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The book of books : Explore America's 100 Best-loved Novels
by Jessica Allen
Illustrated with original-manuscript and first-edition covers, a companion to the PBS 2018 summer series reveals America's 100 best-loved novels, profiling each for author stories, social relevance, media adaptations, rejections and bannings.
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Diario de una adolescente
by Anne Frank
The diary of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who chronicled her day-to-day life as she hid in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years
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The diary of a young girl
by Anne Frank
A young girl's journal records her family's struggles during two years of hiding from the Nazis in war-torn Holland
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The life and times of the thunderbolt kid : a memoir
by Bill Bryson
The best-selling author of A Walk in the Woods and I'm a Stranger Here Myself describes his all-American childhood growing up as a member of the baby boom generation in the heart of Iowa, detailing his rich fantasy life as a superhero known as the Thunderbolt Kid and his his remarkably normal 1950s family life.
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The Totally Useless History of the World
by Ian Crofton
Imagine a history that spares you the details of such seminal events as the First Crusade, that fails to say much at all about the Congress of Vienna, and that entirely neglects to mention the world-changing moment that was the American Declaration of Independence.
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The annotated Peter Pan
by J. M. Barrie
The chair of the Program in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University offers an annotated version of the classic story of the boy who never grows up that includes period photos and a discussion of the tale's controversial history.
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Malala, mi historia / Malala, my history
by Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai solo tenia diez anos cuando los talibanes se apoderaron de su region. Decian que la musica era pecado. Decian que las mujeres no debian ir al mercado. Decian que las ninas no debian ir al colegio.Malala crecio en una pacifica region de Pakistan transformada por el terrorismo. Aprendio a defender sus convicciones y lucho por su derecho a la educacion. El 9 de octubre de 2012 estuvo a punto de perder la vida por la causa: le dispararon a quemarropa en el autobus cuando volvia a casa del colegio. Nadie creia que fuera a sobrevivir.Se ha convertido en un simbolo internacional de la protesta pacifica y es la persona mas joven en haber recibido el Premio Nobel de la Paz. En esta edicion de sus memorias para jovenes lectores, que incluye nuevos materiales y fotografias, escuchamos de primera mano la extraordinaria historia de una nina que, desde muy pequena, sabia que queria cambiar el mundo y lo hizo.
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Tres tazas de te : La lucha de un hombre para promover la paz...escuela a escuela
by Greg Mortenson
En 1993, un montañero llamado Greg Mortenson regresaba de un intento fallido de alcanzar la cumbre del K2. Exhausto y desorientado, acabo desviándose del camino de descenso y alejándose de su grupo para vagar perdido por una de las zonas más desoladas del norte de Pakistán. Solo y sin comida, agua o una carpa bajo la que protegerse, se encontró de pronto en una pobre aldea pakistaní, donde le cuidaron hasta su recuperación. Antes de regresar a casa, Mortenson les prometió volver y construir una escuela. De aquella promesa nació una de las campañas humanitarias más increíbles de la historia: la misión de un hombre de luchar contra el extremismo y el terrorismo construyendo escuelas.Book Annotation
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To kill a mockingbird
by Harper Lee
The fortieth-anniversary edition of an American classic follows the adventures of two children, their lawyer father, and a mysterious neighbor in a small southern town.
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Dewey : the small-town library cat who touched the world
by Vicki Myron
Traces the author's discovery of a half-frozen kitten in the drop-box of her small-community Iowa library and the feline's development into an affable library mascot whose intuitive nature prompted hundreds of abiding friendships, in a tale told against a backdrop of the town's struggles with the 1980s farm crisis.
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Marley & me : life and love with the world's worst dog
by John Grogan
Follows the life story of an exuberant golden Labrador who gets into perpetual trouble and experiences a range of inspiring adventures, from comforting his human companions in the aftermath of a devastating miscarriage, to shutting down an entire beach, to guarding a seventeen-year-old neighbor in the aftermath of a stabbing attack.
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We bought a zoo
by Benjamin Mee
Traces how the author, a Guardian Weekend columnist for "Do It Yourself," relocated his family to the site of a dilapidated zoo in the hopes of refurbishing it, an endeavor marked by such challenges as the needs of more than 200 exotic animals and the tragic loss of his wife.
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