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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Noisy Nora is learning to play the violin, but her family isn't sure they can survive it! The lovable heroine of Noisy Nora returns in a new book that will charm parents and children alike. Nora is determined to play the violin, but her parents, sister Kate, and brother Jack are appalled by the terrible sounds that emerge during her practice sessions. Scrape and shriek, screech and squeak--everybody holds their ears. But when a special evening comes,...
23) The red hat
Author
Publisher
Disney * Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Once upon a time, high atop the world, there lived a boy named Billy Hightower and the wind. When a new neighbor appears--a girl in a red hat--Billy Hightower can hardly wait to meet her and introduce himself. But the wind has other ideas"--
24) Baker makers
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A young boy is determined to create the perfect cake, but when his baking doesn't go quite as planned, he learns to embrace the unexpected.
25) A new harvest
Author
Publisher
Cuento de Luz
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Rodrigo has lost his family home due to a devastating tornado. He almost gives up. But then, he remembers his father's words of encouragement and finds the strength to build a new life. He slowly developed the confidence to build a new life and bring hope to lonesome, vulnerable and homeless people.
Author
Series
Gym shorts volume 3
Publisher
Roaring Brook
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Rita tries to improve her times and flip turns as she struggles to decide whether to remain the best swimmer on the Dolphins team or the worst on the Sharks team, where she could be with her friends.
28) Mrs. Mooley
Author
Publisher
Golden Books Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2002, ©1973.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a picture in the nursery rhyme book left on the barn floor, Mrs. Mooley, the cow, is determined to jump over the moon, despite the ridicule of the other barnyard animals.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Magazine spreads and Hollywood hits showcase stars with perfect skin, perfect faces, perfect hair, perfect lives, perfect... everything. But what if the absence of scars is really a lie? And what if, underneath all that perfection, something far more powerful and authentic is waiting to be seen, shown, and heard? In Braver Than I Thought, kids meet the true stories of remarkable people whose scars have been a part of their journey, who have helped...
Series
Publisher
Sony Wonder
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Larry is a wrestler who somehow manages never to finish what he starts. Eventually his ability to take anything seriously lands him in the ring with Apollo Gourd. Will Larry hang in there to complete the match? How does a cucumber look in wrestling gear anyway? Find out in this lesson in perseverance where kids will learn that whenever you finish what you start, you come out a winner!
31) A tuba Christmas
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When Ava decides to learn to play the tuba, it isn't as easy as she thought it would be. But with the encouragement of her music teacher, Ava finds a place for her and her tuba in a special holiday celebration"--
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Life is a rough ride for awkward, friendless, 15-year-old Moondance. But when a Pinto pony named Checkers leaps into her life, Moondance pursues a dream she never knew she had. Convinced that Checkers has champion potential, she enters him in the Bow Valley Classic, and in the process learns only perseverance lands you in the winner's circle. Inspired by a true story.
Author
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Outlines a twelve-week program for overcoming a creative block or otherwise working through dry periods in an artist's life, in a guide that covers such topics as staying focused, starting new projects, and finding inspiration.
Series
Publisher
Sandstar Family Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Charming adaptation of the Edith Nesbit novel about 5 motherless children in England during the turn of the century trying to help their financially strapped father-inventor who is on the verge of a breakthrough in refrigeration. Initially it appears that everything they try turns into a catastrophe but all their good intentions ultimately pay off and dovetail together.
37) Why not you?
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Rhyming text shows the importance of believing in oneself and perseverence to achieve any goals.
38) Catkwondo
Author
Publisher
Capstone Editions
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
As a new student of Taekwondo, Kitten is eager to break a board but Master Cat and her fellow students help her learn to focus, practice, and persevere.
39) We are family
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Jayden and his teammates find out there's not going to be a Hoop Group this year--and maybe ever again--they have to learn to lean on each other if they want to save their basketball season"--
40) Cowboy Roy
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Roy, a young cowboy, tries hard to learn how to ride his bike without the training wheels.
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