family

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Diary of a wimpy kid

the last straw
2009
Middle-schooler Greg Heffley nimbly sidesteps his father's attempts to change Greg's wimpy ways until his father threatens to send him to military school.

One hundred is a family

1996
Groups making up many different kinds of "families" introduce the numbers from one to ten and then by tens to one hundred.

Finally

2011
After her twelfth birthday, Rory checks off a list of things she is finally allowed to do, but unexpected consequences interfere with her involvement in the movie being shot at her school, while a weird prediction starts to make sense.

Life in Viking times.

2016
Describes life in the early days of Viking times.

Life in Roman times.

2016
Describes life in the early days of Roman times.

Jane Austen's Pride & prejudice

2009
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.

Scurvy Goonda

2011
At age fourteen, Ted Merritt is eager to replace his imaginary friend, a bacon-loving pirate, with real friends but soon he is led from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, into a world of discarded "abstract companions" who are intent on wreaking vengeance on the human race.

A crooked kind of perfect

2008
Ten-year-old Zoe Elias, who longs to play the piano but must resign herself to learning the organ, instead, finds that her musicianship has a positive impact on her workaholic mother, her jittery father, and her school social life.

Estas manos

manitas de mi familia
A girl gives thanks for her family's love, caring, and kindness, and likens each family member's hands to a symbolically significant flower or tree. Text in both Spanish and English.

My family

Color illustrations and simple text introduce readers to various family members.

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