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My weird school volume 9
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English
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A.J. and his friends find out what amazing things Miss Lazar, the Super Custodian at their school, can do.
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The Brown sisters volume 1
Language
English
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"Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost--but not quite--dying, she's come up with seven directives to help her "Get a Life", and she's already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamorous family's mansion. The next items? Enjoy a drunken night out. Ride a motorcycle. Go camping. Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex. Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage. And... do...
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English
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The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of America's dysfunctional coming years - and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink. (Bestseller)
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Series
Angels walking volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When former national baseball star Tyler Ames suffers a career-ending injury, all he can think about is putting his life back together the way it was before. He has lost everyone he loves on his way to the big leagues. Then just when things seem to be turning around, Tyler hits rock bottom. Across the country, Tyler's one true love Sami Dawson has moved on. A series of small miracles leads Tyler to a maintenance job at a retirement home and a friendship...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Ruby grew up the super's daughter in the basement of an Upper West Side co-op that gets more gentrified with each passing year. Her friendship with Caroline, the daughter of affluent tenants, and the neighborhood's location brought certain advantages. Ruby took out loans to attend a prestigious small liberal arts college but now is no closer to her dream job and is forced to move back in with her parents. Tonight Caroline is throwing a party in her...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Accompanying his parents to their night-shift jobs as office cleaners, young Daniel reluctantly joins in as they use their imaginations to transform the deserted building into a magnificent paper kingdom where he might one day rule.
11) Vampire weekend
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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When Ian, a long-lost teenage relative, finds her, Louise Chao, punk rock vampire extraordinaire, feels a connection for the first time in ages, but when he discovers her true identity, he asks her for the ultimate favor--one that might change everything vampires know about life and death forever.
Everything you have heard about vampires is a lie-- vampire life is really just a lot of blood bags and night jobs. For Louise Chao, it's also lonely,...
12) Night job
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
What is it like to work at night, while the rest of the city is asleep? Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse's quietly powerful story of a boy and his father is tenderly brought to life by G. Brian Karas in this luminous tribute to an enduring, everyday sort of love.
13) Too pig to fail
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Series
Batpig volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Gary Yorkshire is finally getting into the swing of this whole superhero thing. But what happens when Batpig is called to battle time itself in a math class that just won't end? Or when the city is attacked by something out of this world? It's not easy being a super-swine, but thank goodness Batpig has good friends to help him out... and remind him to wash his smelly uniform every now and then.
15) Terminal peace
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Series
Janitors of the post-apocalypse volume 3
Publisher
DAW Books
Language
English
Description
Now in paperback, the third and final book of the Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse follows a group of unlikely heroes trying to save the galaxy from a zombie plague.
Marion ?Mops? Adamopoulos and her team were trained to clean spaceships. They were absolutely not trained to fight an interplanetary war with the xenocidal Prodryans or to make first contact with the Jynx, a race who might not be as primitive as they seem. But if there?s one lesson Mops...
16) I'm a custodian
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Series
Publisher
Mayo Clinic Press Kids
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"What does a custodian do every day? Follow custodians in a hospital as they work to keep people healthy and happy. These health heroes do the important work of keeping our hospitals safe and clean. Discover the tools and supplies custodians use as they work with other hospital staff. Like all health heroes, they make sure the needs of the patient come first. Meet a real custodian from Mayo Clinic, and find out how these health heroes save the day,...
17) Hey, Al
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Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
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A city janitor and his treasured canine companion are transported by a large colorful bird to an island in the sky, where their comfortable paradise existence threatens to turn them into birds as well.
18) Assisted living
Publisher
Economic Productions
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Todd is a pot-smoking custodian at a retirement community. When one of the residents mistakes him for her son, he finds himself becoming emotionally attached to his work for the first time.The film was shot "in an actual nursing home, using real residents as many of the actors, with mixed in footage from a documentary that was made at the facility, blurring the lines between fact and fiction."
19) Fart Squad
Author
Series
Fart Squad volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After their lunches are stolen, Harry Buttz Elementary School students Darren, Tina, Juan-Carlos, and Walter eat radioactive burritos that give each a strange ability--along with serious gas--which, with training by Janitor Stan, may help them foil Number Two and the BO twins' evil plan.
20) Custodians
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Publisher
Jump!, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In Custodians, beginning readers will learn about the work custodians do in keeping buildings such as offices and schools clean, safe, and in good repair. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they discover where custodians work and how they spend their days.
A labeled diagram helps readers identify the different tools a custodian uses, while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. Children can learn...
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