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Author
Publisher
Putnam Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Hardly anyone noticed young Sally McCabe. She was the smallest girl in the smallest grade. But Sally notices everything -- from the twenty-seven keys on the janitor's ring to the bullying happening on the playground. One day, Sally has had enough and decides to make herself heard. And when she takes a chance and stands up to the bullies, she finds that one small girl can make a big difference.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014
Description
"Rock breaks scissors is based on a simple principle: people are unable to act randomly. Instead they display unconscious patterns that the savvy person can outguess. The principle applies to friends playing rock, paper, scissors for a bar tab as well as to the crowds that create markets for homes and stocks. With a gift for distilling psychology and behavioral economics into accessible advice, Poundstone proves that outguessing is easy, fun, and...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"An instruction manual for life, love, and relationships by a brilliant young scientist whose Asperger's syndrome allows her--and us--to see ourselves in a different way...and to be better at being human Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her. Desperate for a solution, she asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans that she could consult. With no blueprint...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Explores "how the algorithms used by computers can also untangle very human questions. They explain how to have better hunches and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of memory, [this book] transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living"--Amazon.com....
18) Worms!
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2013
Description
In these three tales Bertie turns a pink birthday party into a mess, faces and fails the challenge of being polite for an entire day (fortunately), and mistakes his mother's flower arrangement for garbage.
Author
Series
Ivy and Bean volume 5
Formats
Description
Best friends Ivy and Bean learn that being very good, or very bad, can be a real challenge when they set out to become like a man Ivy heard about who was so pure of heart that birds and animals followed him.
20) Places to be
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"We have so many places to be! Places to be loud and lovely and scared and jubilant. With an elegant simplicity, this picture book celebrates all our wide-ranging emotionsand the adventures that await us each day." --
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