Shells of the World Coloring Book (Dover Coloring Books)

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Forty-five colorable illustrations of 100 shells, all shown in full color on covers: spider conches, Atlantic Bay scallops, jackknife clams, fig shells, white-edged augurs, flamingo tongues, emperor's slit shell, poisonous textile cone, many more. Captions include common and scientific names.

Coloring Fun With Stickers Underwater World

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Coloring Fun With Stickers Underwater World
Little Star
Manufacturer: International Graphics Group
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ASIN: B000MAMMCM

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Over 30 stickers includes, underwater and sea life coloring and activity book.

The physiology of flowering (Biology studies)
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The physiology of flowering (Biology studies)
William S Hillman
Manufacturer: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007HXA6C

La Physiologie de la floraison: [colloque] Gif-sur-Yvette, 17-21 juillet 1978 (Colloques internationaux du Centre national de la recherche scientifique ; no 285)
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La Physiologie de la floraison: [colloque] Gif-sur-Yvette, 17-21 juillet 1978 (Colloques internationaux du Centre national de la recherche scientifique ; no 285)

Manufacturer: Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique
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ASIN: 2222025567

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Viginia Euwer Wolffs groundbreaking novel, written in free verse, tells the story of fourteen-year-old LaVaughn, who is determined to go to collegeshe just needs the money to get there. When she answers a babysitting ad, LaVaughn meets Jolly, a seventeen-year-old single mother with two kids by different fathers. As she helps Jolly make lemonade out of the lemons her life has given her, LaVaughn learns some lessons outside the classroom.

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Make Lemonade.......2007-05-07

Make Lemonade by Virginia Wolff is an outstanding book. This book is about LaVaughn, a fourteen-year old girl who wants to go to college and is trying to get money to do so. She finds a babysitting job from Jolly, a seventeen-year old girl with two kids, one two-year old and one just a baby. Jolly is struggling with getting a job, paying the bills, and just regular problems. LaVaughn comes into their lives and gives Jolly and her kids the best love and support she can give. Jolly doesn't know what to do, she needs to go back to school but she can't because she has two kids, she needs an education to get a job. Even though life is still a mess for Jolly, LaVaughn is helping her and her kids get their life back on track.
This book is best for young adults. It shows that if you make a wrong decision once, then it could be an obstacle in your life and could keep you from accomplishing your goals. The way Wolff describes all the little details in the book, like when she tells the reader about the way Jollys' kid's look, really gives you a picture of the kids in your mind. The characters of the book include courageous and brave people. These characters know how to love and understand each other by their bold moves to fix their problems. Wolff also shows how the characters really are happy for each other when they succeed or helpful when they really need it. This book is best for young adults. It shows that if you make a wrong decision once, then it could be an obstacle in your life and could keep you from accomplishing your goals

Maumee High School Modern Lit. class review.......2007-03-23

Below are several comments from 9th and 10th grade students at Maumee High School.
Easy to read (Alyssa). (Shaniqua) I'm reading part 2 now! (Sam) It was very realistic. (Becca) It was a fun book to read. (Sarah) It was very moving. (Val) Inspiring! (Melody)Good story line! (Megan) Touching! (Dani) Powerful! (Olivia) Interesting topic! (Nichole) Good moral! (Kate) Everyone can learn something from this novel. (Jessica) The style it was written in is really unique. (Sean) It was boring. (Brett) Good characterization! (Izzy) Overall a good book. (Sarah) It had really good details. (Raquel) An ok book.
Consider it for your class as well - Staci Leach

review.......2007-03-23

I think Make Lemonade overall was a good book. It had some good points to it and let you see into these kids lives. The fact that they are so young, and had to go through these things was eye opening. I didnt really like the ending, It felt like alot was left out, and you wanted more. The author should have had a more complete ending, then it would have been better.

Following Dreams.......2007-02-18

This book tells the story of a fourteen-year-old girl living in a bad city neighborhood with her mom. Her dad was killed in gang crossfire years ago, although he himself was not involved in any gangs. This girl, LaVaughn, is determined to earn money and keep her grades up so she will be able to go to college. Her mother does everything she can to support this dream, and pushes LaVaughn to do her best in school and stay on track.

Then LaVaughn gets a job babysitting for a seventeen-year-old mother of two children. They live in squalid conditions, in a filthy apartment with a roach problem. LaVaughn, against her mother's wishes, sticks with the job even when she stops getting paid, and helps the mother of these children start to put her life back together.

I liked the style of this book, the way it is written in blank verse poetry. This style, plus the conversational tone LaVaughn uses in her narration, really keep the story moving along. I think the story could have had a better ending, although there is a sequel to this book that makes things a bit better.

Make Lemonade.......2007-01-04

My 13-year-old daughter asked me to order this book and when she was done reading it she highly recommended that I read it too. It provided a great opportunity to discuss teenage pregnancy, choices we make, and judgements we shouldn't make. Thank you Virginia Euwer Wolff

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Teenager Overcomes Obstacles
Haven't we heard this story before?
True Believer
I never thought life would be so hard.
O.k, but not as good as the first

True Believer (Make Lemonade Trilogy)
Virginia Euwer Wolff
Manufacturer: Simon Pulse
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0689852886

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At 15, LaVaughn already knows that life is hard and that getting ahead takes a strong mind and an even stronger will. Surrounded by poverty and violence, she strives every day not to be just another inner-city statistic: "My hope is strong like an athlete. Every morning when we walk through the metal detectors to get into school ... it is an important day of dues-paying so I can go to college and be out of here." Last year when she babysat for Jolly, a young unwed mother, she saw firsthand how an unplanned pregnancy can diminish options. So she ignores the boys, studies hard, and hopes it will all be enough to get her into college. Then Jody moves back into the neighborhood. Once LaVaughn's childhood friend, Jody is now "suddenly beautiful... He could be in movies the way the parts of his face go together." If LaVaughn's choices were difficult before Jody, now they're almost impossible. What LaVaughn doesn't know is that Jody has difficult decisions of his own to make--decisions that could turn her carefully ordered world upside down.

The second novel in a proposed trilogy, True Believer picks up where the acclaimed Make Lemonade left off. Virginia Euwer Wolff's verse-prose is as sumptuous as ever, and her descriptions of LaVaughn's day-to-day life and feelings are sympathetic and achingly real. Readers will be eager to see where LaVaughn's choices take her in Wolff's next installment. (Ages 13 and older) --Jennifer Hubert

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LaVaughn is fifteen now, and she's still fiercely determined to go to college. But that's the only thing she's sure about. Loyalty to her father bubbles up as her mother grows closer to a new man. The two girls she used to do everything with have chosen a path LaVaughn wants no part of. And then there's Jody. LaVaughn can't believe how gorgeous he is...or how confusing. He acts like he's in love with her, but is he?

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Teenager Overcomes Obstacles.......2007-05-31

LaVaughn was the main character in the first book of this trilogy, called "Make Lemondade." However, this book has little to do with the first one, and can be read on its own.

LaVaughn is a teenager who lives in the inner city with her mother. Her father was killed years ago, caught in gang crossfire. LaVaughn and her mother do not have much money, but her mother is determined that her daughter will achieve her dream of going to college.

In this story, LaVaughn is struggling with a lot. First there is the issue of her two best friends. All of a sudden they have decided to devote their lives to Jesus and a radical church group. This group is very exclusive and encourages its members to only do church activities and spend time with other members of the church group. LaVaughn does not agree with the teachings of this group, and by not joining she becomes more and more isolated from her best friends. There is also the fact that LaVaughn has signed up for an after-school grammar strengthening class to prepare her for college. She is seen as a snob for wanting to speak properly and for hanging around with the other kids who are taking this grammar class.

However, the biggest turmoil in LaVaughn's life surrounds the boy who moves into her building. Jody used to live there when he was young and was in LaVaughn's elementary school classes. After a classmate of theirs was killed, Jody's mother moved them somewhere where she felt their lives could be better. They couldn't afford to stay there, though, so they have moved back. LaVaughn falls immediately in love with this boy she used to know when they were little, and she dreams of being his girlfriend. But things aren't going well. He doesn't seem as interested in her as she is in him. Can she convince him that they would be perfect together?

I really liked this book. I like that LaVaughn's character is so true to herself and she and her mother have such a strong relationship. This book was sensitive and interesting, and showed the dynamics between friends from different groups. I also like the format of this book, the way it is written in blank verse. It makes for a quick read, and it gets some really powerful emotions across.

Haven't we heard this story before?.......2007-03-16

it seems that as long as reguritate the dominate social narrative of an oppressed/underpresented group the work is considered a "masterpiece" and "touching". Well this left me cold. How many times does this novel need to be written? there are many ways to create unforgettable characters and working the hell out of tired stereotypes is not one of them.

Also, read something by Julius Lester if you want to see this kind of thing done well.

True Believer.......2006-09-25

True Believer is about a 15 year old girl living with her mother in an apartment in the slum of a city. Her Name is la Vaughn, And La Vaughn Is a very Low Class Girl. She Dosnt Get New things All The Time. She can barely ever get what she wants.

La Vaughn is raised in a very bad neighborrhood were kids die of drugs and getting shot. It's all common in Her Neighborhood. Basically No one in La Vaughns neighborhood Makes it through Highschool. So La Vaugns Mother Is Willin g To do What ever it takes for her to get to college an get a good education.

An One Day La Vaughns mother comes home from work with a "friend" And La Vaughn Gets angry because she thinks her mother is betraying her dead father, By replacing him with a new man. And, La Vaughns friends are getting into some stuff that La Vaughn disagree's about.
And While All of this is happening, La Vaugns Child Hood Friend Comes Back And Turns her feelings for him about side down and all around. But the only Problem for La Vaughn is if Jody, The Boy Feels The Same...

I never thought life would be so hard........2006-09-22

Wow... True Beliver! The girl in this story Is a true believer.
In the book it talks about sex an and things that could happen an how to prevent them from actually happening.
The 15 year old girl La Vaughn. La vaughn has faced things that i never thought about facing.
She bele
ives in her self. And God. La Vaugn was a very up tight girl. She wanted to go to college an wanted to do many things. La Vaughn did not care about the things she didnt have. Unlike many others. La Vaugn an her mother lived in a dirty old apartment. In the Slum of a city. La vaughn was happy girl..

Then One Day La Vaughns mother brings a friend home..
Only the Friend.. Wasn't going to help very much...
An don't worry. it only gets worse from there...

O.k, but not as good as the first.......2006-05-11

LaVaughn is a 15 year old girl. Her mother insists that she make it to college. Not the easiest thing to do when you would be the first one to do it in your apartment complex. She feels that she is headed right on track even after the long babysitting event with Jolly. Until her best friend from when she was young moves back into the apartment building and thinks she has a crush on him. In fact she knows she has a crush on him she just hopes that he feels the same way. Of course having a boyfriend is not in her mother's plan for going to college so she keeps her thoughts to herself. She can't help but second guess his feelings for her when she catches him kissing someone behind a fish tank. Not just a nother person but a nother boy.

This is the second book of the Make Lemonade Trilogy and it is pretty good. LaVaughn kept me up all night thinking about what was going to happen between Jody and her. I am definitely ready for the third!

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It's hot, Eddie's drank all the lemoande, what will Maisy do

Maisy Makes Lemonade (Maisy)

Manufacturer: Candlewick
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0763617296
Release Date: 2002-04-01

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MMMMM. In MAISY MAKES LEMONADE, it’s a hot day, and Maisy is having a nice cold drink. Eddie is hot, too, but it takes a lot of lemonade to satisfy this thirsty friend. Not to worry - Maisy goes out to the garden and, with a boost from Eddie, picks some fresh lemons. Together they stir in some water and sugar, and there! A pitcher of refreshing lemonade. Now she just needs to go get some cups - but what is that slurping noise? Good thing they made enough for an elephant!

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It's hot, Eddie's drank all the lemoande, what will Maisy do.......2004-01-28

If you are the parent of a young child, you probably know who Maisy is. She's a mouse with a duck, a squirrel, an elephant, and a crocodile for friends. Why the crocodile isn't trying to eat the others is beyond me, but that's life in Maisy's world.

Both of my daughters love the Maisy books; there's something about their simple stories and colorful pictures that even appeals to adults. The books are short and easy to read. But, the stories are never obnoxiously simplistic, like so many other books for small children.

Maisy's enjoying a cool drink when Eddie decides to slurp it all up. What will Maisy and Eddie do? I guess I've read enough of these to my children that I'm developing favorites. This is one I always seem to enjoy reading to the kids and, as usual, they love it too.

How to Run a Pet Business, Set up a Lemonade Stand, Be a Homework Helper, and other ways to Make Money
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How to Run a Pet Business, Set up a Lemonade Stand, Be a Homework Helper, and other ways to Make Money

Manufacturer: Scholastic Inc
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0439579015

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A how to book for kids to set up their own money making business.

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If You Have a Lemon, Make Lemonade
Warren Hinckle
Manufacturer: W W Norton & Co Inc
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ASIN: 0393306364

Fiesta of Happiness: Make Lemonade Out of Lemons (Fiesta of Happiness)

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Fiesta of Happiness: Make Lemonade Out of Lemons (Fiesta of Happiness)
David Baird
Manufacturer: M Q Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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How to Make Lemonade When Life Hands Your Lemons (2 Cassettes)

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The Best Self-Help Tape

How to Make Lemonade When Life Hands Your Lemons (2 Cassettes)
Jack N. Singer Ph.D.
Manufacturer: Psychologically Speaking
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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ASIN: 0970069405

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Listeners will learn how to overcome all of the obstacles to their success. They will learn how to maximize their self-confidence and rejuvenate their fun, joy & happiness. They will learn the best secret to overcoming stress.

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The Best Self-Help Tape.......2001-05-10

I was amazed at how many ideas I learned about how to change my life and deal with my stresses. The relaxation tape (which is on the "Managing the Stresses in Your Life" cassette included) is amazing! I use it to calm myself after a rough day and even to help me fall asleep. The technique is so easy to learn, that I can dissolve away my stress at work by doing it at my desk for a few minutes. Traffic congestion used to be unbearable for me, but not any longer, because I can even use the technique while I'm behind the wheel!

One of the cassettes in the set is a live presentation by Dr. Singer to a business audience. His wisdom is applicable to every one, and he provides insight into the causes of each individual's stress and how to alleviate it. I found this to be extremely valuable information.

I have heard and read many self-help tapes and books. This is by far the most useful series I have found. I can't wait to listen to Dr. Singer's other tapes!

If You Have A Lemon Make Lemonade -
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ASIN: B000OMEMDA

Lemons Make Lemonade
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Lemons Make Lemonade
Sally Welsh
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ASIN: B000WZVOY4

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Melanoma Patient's Survival Guide

Lemons Really Do Make Lemonade *You Just Have to Add a Little Sugar

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Lemons Really Do Make Lemonade *You Just Have to Add a Little Sugar

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ASIN: B000EONWW0

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A Melanoma patient's survival guide. Sally Welsh shares her battles with Melanoma Cancer in hopes of helping others who share her disease.

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