Steven Frank
Author
Series
Basketball legends ; 32
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
"During the pilot year of a Los Angeles school system integration program, two sixth grade boys, one black, one white, become best friends as they learn to cope with everything from first crushes and playground politics to the loss of loved ones and racial prejudice in the 1970s"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
During the pilot year of a Los Angeles school system integration program, Armstrong and Charlie learn to cope with everything from first crushes and playground politics to the loss of loved ones and racial prejudice in the 1970s.
Charlie isn’t looking forward to sixth grade. If he starts sixth grade, chances are he’ll finish it, and he’ll be older than his older brother ever was.
Armstrong isn’t looking
...5) Class Action
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
NO. MORE. HOMEWORK.
That's what sixth grader Sam Warren tells his teacher while standing on top of his desk. He's fed up with doing endless tasks from the time he gets home to the time he goes to sleep. Suspended for his protest, Sam decides to fight back. He recruits his elderly neighbor/retired attorney Mr. Kalman to help him file a class action lawsuit on behalf of all students in Los Angeles. Their argument? Homework is unconstitutional....
That's what sixth grader Sam Warren tells his teacher while standing on top of his desk. He's fed up with doing endless tasks from the time he gets home to the time he goes to sleep. Suspended for his protest, Sam decides to fight back. He recruits his elderly neighbor/retired attorney Mr. Kalman to help him file a class action lawsuit on behalf of all students in Los Angeles. Their argument? Homework is unconstitutional....
Author
Language
English
Description
Steven A. Frank is Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. His books include Dynamics of Cancer, Immunology and Evolution of Infectious Disease, and Foundations of Social Evolution (all Princeton).
A powerful framework for understanding how natural selection shapes adaptation and biological design
Design and diversity are the two great challenges in the study of life. Microbial Life History draws on...
Author
Language
English
Description
Steven A. Frank is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of Foundations of Social Evolution (Princeton).
From HIV to influenza, the battle between infectious agents and the immune system is at the heart of disease. Knowledge of how and why parasites vary to escape recognition by the immune system is central to vaccine design, the control of epidemics, and our fundamental understanding of parasite...
Author
Publisher
Springer Open
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
This open access Brief introduces the basic principles of control theory in a concise self-study guide. It complements the classic texts by emphasizing the simple conceptual unity of the subject. A novice can quickly see how and why the different parts fit together. The concepts build slowly and naturally one after another, until the reader soon has a view of the whole. Each concept is illustrated by detailed examples and graphics. The full software...
9) Class action
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"With the help of his older sister, his three best friends, and his elderly neighbor, sixth grader Sam Warren brings a class action suit against the Los Angeles School Board, arguing that homework is unconstitutional, and his case goes all the way to the Supreme Court." --
11) Global warning
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Five seventh-graders concerned about climate change work with a retired lawyer and an activist grandmother to build an international movement to amend the United States Constitution, protecting humanity's right to live on a planet free of pollution and warming.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
'Psychic' crime fighter Shawn Spencer and his best bud Burton 'Gus' Guster track down Bigfoot, go undercover as wacky radio DJs and solve the ultimate murder mystery. And, Gus finally gets the girl! Killer secrets are kept, broken and dramatically revealed.