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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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A first book by the prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist shares personal essays that chronicle his childhood, adolescence and college years as a Black queer youth, exploring subjects ranging from gender identity and toxic masculinity to structural marginalization and Black joy.
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and...
2) Why we swim
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Bonnie Tsui looks at our love affair with the water, from evolution to mythology, from survival and well-being, from community swim clubs to competitive races, and she goes around the world to explore its significance in many cultures"--
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Toy Sooner has dealt with enough rough waves in her troubled past. It's only been through the enduring love of a close-knit group of women on this tiny island that she's finally started to find her footing. But as new challenges in her career arise for this young single mother, the choices and demons of her past will catch up to her. Soon Toy will learn that, like the steadfast sea turtles she cares for, a mother must find the strength within herself...
4) The choice
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English
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"Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life-- boating, swimming, and regular barbecues with his good-natured buddies-- he holds the vague conviction that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is, until Gabby Holland moves in next door. Despite his attempts to be neighborly, the appealing redhead seems...
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Troy Chance novels volume 1
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English
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A mysterious and suspenseful story that will move and disturb you to the very end.
When she sees what looks like a child tumbling from a ferry into frigid Lake Champlain, Troy Chance dives in without thinking. When she gets the child to shore she discovers that his name is Paul, he speaks only French—and no one is looking for him.
Her determination to protect Paul pulls Troy from her quiet life as a writer in a small...
When she sees what looks like a child tumbling from a ferry into frigid Lake Champlain, Troy Chance dives in without thinking. When she gets the child to shore she discovers that his name is Paul, he speaks only French—and no one is looking for him.
Her determination to protect Paul pulls Troy from her quiet life as a writer in a small...
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“Swim Home to the Vanished is a lush and fantastic journey through strange lands and minds from an incandescent new voice full of my kind of melancholic brilliance and unromantic magic.”٬٢٠١٤؛Tommy Orange, author of There, There After the death of his brother, a grief-stricken young man seeks refuge and oblivion in a secluded fishing village dominated by a family of brujas in this haunting debut novel, inspired, in part, by the ramifications...
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English
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It all started the previous summer. Marc, his wife, and their two beautiful teenage daughters agreed to spend a week at the Meier's extravagant summer home on the Mediterranean. Joined by Ralph and his striking wife Judith, her mother, and film director Stanley Forbes and his much younger girlfriend, the large group settles in for days of sunshine, wine tasting, and trips to the beach. But when a violent incident disrupts the idyll, darker motivations...
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Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When two dogs, Whistle and Spot, play at racing and jumping, sometimes one wins and sometimes the other one does, but until Spot learns to swim, Whistle always beats him across the pond.
11) I can swim!
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Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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George becomes increasingly confident as his father teachers him to swim in a pool.
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Marlow Murder Club volume 1
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English
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"Judith Potts is seventy-seven years old and blissfully happy. She lives on her own in a faded mansion just outside Marlow, there's no man in her life to tell her what to do or how much whisky to drink, and to keep herself busy she sets crosswords for The Times newspaper. One evening, while out swimming in the Thames, Judith witnesses a brutal murder. The local police don't believe her story, so she decides to investigate for herself, and is soon...
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Laurel Gray Hawthorne's life seems neatly on track--a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in suburban Victorianna--until everything she holds dear is suddenly thrown into question the night she is visited by the ghost of a her 13-year old neighbor Molly Dufresne.
17) Hattie Hippo
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Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Meet Hattie, an adorable little hippo who loves to dance, swim, play hide-and-seek, and host tea parties for her friends!"--Jacket.
18) Swimming science
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Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Company
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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See how swimmers use new technologies to achieve faster times. There are high-tech body suits to overcome drag as swimmers glide through the water, and energy gels and sports drinks help fuel swimmers' bodies.
19) Qué puede nadar?
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Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
An introduction to the principles of swimming describing the animals, insects, people, and machines that can or cannot swim.
20) Moment of truth
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"At sixteen, Hadley Moore knows exactly who she isâa swimmer who will earn a scholarship to college. Totally worth all the hard work, even if her aching shoulders donât agree. So when a guy dressed as Hollywoodâs latest action hero, Heath Hall, crashes her swim meet, she isnât amused. Instead, sheâs determined to make sure he doesnât bother her again. Only sheâs not sure exactly who he is. The swim meet isnât the first event the imposter has...
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