Baby Flo


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Pint-sized dynamo 'Baby Florence' Mills was singing and dancing just about as soon as she could talk and walk. Flo's mama and daddy knew they had a budding entertainer in the family, so they entered Florence in a talent contest. Baby Flo went on to become an international superstar during the Harlem Renaissance - but first she had to overcome a case of stage fright and discover that winning wasn't everything.




What Flo Eats


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What Flo Eats is a healthy baby weaning book for babies and beyond. In this book, I will show you when to wean, how to introduce your baby to solids, how to make your baby eat healthy with 50 yummy nutritious recipes that are very easy to follow. I have also included a 4-week baby meal planner that will show you when to feed and the right portions to start your baby with. You will enjoy feeding your baby yummy nutritious meals, giving them a healthy start to the future. This guide is for you if you are nursing a child and about to make that cross from the six-month-intensive-breastfeeding threshold to eating solids. This is for you if your child is a fussy eater. It is important to ensure that children get all the nutrients that they need from eating balanced meals. In fact, there is no better time than now because this is when they need it for all the healthy growth and development. This book is for you if you need creative healthy food ideas to transform your child's menu. Food can be yummy, delicious and healthy at the same time. Are you ready to go with the flow as Flo and I on this healthy feeding road? If you are, we are.




Ice


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Disillusioned by the hypocrisy of the adults in his life, a young man severed ties with his family and pursued a lifelong journey on a twisted path of selfishness and depravity. In the end, totally helpless and abandoned by his own children, he died with only his paid caregivers at his bedside.




Bob and Flo


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It's Flo's first day of preschool. She has her lunch in a bucket and a new bow--but soon her bucket disappears! Does her classmate Bob have anything to do with the bucket mystery? How two irresistible little penguins find both Flo's bucket and a new friendship makes for a preschool charmer. Bob and Flo is sure to ease any back-to-school jitters.




Figgs & Phantoms


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From the Newbery Award-winning author of THE WESTING GAME, more clever riddles and wordplay, clues to be found, and mysteries to be solved! A Newbery Honor book The Amazing Dancing Figgs! While Mona hates all the attention her eccentric relatives bring to her in town, there is one Figg family member she likes: her Uncle Florence, the book dealer. But Uncle Florence keeps hinting that he's going to find his way to Capri, the Figg family heaven. And that means leaving Mona behind. Can Mona find Capri before it's too late, or will she learn that things are seldom what they seem when books are involved?




Journal


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Undocumented Citizen


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Nineteen-year-old Naomi Abram is lost at sea with her heart-throb, a Bible, and a notebook, and crash-lands on a beach, in the dark, in Puerto Rico. She boards the wrong plane for home, and unwittingly enters the U.S.A., where she lives an undocumented, stagnant lifestyle. Naomi is forced to lie about where she's from, in order to maintain employment; but her conscience keeps her moral values tame. She experiences horror, when her landlady dies; grief and guilt, when her brother dies; fright and fear, when confronted by law enforcement; and joy, when she sneaks out of the Country and visits her family. While in Antigua, she learns that a new culture, Rastafarianism, is sweeping the island. After waiting and hoping for more than a decade, Naomi's presence in the U.S.A. is finally documented.




Pix and Me


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'There were soldiers on the verandah??? They were pointing bayonets at my mother and father??? I was glued to the spot.. My heart was beating furiously???'Run, Andy, run!' I heard Dad's desperate yell???' The year is 1942. War has spread across the world, and the Japanese have invaded Singapore, where Andy has been living an idyllic life with his botanist parents, on the edge of the jungle. But now the military police have taken his parents away for questioning and Andy has fled deep into that jungle - alone for the first time iin his life. But not quite alone. With him is Pix, his best friend, a monkey. As Andy battles to overcome his terror and begins the quest for food and shelter, another fugitive arrives - Emmiline, the most demanding brat he has ever met.




Baby Flo


Book Description

Baby Flo is the dazzling illustrated biography of Baby Florence Mills, a world famous child entertainer of the Harlem Renaissance. Pint-sized dynamo Baby Florence' Mills was singing and dancing just about as soon as she could talk and walk. She went on to become an international superstar during the 1920s - but first she had to overcome a case of stage fright and discover that winning isn't everything. Baby Flo is the spirited story of a plucky young girl learning to chase her dreams with confidence. Includes beautiful illustrations and photographs.'




Lake Hollywood


Book Description

THE STORY: The first act finds us on the shore of Scroon Lake in New Hampshire in August 1940. Agnes and Andrew, a soap salesman, arrive at Agnes' home which she shares with her sister, Flo. Flo would like nothing better than to have the home all f