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- Walking for water : how one boy stood up for gender equality / by Hughes, Susan,1960-; Miles, Nicole.;
- A boy, Victor, realizes that the girls in his Malawi village are not being treated the same as the boys. When he and his twin sister Linesi turn eight years old, he still attends to school but Linesi, like other girls and women in the community, has to walk to the river several times a day to get water for the family. Victor comes up with a plan to help. Based on the true story of a Malawian boy, the book also includes information about education and water availability in Malawi, resources and a glossary of Chichewa words.LSC
- Subjects: Sex discrimination against women; Women; Sex role; Brothers and sisters; Water-supply;
- My little pony equestria girls friendship games [videorecording (BLURAY)]. by Strong, Tara; Ball, Ashleigh; St. Germain, Tabitha; Libman, Andrea;
- Tara Strong, Ashleigh Ball, Tabitha St. Germain, Andrea Libman.Canterlot High meets its rival school, Crystal Prep Academy, in a competition that's a long-standing tradition-TheFriendship Games. Sunset Shimmer is tasked with keeping magic out of the games to avoid the appearance of impropriety while she and her friends compete against Crystal Prep's top students led by someone with an equal amount of interest in Equestrian magic.TV rating: TV-Y.Blu-ray.
- Subjects: Children's.; Children's films.; Animated.; Canadian.;
- © 2014., Shout! Factory,
- Twins [yoto card] : Yoto card / by Johnson, Varian.; Wright, Shannon(Illustrator);
- Read by Ahnya O'Riordan; Grace Capeless; Mashari Bain; Malcolm Bowen; Antoinette Comer; André Blake; Armand Xavier Rufen-Blanchette.For use with a Yoto Player, the Yoto Player app on a device or NFC touchpoint to stream.Maureen and Francine Carter are twins and best friends. They participate in the same clubs, enjoy the same foods, and are partners on all their school projects. But just before the girls start sixth grade, Francine becomes Fran -- a girl who wants to join the chorus, run for class president, and dress in fashionable outfits that set her apart from Maureen. A girl who seems happy to share only two classes with her sister! Maureen and Francine are growing apart and there's nothing Maureen can do to stop it. Are sisters really forever? Or will middle school change things for good? Ages 8 to 12.System requirements: 1 Yoto Player smart speaker or Yoto Player app on a device or NFC touchpoint to stream.
- Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Sound recordings.; Sisters; Twins; Sibling rivalry; Middle schools; Maturation (Psychology); Preloaded audiobook.; Yoto audio card.;
- © 2021., Yoto Inc.
- Inspection : a novel / by Malerman, Josh,author.;
- "Boys are being trained at one school for geniuses, girls at another. And neither knows the other exists--until now. The innovative author of Bird Box invites you into a tantalizing world of secrets and lies. J is a student at a school deep in a forest far away from the rest of the world. J is one of only twenty-six students, who think of their enigmatic school's founder as their father. His fellow peers are the only family J has ever had. The students are being trained to be prodigies of art, science, and athletics, and their life at the school is all they know--and all they are allowed to know. But J is beginning to suspect that there is something out there, beyond the pines, that the founder does not want him to see, and he's beginning to ask questions. What is the real purpose of this place? Why can the students never leave? And what secrets is their father hiding from them? Meanwhile, on the other side of the forest, in a school very much like J's, a girl named K is asking the same questions. J has never seen a girl, and K has never seen a boy. As K and J work to investigate the secrets of their two strange schools, they come to discover something even more mysterious: each other"--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Schools;
- A long way home / by Little, Jean,1932-2020.; Grimard, Gabrielle.;
- Jane and Maya are very different. Maya is a quiet girl and a refugee, new to this country, while chatty and outgoing Jane has lived in the same place her whole life. The girls become friends at school, where they learn about endangered species and decide to do their own small part to help by supporting migrating monarch butterflies. Together they plant a milkweed garden to feed and shelter the tiny creatures, then watch in amazement as the monarchs go through their life cycle before leaving on their long journey to Mexico. After all the butterflies have departed Maya finally speaks up about her own long journey to Canada and wishes the monarchs safety in their new home too.LSC
- Subjects: Monarch butterfly; Girls; Friendship;
- Delia's dull day : an incredibly boring story / by Myer, Andy.;
- "A little girl complains that her life is boring, never realizing that amazing things are happening around her such as elephants marching through her house, a pirate sitting behind her on the school bus, or a submarine in her pool"-Provided by the publisher.LSC
- Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Boredom;
- © c2012., Sleeping Bear Press,
- Agent Cody Banks. by Zwart, Harald,film director.; Francis, Andrew,actor.; Muniz, Frankie,actor.; Duff, Hilary,actor.; MGM (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
- Andrew Francis, Frankie Muniz, Hilary DuffOriginally produced by MGM in 2003.Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz), a high school student and newly-recruited junior CIA agent, is on his first mission to stop an evil mastermind from misusing technology created by a brilliant scientist, Dr. Connors (Martin Donovan), to rule the world. The agency sends Cody to work undercover at a private school where Connors’ daughter, Natalie (Hilary Duff), is a student; however, he’s awkward around girls and off to a rough start. Can Cody save the world, get the girl…and not miss curfew?Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Action and adventure films.; Comedy.; Motion pictures.;
- The new girl : a novel / by Silva, Daniel,1960-author.;
- At an exclusive private school in Switzerland, mystery surrounds the identity of the beautiful girl who arrives each morning and leaves each afternoon in a heavily protected motorcade fit for a head of state. She is said to be the daughter of a wealthy international businessman. She is not. And when she is brutally kidnapped across the border in the Haute-Savoie region of France, Gabriel Allon, the legendary chief of Israeli intelligence, is thrust into a deadly secret war with an old enemy that will determine the future of the Middle East-- and perhaps the world ...
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Spy fiction.; Allon, Gabriel (Fictitious character); Intelligence officers; Kidnapping; Adventure stories;
- A morning with Grann / by Dumond-Desir, Samanka.;
- In Book 2 of this early reader series about a Haitian-American girl named Liline, her cat Pepper, and their multi-generational family, Liline and Pepper learn a little about Grann's homeland, Haiti, during the morning routine of getting ready for school.
- Subjects: Readers (Publications); Best friends; Grandparents;
- Field trip to the moon / by Hare, John.;
- In this wordless picture book, a girl is accidentally left behind on a class trip to the moon.LSC
- Subjects: Science fiction.; Stories without words.; School field trips; Human-alien encounters;
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