their love for each other. But when a new boy named Aaron enters the picture, Kimi begins to question everything she thought she knew about herself. As she grapples with her newfound attraction to Aaron, Kimi starts to realise that she might be bisexual, and that her feelings don't necessarily have to define her.But navigating her changing...
17) Between 6 & 7
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In this debut dark fantasy set in a world of superheroes, a teenager's dispute with the new boy at school transforms into a life-or-death tournament.
At the age of fourteen, John Camp is an all-around average kid who has an average life . . . until he gets into an altercation with the new kid at school named J. Revels. A fight breaks out that grows to immense proportions when John is tricked into entering a life-or-death tournament called The WAR.
The...
18) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
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Mental Health Awareness Month
NYT - Audio Nonfiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
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NYT - Audio Nonfiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
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"From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health-and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social...
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"For Julie, an elementary school librarian and mother of two boys, there was no time for debilitating anxiety. Yet the terrifying aftershocks of her first panic attack left her grappling with questions about the causes of her mental health crisis and where it would lead next. What follows is a hopeful, honest account of love and loss, a husband who can't read minds, disastrous family outings, and finding a path (with help from loved ones and a few...
20) Heroes
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"December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads are Navy pilots stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the boys get a front-row view of the huge battleships and the sparkling water. Yes, World War II is raging in Europe and in Asia, but the US isn't involved in the war, and the boys are free to dream about becoming comic book creators. They've even invented a superhero of their own, in the style of Batman, Superman, Captain...