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Author
Publisher
Nolo
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This guide is for business owners, managers, and HR professionals who need to create (or update) a legal and plain-English employee handbook. It provides legal information, practical suggestions, and best practices on: wages, hours, and tip pools; at-will employment; time off; discrimination and harassment; complaints and investigations; health and safety; drugs and alcohol; workplace privacy; and email and social media"--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A true story and simple guide to teaching a dog to talk from a speech-language pathologist who has taught her dog to communicate using simple paw-sized buttons associated with different words.
When speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger first came home with her puppy, Stella, it didn't take long for her to start drawing connections between her job and her new pet. During the day, she worked with toddlers with significant delays in language...
Author
Language
English
Description
An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery.
"As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle...
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
120 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When they take their dog, Watch, for obedience training, the Alden children discover that some of the dogs in the class have vanished and decide to try to solve the mystery of their disappearance.
10) Pig the rebel
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
[First American edition].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
It is Pig the Pug versus obedience school in this rhyming story of a dog's rebellion and downfall.
11) True Blue
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
297 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1960s California, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt has trouble with True Blue, the newest horse on her family's ranch, a beautiful dappled gray who is so often spooked, Abby wonders if he is haunted by the ghost of his deceased former owner.
12) Slugfest
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Forced to take Physical Education Equivalency, aka "Slugfest," in summer school so he can maintain his star spot on the JV football team, Yash recruits his fellow PE rejects to train with him and pass this course, an endeavor that turns into a summer he'll never forget"--
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography of Dr. William Key, a former slave and self-trained veterinarian who taught his horse, Jim, to read and write and who together with Jim became one of the most famous traveling performance acts around the turn of the twentieth century. Includes afterword and author's sources"--