Karen's Chicken Pox (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #114)


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From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Stay away, spots! Halloween is coming! There will be a party at school. and Karen, Hannie, and Nancy have planned the best costume ever. Then Karen’s little sister gets the chicken pox. It is very contagious. Karen does not want to catch chicken pox. If she does, it will ruin Halloween. And that would be really scary!




Karen's Book (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #100)


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From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Write on!Everybody in the big house is busy. And Karen is b-o-r-e-d. She tries to read a book. But then she has a better idea! She will write her own book! It will be about her life. She does not remember everything about being little. So she talks with Mommy and Daddy. They tell Karen all the funny things she did. Can Karen write a whole book?




Karen's Big Move (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #96)


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From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Good-bye, Stoneybrook!Karen is moving to Chicago for six months, with Mommy, Andrew, and Seth. Karen wants to be with her little-house family. But leaving her big-house family will be hard. And Karen will miss her friends and her school a lot too. She will try her best to like Chicago. But what if she misses Stoneybrook too much?




Karen's Nanny (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #105)


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From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Karen’s family needs a special helper.Mommy is starting a new job. She is looking for someone to take care of Karen and Andrew when she is not home. Karen and Andrew will help her. But finding a nanny is hard work. Lots of people come to try out. The first nanny is too nice. The second one is too strict. Will the third one be just right?




Karen's Swim Meet (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #110)


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From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Swimmers, take your marks!Karen has joined the swim team! She loves dreaming about winning medals and learning to swim fast. But mostly she likes to have fun with her swim team friends. Then the coach starts acting mean. He says the team is not working hard enough. Can Karen find a way to be a winner and have fun too?




Karen's Big Sister (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #69)


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From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Sister troubleKaren loves her stepsister Kristy. Then Daddy gives Kristy a special pin. Karen is jealous. She wants the pin. But Kristy will not let Karen even borrow it. Karen borrows the pin anyway. Then she loses it in the snow. Uh-oh. Now what is Karen going to do?




Popular Series Fiction for K–6 Readers


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Indexes popular fiction series for K-6 readers with groupings based on thematics, consistant setting, or consistant characters. Annotated entries are arranged alphabetically by series name and include author, publisher, date, grade level, genre, and a list of individual titles in the series. Volume is indexed by author, title, and subject/genre and includes appendixes suggesting books for boys, girls, and reluctant/ESL readers.




Karen's Wedding (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #39)


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From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Here Comes the Bride!Karen’s favorite teacher is getting married and Karen is going to be the flower girl! At least Ms. Colman said that Karen would be. But that was before Ms. Coleman’s niece showed up. Will Karen still get to walk down the aisle? Or is she going to come down with a case of the wedding bell blues?




Raising Kanye


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The mother of rap superstar Kanye West shares her experiences on being a single mother raising a celebrity. As the mother of hip-hop superstar Kanye West, Donda West has watched her son grow from a brilliant baby boy with all the intimations of fame and fortune to one of the hottest rappers on the music scene. And she has every right to be proud: she raised her son with strong moral values, teaching him right from wrong and helping him become the man he is today. In Raising Kanye, Donda not only pays homage to her famous son but reflects on all the things she learned about being his mother along the way. Featuring never-before-seen photos and compelling personal anecdotes, Donda's powerful and inspiring memoir reveals everything from the difficulties she faced as a single mother in the African American community to her later experiences as Kanye's manager as he rose to superstardom. Speaking frankly about her son's reputation as a "Mama's Boy," and his memorable public outbursts about gay rights and President George W. Bush, Donda supports her son without exception, and here she shares the invaluable wisdom she has taken away from each experience—passion, tolerance, patience, and above all, always telling the truth. Ultimately, she not only expresses what her famously talented son has meant to her but what he has meant to music and an entire generation.




The Art of Being Human


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Anthropology is the study of all humans in all times in all places. But it is so much more than that. "Anthropology requires strength, valor, and courage," Nancy Scheper-Hughes noted. "Pierre Bourdieu called anthropology a combat sport, an extreme sport as well as a tough and rigorous discipline. ... It teaches students not to be afraid of getting one's hands dirty, to get down in the dirt, and to commit yourself, body and mind. Susan Sontag called anthropology a "heroic" profession." What is the payoff for this heroic journey? You will find ideas that can carry you across rivers of doubt and over mountains of fear to find the the light and life of places forgotten. Real anthropology cannot be contained in a book. You have to go out and feel the world's jagged edges, wipe its dust from your brow, and at times, leave your blood in its soil. In this unique book, Dr. Michael Wesch shares many of his own adventures of being an anthropologist and what the science of human beings can tell us about the art of being human. This special first draft edition is a loose framework for more and more complete future chapters and writings. It serves as a companion to anth101.com, a free and open resource for instructors of cultural anthropology. This 2018 text is a revision of the "first draft edition" from 2017 and includes 7 new chapters.