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Shonen note volume 6
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Vladimir's voice has begun to change, and he is losing the ability to sing in the soprano style he so loves. Anatoly takes him to Kawami in the hopes that Yutaka can help him. Meanwhile, the residents of Kawami are troubled to find their city has approved the construction of an industrial waste disposal facility...
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Shonen note volume 6
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Now that Yutaka has officially decided to join the city opera, he's cast in a leading role in the ghost story The Turn of the Screw. Meanwhile, school choir president Betsuyaku struggles to prove that he and his choir are capable of winning the gold prize in the NHK All-School Choir Competition. But can he bring the choir together to achieve greatness, or will he alienate all of its members?
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Shonen note volume 5
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Yutaka Aoi is sweet, sensitive, and loves singing...so much so that he can't help but be brought to tears whenever he listens to beautiful music. He also has a talent few boys have: he can sing soprano. So when Yukata overhears his middle school's choir group perform, he can't resist joining in. Inspired by the angelic sound of Yukata's voice, the choir eagerly accepts him into their ranks. But when Yukata's voice begins to change as he enters puberty,...
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Shonen note volume 4
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The Kawami Higashi Middle School choir has won the district competition and is moving on to regionals, but the choir just isn't the same without Yutaka's soprano voice. In her eagerness to bring Yutaka back, Mariko must learn to speak for herself. Will she find a way to remind Yutaka of the joy of singing?
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Shonen note volume 3
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Russian boy soprano Vladimir Popov is touring Japan when he learns about Yutaka's amazing talent. He insists on meeting this new rival and hearing him sing, but when he watches a rehearsal of The Turn of the Screw, he doesn't mince words in telling Yutaka how he feels about the performance... Will his encounter with Vladimir be a blow to Yutaka's confidence, or will it give him the strength to continue to press onward, in both the opera and school...
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Jessica Darling's It list volume 3
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"Smarties and skaters unite, collecting signatures on a petition to bring back the school's annual dance. Meanwhile, Jessica faces the outcome of the mortifying-but-true Top Secret Pineville Junior High Crushability Test. Will the dramarama of seventh grade be Jessica's downfall? Not if she can help it"--Provided by publisher.
28) Monday's Girls
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Monday's Girls explores the conflict between modern individualism and traditional communities in today's Africa through the eyes of two young Waikiriki women from the Niger delta. Although both come from leading families in the same large island town, Florence looks at the iria women's initiation ceremony as an honor, while Azikiwe, who has lived in the city for ten years, sees it as an indignity. Ngozi Onwurah, director of such feminist classics...
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What do you want to know about sex? Information about sex is everywhere. But what you learn from TV, movies, the internet, and friends is not always a healthy or accurate view of sexuality. Now revised and updated with current facts, Joanna Cole's Asking About Sex & Growing Up is the perfect book to provide answers to questions about sex. Writing especially for preteens, the author uses a question-and-answer format to offer straightforward information...
33) The moon within
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Eleven-year-old (nearly twelve) Celi Rivera, who is a mix of Black-Puerto Rican-Mexican Indian is uncomfortable about her approaching period, and the changes that are happening to her body; she is horrified that her mother wants to hold a traditional public moon ceremony to celebrate the occasion--until she finds out that her best friend Magda is contemplating an even more profound change of life.
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A flip book for boys and girls between the ages of 9 and 12. Questions asked by girls appear on one half of the book; flip it over and questions boys ask are on the other half. Contains honest, informative, and reassuring answers to questions pre-adolescents have about puberty, friends, feelings, sex, pimples, babies, body hair, menstruation, bras, and much more.
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