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When her adorable baby brother is replaced by an ugly, ill-tempered changeling, Mollie is determined to find the so-called Kinde Folke who took baby Thomas, return the changeling she calls Guest, and make them give Thomas back. Natural and magical obstacles and her own reckless temperament make her journey arduous and full of dangers, and a plot rich in surprises and twists makes this book a must-listen for Mary Downing Hahn’s fans.

Long before she was one of the Little Rock Nine, Melba Pattillo Beals was a warrior. Frustrated by the laws that kept African Americans separate but very much unequal to whites, she had questions: Why couldn't she drink from a whites-only fountain? Why couldn't she feel safe beyond home - or even within the walls of church? Adults all told her: Hold your tongue. Be patient. Know your place. But Beals had the heart of a fighter - and the knowledge that her true place was a free one.

Tom Sawyer's and Huckleberry Finn's adventures are legendary, but what about the story you haven't heard? In 1860, eleven-year-old Becky Thatcher is the new girl in town, determined to have adventures like she promised her brother Jon before he died. Before long, she joins the boys at school in a bet to steal from the Widow Douglas, and Becky convinces her new best friend, Amy Lawrence, to join her. But the theft doesn't go as planned, and Widow Douglas ends up being unfairly accused of grave robbing as a result.

Zauberhaft und geheimnisvoll ist Astrid Lindgrens Märchenwelt. Petra und Peter, zwei Kinder so groß wie Puppen, tauchen plötzlich in der Schule auf...

Einschwein benimmt sich mal wieder vollkommen unmagisch. Deshalb findet Emmi, dass es Unterricht von einem richtigen Einhorn braucht, um zu lernen, wie man anständig mit Horn zaubert. Aber da ahnen die beiden noch nicht, wie anstrengend so ein Promi-Leben als Einhorn ist, denn das beliebte Fabelwesen kann sich vor Fans kaum retten. Auch seinem Besitzer Henry ist der Trubel gründlich zu viel. Schließlich kommen alle vier in ernste Schwierigkeiten, als eine Brausefirma dem Einhorn nachstellt. Da gibt es nur noch eins: Das Einhorn braucht die Hilfe vom kleinen Einschwein.

Dovey Johnson Roundtree was most famous for her successful defense of an indigent Black man accused of the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer, a prominent White Washington, DC, socialite, in 1965. Despite her triumph in this high-profile case, Roundtree continued to represent the poor and the underserved. She was the first lawyer to bring a bus-desegregation case before the Interstate Commerce Commission, clinching the ruling that enabled Robert F. Kennedy to enforce bus integration. She was also among the first Black women to enter the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps.

Juhu, es geht los! Das neue Schuljahr auf dem Matilda Imperatrix, dem Internat für Mädchen mit außerordentlichen Fähigkeiten, beginnt! Die Freundinnen Flo und Pina beratschlagen schon, wie sie die Geländespiele gewinnen und die beiden Oberzicken Cilly und Lilly abhängen können. Doch dann kommt der große Schreck: Flos kleine Schwester Charly verschwindet spurlos! Flo verdächtigt sofort die Neue in ihrem Zimmer.

On a quiet weekend in the country, Sammy and her friends meet Lucinda Huntley and her 200-pound pig, and become involved in a centuries old family feud involving Lucinda's great grandma Moustache Mary. When Mary's pioneer cabin burns to the ground, it's up to Sammy to dig up the cause as the past collides with the present in this highly combustible mystery!

The Blessing Trail: God's Blessings Along the Way by Wendy Reardon is a collection of stories designed to entertain and educate children of all ages. The book aims to help children develop empathy, understand how to build relationships, and recognize the challenges others face.

High above the jungle floor, fearless Zoe, explorer extraordinaire, catches a glimpse of the rare, wild Addiebeast. She springs over the treeline in hot pursuit, and then Zoe's mother calls, "We're leaving in five minutes!" Yet Zoe still has so much to do on the playground, which transforms into a jungle in her imagination!

Consider school days the worst days. Don't consider school a necessary evil because we don't need school. Break free from school. Unschooling is the way out so these poems hopefully will inspire you to unschool yourself and the world.

Dante loves nothing more than scoring goals on the football pitch then racing to Shimmer & Shine to ace his pas de chats. But when his football friends start to tease him for his passion, Dante struggles to find the confidence to keep doing the two things he loves most. Will encouraging Miss Diamond to enter their class into a dance competition be just what Dante needs to prove how fantastic dance can be?

Indu loves learning ballet at Shimmer & Shine, her local community dance school. Unlike her friends, she doesn't want to be a principal dancer when she grows up, and she's a bit scared of being on stage, but it's still one of her favorite hobbies. Until Miss Diamond announces that this term they'll be putting on a performance of Cinderella! Suddenly everyone's talking about what lead role they want and how fun it will be to dance for an audience, and Indu is feeling nervous and left out.

In der zwanzigsten und letzten Ella-Folge dreht sich alles um die Frage, ob Timo sein eigenes Reiterdenkmal bekommt. Ellas Lehrer wird vom Schulleiter wieder zum normalen Lehrer degradiert. Ellas Klasse findet das super, denn so ist der Lehrer wieder permanent im Klassenraum und nicht im ollen Direktorenzimmer. Dann wird der neue, merkwürdig weihnachtlich aussehende Schulleiter vorgestellt. Die Klasse ist begeistert, außer Pekka, der sich Sorgen um die Weihnachtsgeschenke macht. Auch um Timo, der sich in der Mülltonne versteckt hat, machen alle sich Sorgen. Was ist mit Timo los, und haben die Pferde etwas damit zu tun?

Even after the institution of slavery became illegal, the legacy of slavery continued through injustices created by the Jim Crow laws. Learn more about these discriminatory laws that have shaped America's past and present. Inspired by a belief that knowledge is power, Read Woke Books seek to amplify the voices of people who are not white, provide information about groups that have been disenfranchised, share perspectives of people who have been underrepresented or oppressed, challenge social norms and disrupt the status quo, and encourage readers to take action in their community.

When Yara joins Shimmer & Shine, a community dance school, she meets lots of other children her age, who are there to either start their training or just for the fun of it. Soon she has a group of ballet besties she loves to dance with. But then Dame Clougston-Wilmott, their grumpy, dance-hating landlady threatens to close the studio. Suddenly it's up to Yara and her new friends to keep Shimmer & Shine open!

Il passaggio dalla scuola elementare alla media è spesso un salto nel vuoto. Si passa da un ambiente in cui tutto è prevedibile e controllato a uno in cui viene richiesto di cominciare a fare da soli, affrontando nel corso del triennio situazioni di vita impreviste e sfide importanti. Il corpo si trasforma a una velocità sorprendente, cambiano i punti di riferimento, si vivono nuove relazioni e ci si mette alla prova. Insomma, si diventa grandi. Ma quali sono le regole di questo mondo tutto da scoprire?

So - the presidential election of 2016 happened. You cried, you ranted, you marched. But how do you stay engaged for the long term? How do you keep fighting while also continuing your real life? How do you get involved when you feel far from the action? How do you stay vigilant without being furious all. the. time? Needing to take action after the election, Emma Gray, Executive Women's Editor at HuffPost, put on her journalist hat and set out to get answers to these questions from some of the most prominent thought leaders and activists of our time.

Jojo has everything planned out for the perfect first day of middle school, down to her outfit and hairstyle. But when Mom, distracted by her new live-in boyfriend, Paul, forgets to wake Jojo up, she oversleeps and has to make do with leggings, a t-shirt, and her brother’s hoodie. The day still goes okay until Jojo realizes that she has a hole in her leggings thanks to Purrito, the kitten Paul “gifted” her. Because Paul isn’t just Paul; he’s Mr. Meow, a mega-famous cat-fluencer.

Jinx felt something rumble through the room. She began to shake and moved closer to Jackson. "Do you feel that?" she whispered. Jackson nodded. When Jinx glanced at him, his face had turned bright white. As if he'd seen a ghost. When a popular girl named Emily asks Jinx and Jackson to explore a haunting in her dad's apartment, Jackson insists they take the case. And the truth they find is even stranger than Emily's story.