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Overview: Feel confident on the dance floor-step by step! This third edition of Social Dance: Steps to Success will teach you all the moves for 10 of today's most popular dance styles: Merengue; Four-count swing and hustle; Waltz; Six-count swing; Foxtrot; Polka; Cha-cha; Rumba; Tango; Salsa and mambo. The first few learning steps in this book introduce you to the foundational skills and concepts you need for success on the dance floor. Each step...
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"Killian paints a vivid portrait of the swing voters around the country and presents a new model that reveals who they are and what they want from their government and elected officials. She also offers a way forward, including solutions for fixing our broken political system. This is not only a timely shot across the bows of both parties but an impassioned call to Independents to bring America back into balance."--
65) A stitch in time
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"Maria likes to be alone with her thoughts. She talks to animals and objects, and generally prefers them to people. But whilst on holiday she begins to hear things that aren't there-- a swing creaking, a dog barking-- and when she sees a Victorian embroidered picture, Maria feels a strange connection with the ten-year-old, Harriet, who stitched it. But what happened to her? As Maria becomes more lost in Harriet's world, she grows convinced that something...
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IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Aspiring cartoonist Nate Wright is the star of Big Nate, a mainstay on The New York Times Best Sellers list. Nate is 11 years old, four-and-a-half feet tall, and the all-time record holder for detentions in school history. He's a self-described genius and sixth grade Renaissance Man. Nate, who lives with his dad and older sister, enjoys pestering his family and teachers with his sarcasm.
To draw Big Nate, Peirce relies on memories of his own childhood...
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In Death series volume 38
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"The incomparable J. D. Robb presents the latest moving and suspenseful novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Eve Dallas series. In a decrepit, long-empty New York building, Lieutenant Eve Dallas's husband begins the demolition process by swinging a sledgehammer into a wall. When the dust clears, there are two skeletons wrapped in plastic behind it. He summons his wife immediately-and by the time she's done with the crime scene, there are twelve...
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"Though a disability stunted his growth and left him with a hunched back, William Henry "Chick" Webb did not let that get in the way of his musical pursuits. Even as a young child, Chick saw the world as one big drum, pounding out rhythms on everything from stair railings to pots and pans. His love of percussion brought him to the big time as an influential big band leader. This picture-book biography details the life of black American jazz drummer...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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It's another Thanksgiving at Grandma's. Gavin expects a long day of boredom and being pestered by distantly related toddlers, but his cousin Rhonda has a different idea: make a break for it - out of the kids' room to the swing set in the backyard! Gavin isn't so sure, especially when they encounter vicious guard dogs (in homemade sweaters), a hallway full of overly affectionate aunts, and worse yet, the great wall of butts! Will they manage to avoid...
71) In another time
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
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It's 1942, and as the war rages in Europe, Maisie McCall is in the Scottish Highlands swinging an axe for the Women's Timber Corps. Maisie relishes her newfound independence working alongside other lumberjacks--including the mysterious John Lindsay. As Maisie and John work side by side felling trees together, Maisie can't help but feel that their friendship has the spark of something more to it. And yet every time she gets close to him, John pulls...
72) I love my daddy
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Disney Hyperion Books
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2012
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A father and child enjoy special time together playing on the swings, singing and dancing, having snacks, and cuddling.
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Holiday House
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2015
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IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"The International Sweethearts of Rhythm was an all-girl swing band formed in 1939 at an African American school for orphans in rural Mississippi. The Sweethearts went on to become a professional band of musicians from mixed racial backgrounds. This was revolutionary for that time and place. In the South, so-called Jim Crow laws made it illegal for races to mix. The Sweethearts were violating that code by performing and even traveling together. Despite...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Blake Easton has never played organized sports, so when he makes the local traveling baseball team as a bench player he is thrilled; and when the team's star second baseman (and all around annoyance) Kyle, breaks his foot in the very first game the coach calls on Blake to fill in--but Blake is not sure he can perform as well as Kyle, and even less sure that he can trust Kyle's helpful advice.
76) Spider monkey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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"In this book, young readers will learn about the diet, habitat, behavior and life cycle of spider monkeys."--
77) Crepe factor
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The Winter Market in the French Quarter is in full swing, but murder isn t taking a holiday in the latest from the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Parchment and Old Lace..." "" The holidays are a busy time for scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand but not so hectic that she doesn t have time to enjoy browsing the booths at the Winter Market with her best friend Ava. The last thing the ladies expect to see is a lurching man stabbed by a serving...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
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In a typical school year, every kid has one or two things go wrong. But for Jordan, there's A LOT going wrong ALL THE TIME. Take this year. Here are some of the thing going wrong: His teacher hates him. Like, really hates him. Like, is totally out to get him even when he's trying to be good, and is willing to fail him on the simplest things, like show and tell. He has a slight breathing problem because of his asthma. And breathing is never really...