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Sélection du Reader's Digest

More households are now homes to pets than ever before, which is perhaps not surprising, given the wide-ranging benefits that keeping a pet can bring to our daily lives. Scientific studies have revealed that pets can aid our mental well-being for example, lower our blood pressure and even help children to read. While the increasingly wide range of pets being kept today means that there is literally a pet for everyone, the aim of this guide is

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2) Sélection du Reader's Digest

Series

Publisher

Readers Digest Canada

Language

Français

Description

Junior Library Guild Selection

Avec 70 ans de publication au Canada, Reader's Digest Canada vise à éduquer, divertir et relier les auditoires à travers le pays. Sélection et Reader’s Digest sont les magazines les plus lus au Canada avec plus de 4,5 millions de lecteurs chaque mois.

3) Crazy Hair Day

Author

Saltzberg, Barney

Series

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Pub. Date

c2003

Language

English

Description

Stanley is excited about Crazy Hair Day at his school, until he discovers that he has gotten the date wrong.

4) For Better And For Worse

Author

Alexie, Sherman

Series

Selected Shorts

Publisher

Symphony Space, Inc

Language

English

Description

2009 Audies® Finalist for Best Audiobook Adaptation Category

"How could I look at my wife, the mother of my children, and feel only the need for revenge?" From Do You Know Where I Am? by Sherman Alexie

Moving stories about married couples' powerful and complicated loves

Sherman Alexie's Do You Know Where I Am?

read by Keir Dullea

A native couple's rocky college love affair lasts a lifetime

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Wife's Story

read

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5) Toy story

Series

Toy story

Publisher

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

Pub. Date

[2010]

Language

English

Description

An astonishing world where toys play while their owners are away. Woody is a pull-string cowboy doll and is the leader of the toys until the latest, greatest action figure, Buzz Lightyear, enters the picture. When the toy rivals are separated from their owner, they learn to put aside their differences and work as a team to get back home to the boy they love.

6) The selection

Author

Series

Selection novel volume 1
The Selection

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12

Language

English

Formats

Description

"Sixteen-year-old America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation of Illéa, which formed after the war that destroyed the United States. America is chosen to compete in the Selection--a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Illéa's prince--but all she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her"--

7) The Elite

Author

Series

Selection novel volume 2
The Selection

Pub. Date

2013

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11

Language

English

Formats

Description

"Sixteen-year-old America Singer is one of only six girls still competing in the Selection--but before she can fight to win Prince Maxon and the Illean crown, she must decide where her own heart truly lies"--

8) The Prince: A Novella

Author

Series

Selection

Publisher

HarperCollins

Pub. Date

2013

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

Description

Don't miss this captivating novella set in the world of the #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series!

Go behind the scenes of the competition with this story from the point of view of Prince Maxon.

Before America Singer was chosen to compete in the Selection, there was another girl in Prince Maxon's life . . . . In The Prince, follow Prince Maxon through the week leading up to the beginning of the Selection—and

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9) The one

Author

Adult Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Young Adult Book

Series

Selection novel volume 3
The Selection

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11

Language

English

Formats

Description

"As her Selection approaches its finish, America must decide where her heart truly lies--and Prince Maxon must pick one winner to wear the crown"--

10) The Queen

Author

Series

Selection

Publisher

HarperTeen

Pub. Date

2015

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3

Language

English

Description

Before America Singer's story began, another girl came to the palace to compete for the hand of a different prince... Don't miss this digital original novella set in the captivating world of Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series. This prequel story takes place before the events of The Selection and is told from the point of view of Prince Maxon's mother, Amberly. Discover a whole new Selection with this inside look at how Maxon's...

11) The Selection Stories: The Prince / The Guard

Author

Series

The Selection

Publisher

HarperTeen

Pub. Date

2014

Language

English

Description

Junior Library Guild Selection

Discover the untold stories of two fan favorite characters in these novellas set in the world of Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series

The Prince and The Guard offer captivating views into the hearts and minds of the two men fighting to win America Singer's love. The Selection Stories also features bonus content, including an extended ending to The Prince, a Q&A with Kiera Cass, family trees, playlists,

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12) Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature's Undead

Author

Johnson, Rebecca L

Series

Publisher

Lerner Publishing Group

Pub. Date

2014

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

Description

Are zombies real? As far as we know, dead people do not come back to life and start walking around, looking for trouble. But there are things that can take over the bodies and brains of innocent creatures, turning them into senseless slaves. Meet nature's zombie makers--including a fly-enslaving fungus, a suicide worm, and a cockroach-taming wasp--and their victims.

13) The Favorite

Author

Series

The Selection

Publisher

HarperTeen

Pub. Date

2015

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2

Language

English

Description

While America Singer's heart was torn between Aspen and Prince Maxon, her friend Marlee knew exactly what she wanted-and paid the price. Revisit the captivating world of Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series in this digital original novella. Told from Marlee's point of view, this all-new 64-page story returns to the fateful Halloween when Marlee and Carter were discovered and reveals how that night-and Prince Maxon-changed their...

14) Happily ever after

Author

The Selection
Selection novel

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6

Language

English

Formats

Description

Meet Prince Maxon before he fell in love with America, and a girl named Amberly before she became queen. See the Selection through the eyes of a guard who watched his first love drift away and a girl who fell for a boy who wasn't the prince. Features four novellas from the world of Kiera Cass's Selection series, two of which appear here in print for the first time. Additional content includes new scenes from The Selection, The Elite, and The One;...

15) The heir

Author

Series

Selection
Selection novel volume 4

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12

Language

English

Formats

Description

Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon's heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn't expect her Selection to be anything like her parents' fairy-tale love story ... but as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought.

16) The crown

Author

Series

The Selection
Selection novel volume 5

Pub. Date

2016

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9

Language

English

Formats

Description

Lannan literary selection

Twenty years have passed since America Singer and Prince Maxon fell in love, and their daughter is the first princess to hold a Selection of her own.

17) Night sky with exit wounds

Author

Vuong, Ocean

Series

Publisher

Copper Canyon Press

Pub. Date

2016

Language

English

Appears on list

Poetry Month

Formats

eBook, Kindle

Description