Lawrence David
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Book for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Peter Claus, the son of Santa, feels sorry for all the kids on the naughty list who will not get Christmas presents and tries to persuade his father that they deserve a second chance.
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Language
English
Description
What are you going to do for the rest of your life? For David Lawrence Jr., a brilliant newspaper editor and publisher with a distinguished, three-decade-long journalism career who retired in 1999 at the age of fifty-six, the answer in his words was to dedicate his life to a "newly energized purposefulness: that every child have a real chance to succeed." A lifelong champion of children, David Lawrence Jr. became a leading national advocate for children...
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Series
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English
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Jimmy Stone died of a broken heart. Literally.
"Four people sitting in a ring. Two men and two women. All of them dead." Thus begins a case that will take detective Stella Mooney from the fabulous flats of Notting Hill to the decidedly tougher side of town. It's no wonder Stella feels like she's going round in circles.
Her personal life is also going awry. Her live-in-lover has yet to be told her has serious competition in the form of sexy newsman...
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Language
English
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Prudence McCoy is a warm and well-liked celebrity who dispenses a stream of down-to-earth advice on her popular television show. After filming wraps on her latest series her boss insists that she takes a holiday and Pru is bundled off to Wyoming for some well-earned rest. But she has barely unpacked before the son of an American Indian woman she has befriended is found dead.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Former Vice President Al Gore explains the facts of global warming, presents arguments that the dangers of global warning have reached the level of crisis, and addresses the efforts of certain interests to discredit the anti-global warming cause. Between lecture segments, Gore discusses his personal commitment to the environment, sharing anecdotes from his experiences.