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2) Lyddie
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English
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Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840's.
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Pub. Date
[2014?]
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Español
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A través del camino de la autodependencia nos haremos responsables de nuestra propia vida. Será nuestra responsabilidad apartarnos de lo que nos daña, hacernos cargo de lo que nos pasa y querernos tanto como para privilegiarnos. Y entonces, aparecerá algo que viene con la autonomía y que es la otra cara de la libertad: el coraje.
Tendremos el coraje de actuar como nuestra conciencia nos dicta y de pagar el precio, y seremos libres aunque a otros...
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English
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This manifesto focuses on the critical school years when parents must allow their children to experience the disappointment and frustration that occur from life's inevitable problems so that they can grow up to be successful, resilient, and self-reliant adults. Modern parenting is defined by an unprecedented level of overprotectiveness: parents who rush to school at the whim of a phone call to deliver forgotten assignments, who challenge teachers...
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English
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America's youth are in crisis. Raised by well-meaning but overprotective parents and coddled by well-meaning but misbegotten government programs, they are ill-equipped to survive in our highly-competitive global economy. Many of the coming-of-age rituals that have defined the American experience since the Founding -- learning the value of working with your hands, leaving home to start a family, becoming economically self-reliant -- are being delayed...
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Fire and thorns trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
Description
"Hero. Foreigner. Queen. Elisa, at the age of seventeen, is all three. And all three draw enemies. Faced with assassins, court politics, and the threat of civil war, Elisa despairs of being the ruler her people need. Her only hope is the Godstone. She must master its power once and for all. She finds clues hidden in a long forgotten--and forbidden--scripture. Accompanied by a one-eyed warrior, an enemy defector, and the man she is falling in love...
14) The life I'm in
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Series
The skin I'm in novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Charlese Jones, with her raw, blistering voice speaks the truths many girls face, offering insight to some of the causes and conditions that make a bully. Turned out of the only home she has known, Char boards a bus to nowhere where she is lured into the dangerous web of human trafficking.
16) Salvage
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Series
Salvage volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"Ava, a teenage girl living aboard the male-dominated, conservative deep space merchant ship Parastrata, faces betrayal, banishment, and death. Taking her fate into her own hands, she flees to the Gyre, a floating continent of garbage and scrap in the Pacific Ocean. How will she build a future on an Earth ravaged by climate change?"--
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Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
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Español
Description
No pienso que haya un único camino hacia la felicidad. Y si lo hubiera, yo no lo conozco. Y si lo conociera, no creo que pudiera describirse en un libro.
Sin embargo, la felicidad es un tema tan profundo y tan necesitado de estudio como lo son la dificultad de comunicación, el amor o la muerte.
Porque estamos hechos para buscar la felicidad.
Porque los sentimientos de amor, afecto, intimidad y solidaridad coexisten casi siempre con mayores niveles...
18) Understood Betsy
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Pub. Date
1946
Language
English
Description
The importance of a healthy environment and sound psychology is effectively revealed through the story of how a nervous, overprotected young girl becomes a stable, self-reliant person after she is suddenly transplanted to the simple life on a Vermont farm.
19) Lost Voices
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Series
Lost voices trilogy volume 1
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Luce has had a tough life, but she reaches the depths of despair when she is assaulted and left on the cliffs outside of a grim, gray Alaskan fishing village. She expects to die when she tumbles into the icy waves below, but instead undergoes an astonishing transformation and becomes a mermaid. A tribe of mermaids finds Luce and welcomes her in—all of them, like her, lost girls who surrendered their humanity in the darkest
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"When Sara Zaske moved from Oregon to Berlin with her husband and toddler, she knew the transition would be challenging, especially when she became pregnant with her second child. She was surprised to discover that German parents give their children a great deal of freedom--much more than Americans. In Berlin, kids walk to school by themselves, ride the subway alone, cut food with sharp knives, and even play with fire. German parents did not share...
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