Early Bird

Early Bird
Author: Rodney Rothman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2006-12-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1416537031

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Everyone says they would like to retire early, but Rodney Rothman actually did it—forty years early. Burnt out, he decides at the age of twenty-eight to get an early start on his golden years. He travels to Boca Raton, Florida, where he moves in with an elderly piano teacher at Century Village, a retirement community that is home to thousands of senior citizens. Early Bird is an irreverent, hilarious, and ultimately warmhearted account of Rodney's journey deep into the heart of retirement. Rodney struggles for acceptance from the senior citizens he shares a swimming pool with and battles with cranky octogenarians who want him off their turf. Before long he observes, “I don't think Tuesdays with Morrie would have been quite so uplifting if that guy had to spend more than one day a week with Morrie.” In the spirit of retirement, Rodney fashions a busy schedule of suntanning, shuffleboard, and gambling cruises. As the months pass, his neighbors seem to forget that he is fifty years younger than they are. He finds himself the potential romantic interest of an aging femme fatale. He joins a senior softball club and is disturbed to learn that he is the worst player on the team. Early Bird is a funny, insightful, and moving look at what happens to us when we retire, viewed from a remarkably premature perspective. Any reader who plans on becoming an old person will enjoy joining Rodney on his strange journey, as he reconsiders his notions of romance, family, friendship, and ultimately, whether he's ever going back to work.

Early Bird

Early Bird
Author: Toni Yuly
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2014-01-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250043271

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Early bird wakes up and begins a search for breakfast.

Early Bird: Animals, Age 4 - 5 Workbook

Early Bird: Animals, Age 4 - 5 Workbook
Author: Evan-Moor Corporation
Publisher: Early Birds
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781629383392

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Foster a love of reading and help your child get ready for kindergarten with this engaging full-color workbook! Your child will enjoy the illustrated stories and activities, which are related to interesting animals and their habitats: the savanna, forest, and desert. You will appreciate the engaging language, math, and alphabet card activities that teach basic reading and math readiness skills. Early Bird: Animals includes: Three colorful storybooks: Animals of the Savanna, Animals of the Forest, and Animals of the Desert. Your child can read the story aloud or listen to you read the story to him or her. The interesting topics and illustrations motivate children to read. Fun activities that provide age-appropriate practice of language, math, and fine motor skills. After each story, the activity pages help your child show what he or she learned and practice fundamental skills. Sample skills include: Descriptive and comparative language; rhyming; color words Counting to 20; geometric shapes; graphing Rhymes and chants to help your child learn new vocabulary Theme-based alphabet cards with games. The flashcards can be cut and sorted to play fun matching games with your child. Hands-on activities further help your child learn letters and their sounds. Answer key About Evan-Moor A leader in PreK-8 educational publishing, Evan-Moor has been a trusted partner of teachers and parents for over 40 years. Our mission is helping children learn, and we do this by creating resources that motivate children to learn important skills and concepts across the curriculum while also inspiring a love of learning.

The Group

The Group
Author: Mary McCarthy
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2013-08-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1480438235

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This smash bestseller about privileged Vassar classmates shocked America in the sixties and remains “juicy . . . witty . . . brilliant” (Cosmopolitan). At Vassar, they were known as “the group”—eight young women of privilege, the closest of friends, an eclectic mix of vibrant personalities. A week after graduation in 1933, they all gather for the wedding of Kay Strong, one of their own, before going their separate ways in the world. In the years that follow, they will each know accomplishment and loss in equal measure, pursuing careers and marriage, experiencing the joys and traumas of sexual awakening and motherhood, all while suffering through betrayals, infidelities, and sometimes madness. Some of them will drift apart. Some will play important roles in the personal dramas of others. But it is tragedy that will ultimately unite the group once again. A novel that stunned the world when it was first published in 1963, Mary McCarthy’s The Group found acclaim, controversy, and a place atop the New York Times bestseller list for nearly two years for its frank and controversial exploration of women’s issues, social concerns, and sexuality. A blistering satire of the mores of an emergent generation of women, The Group is McCarthy’s enduring masterpiece, still as relevant, powerful, and wonderfully entertaining fifty years on. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary McCarthy including rare images from the author’s estate.

The Pop Star Puffin

The Pop Star Puffin
Author: Jill Atkins
Publisher: Lerner Publications ™
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2021-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1728437717

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This tale of a singing puffin and all of his quacking, wailing, tweeting bird friends will have emergent readers giggling until the final page. Keep kids engaged after the story with a reading comprehension quiz.

Mountain Gorillas

Mountain Gorillas
Author: Karen Kane
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780822530404

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Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle of mountain gorillas.

Sugar Gliders

Sugar Gliders
Author: Elizabeth O'Sullivan
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2008-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0761346422

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In this Early Bird title, readers learn about the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of the sugar glider.

Fireflies

Fireflies
Author: Sally M. Walker
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Fireflies
ISBN: 9780822500254

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With full-color, breathtaking photos and easy-to-read texts, each book in this series describes the life cycle of a plant or animal. Including a special note for adults to help reading be an interactive experience, these titles are especially useful for preschools, reading hours, Chapter One programs, primary classrooms, and upper-elementary reluctant readers. Supports the national science education standards Unifying Concepts and Processes: Systems, Order, and Organization; Unifying Concepts and Processes: Constancy, Change, and Measurement; Unifying Concepts and Processes: Form and Function; Science as Inquiry; and Life Science as outlined by the National Academics of Science and endorsed by the National Science Teachers Association.

Early Bird

Early Bird
Author: Maya Peterson
Publisher: Compounding Snowballs
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2017-11-19
Genre: Finance, Personal
ISBN: 9781973235439

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"Maya Peterson has written a book that shows all young people that the time to invest is now, and the amount to invest is anything you can afford. You can begin with as little as $100, just as she did, because the mere act of starting early will help to ensure your success. Time is your best friend, and you have a lot of it. Investing your savings in the stocks of growing companies that you know and love is the best way to grow real wealth, and by starting early, you could see financial freedom by a young age. Maya covers why you shouldn't be afraid, why you should start now, and the behaviors you need to invest successfully. This priceless advice will change the lives of those who listen to it and get started early. So seize your chance now! It won't come again at this young age. " -Jeff Fischer, Advisor, Motley Fool Pro Investing takes time, so why are the people with the most time not investing? That needs to change. This is the issue Early Bird is here to solve. This book contains interviews with a large range of seasoned investors that consists of David Gardner, LouAnn Lofton, Alyce Lomax, Todd Wenning, David Kretzmann, Bill Mann, and Ginny Adams (known as Aunt Ginny). Investing comes with misconceptions and fears, which results in a lack of enthusiasm from teenagers. The stock market can seem like a scary, almost casino like place, but it's far from that. With knowledge and research, most investors can get some baggers! Early Bird teaches the reader what goes into a good company, if they're ethical, what numbers to look for, how to open an account, which company has the competitive advantage, and more. This book gives readers easy to follow directions so they can do it on their own, without influencing any particular company. Early Bird inspires us with innovators and leaders in the industry from a young person's perspective.

The City and the Pillar

The City and the Pillar
Author: Gore Vidal
Publisher: New American Library of Canada
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1965
Genre: Gay men
ISBN:

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Jim has never outgrown his crush on his childhood friend.