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Referee (Earning $50,000 - $100,000 with a High S #14)
by Marty GitlinFor many high school graduates, college is a way to get ahead, but going to college is not the only way for young adults to succeed. Many people choose to enter the workforce after high school to start earning money and gaining experience right away. These motivated young workers can have rewarding jobs without ever having to earn a 4-year college degree. If you're interested in sports and don't know that you want to--or can--go to college, a career as a referee may be right for you. Young people need only a high school diploma or equivalent to start work as a referee, and they can eventually earn more than $50,000 a year. In Referee, you'll learn how to start a career as a sports official and what you need to succeed in the field. Find out about the prospects for careers for sports officials in the future, how much referees can make each year, and whether your path to success includes a career as a referee.
Let's Talk About S-E-X
by Sam Gitchel Lorri FosterFirst created by Planned Parenthood/Mar Monte in the late 1980's, this well loved, updated guide insures that children will be given accurate, age-appropriate information about sex. This read-together book helps to begin an open dialogue in the family.Parents and educators will find discussions of feelings, respecting oneself and others, what's normal, making sense of love and sex, and helpful advice. The book is filled with sound information, illustrations and diagrams, appropriate body terminology, information on STDs and more. Here, the changes all preteens go through are explaned in a simple, straight-forward manner.In the Parent's Guide (in the back of the book) is the information on how approach the BIG TALK in a way that is comfortable and positive.
Life Hacks: All of the Answers, None of the Awks
by GirlfriendGet all the answers with none of the awks in this essential guide to surviving and thriving as a teen girl, from Australia's number one teen mag.Girlfriend Life Hacks is here to answer every question that you are too embarrassed to ask. Created with Girlfriend, Australia's number one magazine for teen girls, this is the essential guide to life, covering everything from your body, mental health, friends and bullying to sexuality - all written in the smart, cheeky style that makes Girlfriend mag so popular.Girlfriend Life Hacks can be trusted to deliver all the information teens want and need without talking down to them, all in a gorgeously colourful package.
The Ham Who Cried Wolf (Fastback Spy Series)
by Ken GirardMike, a CB radio buff, often picked up strange, foreign signals. Then he stumbles onto something even he can't believe.
Truthers (No Series)
by Geoffrey GirardKatie Wallace has never given much thought to 9/11. She was only a year old when terrorists struck American soil. But now her dad has landed in a mental institution after claiming to know what really happened. He insists the attacks were part of a government conspiracy. And he claims that Katie is living proof: the lone survivor of a massive cover-up. Hoping to free her dad, Katie sets out to investigate his bizarre claims. Soon she's drawn into the strange and secretive world of 9/11 conspiracy theorists known as the Truthers. What is fact and what is fiction? Katie no longer knows what to believe.
Hound-Dog Man
by Fred Gipson12-year-old Cotton is disappointed when he doesn't get a dog for Christmas. Then he bonds with a young hound while on a hunting trip with his friend and an unusual man named Blackie.
Old Yeller
by Fred GipsonAt first, Travis couldn't stand the sight of Old Yeller<P><P> The stray dog was ugly, and a thieving rascal, too. But he sure was clever, and a smart dog could be a big help on the wild Texas frontier, especially with Papa away on a long cattle drive up to Abilene.<P> Strong and courageous, Old Yeller proved that he could protect Travis's family from any sort of danger. But can Travis do the same for Old Yeller?<P> <b>Newbery Medal Honors book<P> Winner of Pacific Northwest Library Association’s Young Reader’s Choice Award</b>
WW2 in Europe (Great Battles for Boys)
by Joe Giorello Sibella GiorelloBeginning with Hitler's invasion of Poland, Great Battles for Boys: WW2 Europe takes young readers to the front lines of the war’s most important clashes. Boys will discover the raw history of warfare and learn the battles in chronological order. From Stalingrad’s hand-to-hand street fighting and the world's largest tank action at Kursk to the spy-led invasion of Sicily and the surprise D-Day invasion of Normandy—and many other exciting battles!
WW2 in the Pacific (Great Battles for Boys)
by Joe Giorello Sibella GiorelloGreat Battles for Boys takes young readers to the front lines of history's most important fights. In this episode of the best-selling history series, the story opens with the Flying Tigers, those wild American soldiers fighting Japan before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. After the deadly surprise attack on Hawaii, the battles storm across the Pacific in the lethal "island hopping" military strategy that brought Victory Over Japan.
Roads to Family: All the Ways We Come to Be
by Rachel HS GinocchioExamine—and appreciate—the many ways in which people can create a family. This informative compendium goes beyond the basics of sexual reproduction to examine the diversity of medical and societal methods people use, including in-vitro fertilization, surrogacy, adoption, and more. Through scientific research, diagrams, and interviews with families, author Rachel Ginocchio provides a thoughtful and thorough examination of the possibilities available.
Our Story Begins: Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids
by Alex Gino Ashley Bryan Brian Selznick Candace Fleming Chris Gall Chris Grabenstein Cynthia Leitich Smith Dan Santat Elissa Brent Weissman Gail Carson Levine Gordon Korman Grace Lin Jarrett J. Krosoczka Kathi Appelt Kwame Alexander Linda Sue Park Marla Frazee Peter Lerangis Phyllis Reynolds Naylor R. J. Palacio Rita Williams-Garcia Eric Rohmann Thanhha Lai Tim Federle Tom Angleberger Yuyi MoralesFrom award-winning author Elissa Brent Weissman comes a collection of quirky, smart, and vulnerable childhood works by some of today’s foremost children’s authors and illustrators—revealing young talent, the storytellers they would one day become, and the creativity they inspire today.Everyone’s story begins somewhere… For Linda Sue Park, it was a trip to the ocean, a brand-new typewriter, and a little creative license. For Jarrett J. Krosoczka, it was a third grade writing assignment that ignited a creative fire in a kid who liked to draw. For Kwame Alexander, it was a loving poem composed for Mother’s Day—and perfected through draft after discarded draft. For others, it was a teacher, a parent, a beloved book, a word of encouragement. It was trying, and failing, and trying again. It was a love of words, and pictures, and stories. Your story is beginning, too. Where will it go?
Alice Austen Lived Here
by Alex GinoFrom the award-winning author of George, a phenomenal novel about queerness past, present, and future.Sam is very in touch with their own queer identity. They're nonbinary, and their best friend, TJ, is nonbinary as well. Sam's family is very cool with it… as long as Sam remembers that nonbinary kids are also required to clean their rooms, do their homework, and try not to antagonize their teachers too much.The teacher-respect thing is hard when it comes to Sam’s history class, because their teacher seems to believe that only Dead Straight Cis White Men are responsible for history. When Sam’s home borough of Staten Island opens up a contest for a new statue, Sam finds the perfect non-DSCWM subject: photographer Alice Austen, whose house has been turned into a museum, and who lived with a female partner for decades.Soon, Sam's project isn't just about winning the contest. It's about discovering a rich queer history that Sam's a part of -- a queer history that no longer needs to be quiet, as long as there are kids like Sam and TJ to stand up for it.
George
by Alex GinoCuando la gente ve a George, cree que es un niño. Pero ella sabe que no es verdad. George sabe que es una niña. George cree que jamás podrá decirle a nadie que ella, en realidad, es una niña. Un día, su profesora anuncia que su clase va a representar una obra de teatro. Y George desea con todas sus fuerzas el papel de la niña protagonista, Charlotte. Pero su profesora le dice que ni siquiera puede hacer la prueba para el papel... porque es un chico. Con la ayuda de Kelly, su mejor amiga, George traza un plan. No solo para poder ser Charlotte en la obra, sino para que todo el mundo sepa, de una vez por todas, que es ella en realidad. George es una historia tierna, genuina y conmovedora. Un libro para aprender a aceptarnos como somos. Reseñas:«Yo lo dejé todo para leerlo, y tú harás lo mismo. Me encanta como editor, sí, pero también me gusta como escritor, como lector, pero sobre todo, como ser humano. Es todo lo que quiero para el mundo, en forma de libro.»David Levithan, autor de El sueño de Tiny Cooper «LÉELO.»John Green, autor de Bajo la misma estrella «La novela debut de Gino es un retrato sensible y perspicaz de un niño transexual que llega a reconciliarse con su identidad sexual.»Booklist «Profundo, conmovedor y radiante, este libro permanecerá con cualquiera que tenga la suerte de encontrarlo.»Publisher#s Weekly
Green
by Alex GinoFrom the bestselling author of MELISSA, a new book putting a non-binary kid named Green at center stage.Middle-grade superstar author Alex Gino returns to the world they began with MELISSA and RICK with GREEN, the story of a non-binary middle-schooler named Green who comes into their own in no small part by fighting for gender-free casting in their school’s production of THE WIZARD OF OZ.
Rick
by Alex GinoFrom the award-winning author of George, the story of a boy named Rick who needs to explore his own identity apart from his jerk of a best friend. <p><p>Rick's never questioned much. <p><p>He's gone along with his best friend Jeff even when Jeff's acted like a bully and a jerk. He's let his father joke with him about which hot girls he might want to date even though that kind of talk always makes him uncomfortable. And he hasn't given his own identity much thought, because everyone else around him seemed to have figured it out. <p><p>But now Rick's gotten to middle school, and new doors are opening. One of them leads to the school's Rainbow Spectrum club, where kids of many genders and identities congregate, including Melissa, the girl who sits in front of Rick in class and seems to have her life together. Rick wants his own life to be that . . . understood. Even if it means breaking some old friendships and making some new ones. <p><p> As they did in their groundbreaking novel George, in Rick, award-winning author Alex Gino explores what it means to search for your own place in the world . . . and all the steps you and the people around you need to take in order to get where you need to be.
You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P! (Scholastic Press Novels)
by Alex GinoJilly thinks she's figured out how life works. But when her sister, Emma, is born deaf, she realizes how much she still has to learn. The world is going to treat Jilly, who is white and hearing, differently from Emma, just as it will treat them both differently from their Black cousins.A big fantasy reader, Jilly makes a connection online with another fantasy fan, Derek, who is a Deaf, Black ASL user. She goes to Derek for help with Emma but doesn't always know the best way or time to ask for it.As she and Derek meet in person, have some really fun conversations, and become friends, Jilly makes some mistakes . . . but comes to understand that it's up to her, not Derek to figure out how to do better next time--especially when she wants to be there for Derek the most. Within a world where kids like Derek and Emma aren't assured the same freedom or safety as kids like Jilly, Jilly is starting to learn all the things she doesn't know--and by doing that, she's also working to discover how to support her family and her friends. With You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P!, award-winning author Alex Gino uses their trademark humor, heart, and humanity to show readers how being open to difference can make you a better person, and how being open to change can make you change in the best possible ways.
Samantha Spinner and the Boy in the Ball (Samantha Spinner #3)
by Russell GinnsGet ready for more round-the-world adventure with Samantha Spinner and her brother, Nipper, in the third book in this hilarious, puzzle-packed series filled with super-secret messages! Perfect for fans of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library and classics like Holes.At last! Samantha Spinner tracked down her uncle! Now it's her big chance to learn everything. And now that he's safe and sound, it's time to get some answers.There are so many questions to ask--it's almost impossible to know where to start. Where did the RAIN come from? And what about the SUN? Who made the umbrella and all the incredible ways to travel? What did Uncle Paul mean when he told her to watch out for the...Wait a minute. Nipper's missing. Where did he go? What's that strange trail of yarn? Can't a girl take her eyes off her super-annoying little brother for ten minutes?(If you've been paying attention, then you know that the answer to that last question is "No! Of course not!")Praise for the Samantha Spinner series:"A winning mix of fast-paced action, fascinating facts, bathroom humor, and hidden puzzles . . . [that is] sure to please action-loving middle-grade readers." --Kirkus Reviews"Wild, wacky, and occasionally gross." --The Bulletin
Samantha Spinner and the Perplexing Pants (Samantha Spinner #4)
by Russell GinnsTake another super-big globe-trotting, plaid pants spotting adventure with Samantha Spinner and her brother, Nipper, in the fourth book in this hilarious, puzzle-packed series! Perfect for fans of Mr. Lemoncello's Library and the Secret series, and classics like Holes and The Westing Game.Samantha Spinner's Uncle Paul has gone missing again. But this time, he left behind a yellow mitten and a note: Watch out for the SNOW!That's weird, especially because they're in Seattle . . . and it's the middle of summer!Samantha has defeated ninjas, battled clowns, and faced down daredevils. But with the sinister SNOW, she may have met her math!*A puzzling uncle, a mission to Michigan, and a mysterious mitten. Let's hope Samantha's super-annoying brother can lend her a hand with . . . the PERPLEXING PANTS!*That's a super-secret clue.
Samantha Spinner and the Spectacular Specs (Samantha Spinner #2)
by Russell GinnsGet ready for more round-the-world adventure with Samantha Spinner and her brother, Nipper, in the second book in this hilarious, puzzle-packed series filled with super-secret messages! Perfect for fans of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library and classics like Holes.When Samantha Spinner's uncle Paul disappeared, he left presents for his nieces and nephew. Samantha's sister, Buffy, got $2,400,000,000. Her brother, Nipper, got the New York Yankees. Samantha got . . . a rusty old umbrella.Wow! So unfair, Uncle Paul.Well, it seemed unfair--until Samantha discovered that the old umbrella holds the plans for a super-secret network of transit systems that covers the globe. It's the ticket to danger and adventure beyond anyone's wildest dreams.But Uncle Paul is still missing. And Samantha just received a new gift from him: a pair of strange purple sunglasses. Are they another powerful present? A clue to his whereabouts? Or just a bad fashion choice? Samantha and Nipper need to figure it out fast, because . . . here comes the SUN!Praise for Samantha Spinner and the Super Secret Plans, Book 1 in the Samantha Spinner series:"A winning mix of fast-paced action, fascinating facts, bathroom humor, and hidden puzzles . . . [that is] sure to please action-loving middle-grade readers." --Kirkus Reviews"Full of adventure and survival . . . [and with] characters [who] are likable, realistic, and well rounded . . . [Samantha Spinner and the Super-Secret Plans is] great for [readers of] series like The 39 Clues." --School Library Journal
1-2-3 Scream!
by R. U. GinnsGet ready to scream with this collection of hillarifying—hilariously terrifying—tales, fully-illustrated and perfect for scary story lovers who are looking for a side of humor to go with their helpings of horror.Stop!Unless you want to be scared, do NOT read this book. These tales of terror are so horrible, so alarming, they had to be bound up between these pages forever!You&’ll discover The Boogerman, an oozing horror that lurks in mirrors. You&’ll read about Instagrave, a popular new app that tells kids how they are going to die. In Epizeuxis, you&’ll learn what happens if you speak the name of a—wait. We&’ve said too much already. The things between these covers are too dangerous to ever be let out. That's why we're warning you: stay away from this book, or else!Of course, if you are reckless enough to open this book, then be sure to read these stories in a safe, indoor space, far from the beady, prying eyes of any birds*.Now, on the count of three: 1…2…3…SCREAM!*Is that a crow, a magpie, or an indigo bunting behind you? Be careful. Birds will do anything to keep people from discovering the secrets of this book!
Pieces of Me
by Charlotte Gingras Susan OuriouMirabelle's art teacher tells her she has talent, but what good is it doing her. Almost fifteen and friendless, Mira is plagued by dark thoughts. Her body seems to be changing daily. Her mother is domineering and half-crazy and her father -- well, he's her ex-father, mostly out of Mira's life and awkward when he's around.
At All Costs (Core Ser.)
by John GilstrapThat Rare Beast: A Superior Page-Turner That Manages To Pull At Your Heart. --David BaldacciThe Brightons are just an ordinary, small-town, law-abiding family. Until somebody else's mistake uncovers the truth--Jake and Carolyn Brighton are the FBI's two most wanted fugitives. Jake and Carolyn have lived a lie for fourteen years to protect themselves. But now they have to protect their thirteen-year-old son, Travis. Their only chance is to return to the hellish scene of an unprecedented crime, and collect the evidence that may finally set them free--if they can elude a massive manhunt long enough to get there. "A Flat-Out, In-Your-Face Thrill Ride, Filled With Unexpected Twists, Sinister Turns, Clever Plotting, And Top-Drawer Writing. Gilstrap's Characters Are Wonderfully Sketched And His Dialogue Is Rich With The Language Of Real People. At All Costs Demands To Be Read. At Any Price." --Lorenzo Carcaterra"Heart-Pounding." --Tess Gerritsen"An Irresistible Roller Coaster Of Suspense." --Robert Crais
The New Kid at School #1
by Stephen Gilpin Kate Mcmullan Bill BassoWhen a traveling minstrel foretells that he is to become a hero, Wiglaf sets out to fulfill his destiny: he signs up at the Dragon Slayers' Academy. But how can he ever hope to be a dragon slayer when he can't even stand the sight of blood?
Enter Three Witches
by Kate GilmoreBren wondered, but not for long, why his normally cheerful, easy-going life had suddenly begun to seem hopelessly complicated. He was learning to run the lights for his school's production of Macbeth, but that was fun, and so was almost everything about his first serious relationship--everything except the fact that he couldn't bring his girl friend home. Bren had never really minded living with three witches, but now he did. How could he explain that his beautiful mother spent hours casting spells in her bat-haunted tower room while his grandmother told fortunes to paying customers in the living room and their housekeeper raised black chickens in the garden apartment for uses it was best not to contemplate? His father, after getting up in the morning to find a baby bat in his shoe and a python in his shirt drawer--the culmination of a long series of such events--had exchanged the spacious old house for a simple, brick box on the East side.To make matters worse, Bren learned that Erika, his girl, had been cast as First Witch in Macbeth, so now he felt himself to be wallowing in witches. She was also not one to take no for an answer and soon bent an agile mind to unraveling the mystery of Bren's family. When on opening night only Erika saw three figures outlined in blue fire at the balcony rail, the amazing technical effects that followed were explained, if only to her."One of the most intelligently funny young-adult fantasies to come out in years..."--2/LOCUS May 1991"The combination of first romance and magic is a dynamic one, and Gilmore nimbly carries off the blend with wit and grace."--Booklist, starred review
Hodder Education Caribbean History: Empires And Conquests
by John Gilmore Beryl Allen Dian McCallumProvide students with a solid foundation in Caribbean history and encourage social studies skills, with an active approach to the study of social history for Lower Secondary. - Ensure full coverage with content spanning history from ancient civilisations to more recent 21st Century events. - Prepare students for studies at CSEC level with a solid grounding in Caribbean history.- Provide practice in many different skill areas with activities, including 'What would you do?' problem solving activities. - Encourage students to compare and contrast past events with more recent ones with 'Then and Now' feature. - Inspire interest with relevant archaeological information from the region as well as career options related to the subject as part of the 'Did you know?' feature. - Reinforce learning and test knowledge through comprehensive revision questions.