Cultivating Strong Girls: Library Programming That Builds Self-Esteem and Challenges Inequality gives youth services librarians guidance on how to offer programming that will support the engagement, growth, and achievement of girls. It presents complete, low-cost program instructions and recommended resources for librarians who want to offer relevant and dynamic programming for girls, suggests extension activities, including peer mentoring and community...

Madigan Purdy is stuck in her home town library. When tens of thousands of owls descend on the building, rending and tearing at anyone foolish enough to step outside, Mad is tasked with keeping her students safe, and distracted, while they seek a solution to their dilemma. Perhaps they’ll find the inspiration they seek in her favorite childhood book, The Silent Queen…With food and fresh water in low supply, the denizens of the library will have...

Join Grover as he learns lots of new words in Hebrew and is welcomed by the Rechov Sumsum family. Come along and sing the Aleph-Bet song and find out what Grover's favorite Hebrew word is.

"...Si lo que deseas es mejorar tu inglés y aprender bien inglés para siempre, Inglés para conversar es el curso que estabas buscando. Diseñado para hablantes de español, este curso presenta los contenidos con ejemplos de la vida real, permitiendo una rápida asimilación de los significados y el uso adecuado de las expresiones, vocabulario y frases verbales..."--Container.

Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman with her life's purpose, to her very pleasant surprise....