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1) Loser
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Even though his classmates from first grade on have considered him strange and a loser, Donald Zinkoff's optimism and exuberance and the support of his loving family do not allow him to feel that way about himself.
2) Loser
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Students deal with the concept of the human spirit and the importance of failure. Challenge students' comprehension of the novel with a variety of question styles and a final quiz. Students describe Zinkoff's self-image as it appears in the novel. Write a triangle poem about being a mail carrier. Find the synonym of vocabulary words found in the text. Students give their impressions of the teacher's speech on Zinkoff's first day of school. Understand...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Ordinary, boring Ed works a loser summer job at Reel Life Movies, where he doesn't even have his own name tag. He's stuck with "Sergio." Ed's only consolations are his two best friends. Shelving DVDs isn't so mind-numbingly dull with Scout cracking jokes, and after hours Ed hangs out with the superbrain, Quark. Life starts to look up when the girl of his dreams saunters into Reel Life. Ed knows he doesn't stand a chance . . . but maybe, just maybe
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid watch out -- Danny Shine and the other kids of Thorn Underwood Middle School aren't bestsellers yet, but they're on their way!When Danny gets caught trying to cross his name off the "Geek" list in the girls' bathroom, he's sent to detention. Bullies torment him mercilessly -- until they discover that Danny can draw. He enjoys his new "bad boy" status, supplying tattoos and graffiti, until he's unknowingly drawn into a theft. Turns...
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Loser List volume 4
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English
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Danny's gotten revenge and broken his JINX. He might finally shed his loser status once and for all ... but where would be the hilarity in that?
Danny Shine is just trying to avoid wrestling Bruiser Pekarsky in gym -- that's why he goes to the info session about running for class president. Even when he's forced to put his name on the ballot, Danny isn't worried. With Chantal Davis running, no one will even know he's there.But when Chantal gets disqualified,...
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Follow along on one man's wild week-end as he staggers through the streets of Calgary from one party to the next as he searches for someone or someplace, something that gives him even a clue about what it is he's looking for in the first place. Don't be surprised if you wake up with a hang-over.
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A modest London accountant on a budget, Mr. Bertram has settled on a honeymoon at the seaside resort of Bournemouth with his fiancée, Cary. However, Bertram's boss, the solicitous Herbert Dreuther, won't hear of anything so common. Bertram and Cary are to be married in Monte Carlo, after which they'll be Dreuther's guests on his private yacht and sail down the coast of Italy. It sounds too lovely to be true. And surely Bertram can afford one night...
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Wesley Cooper thinks happily-ever-afters are a crock and has, in fact, spent his life avoiding women who might expect one. Except for a handful of childhood friends, Wesley has never wanted to get close to anyone. Not since he was eight years old anyway. And when he's forced into a situation where he has to start dating-but-not-dating an old acquaintance, he is far from happy. She's not his type. It is curious though, how many things they have in...
9) The Loser
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I am writing a story of my life. I went into the produce business when I was 12 years old. In 1967 I met and worked for the biggest Teamster boss in the world for nine months. He was sent to prison and later on that same year I was sent to prison. Ive been in and out the prison system for 35 years and wrongly convicted three times. In 1986, I worked for the FBI and was promised 15% of all money collected in the raids, which was 4.2 million after 28...
10) The Loser
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In our lives there are anomymous people that we pass by everyday, the cleaners that wake up at the crack of dawn to clean offices before we start our working day, the street cleaners patrolling our streets, shift workers coming up at the crack of dawn from working thoughout the night. People that go about their lives without glory or acknowledgement; this a short story that looks into the world of one of them.For ten hours a day Michael sits in a...
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John Williams, is on the run from a possible double murder during a Minnesota winter blizzard. John Williams, as always, out of luck and low on bucks. John Williams, trying to slide by, and on the sly. Faced with an ever growing list of calamities, illegal gambling, drug use, manslaughter, ticked o_ pimps, and pissed off bookies, to say nothing of an angry crowd of young, old, and anything in between girls/ladies whose hearts have been broken, innocence...
12) Losers bracket
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Publisher Annotation: A provocative and heart-wrenching novel about family, loss, and loyalty from acclaimed and bestselling author Chris Crutcher. Losers Bracket is the powerful and gripping new novel by the author of Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes and Whale Talk. 256pp.
13) Losers take all
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"At a sports-crazy NJ high school where all kids must play on a team, a group of rebels start a soccer team designed to undermine the jock-culture of the school"--
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I love Joel Osteen. He has such a great smile and sweet spirit. He speaks kindly of everyone, and his sermons are a guaranteed pick-me-up. What's not to love? I love his books, too. When my husband was dealing with depression, my whole prescription was: let's watch a Joel Osteen podcast every morning and read a chapter from his book every night. How can you be depressed with this kind of positive affirmation and promise of God's blessings? (I don't...
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In 2008, after seven years of preparation, Daniel Hochhalter permanently failed his PhD, leaving him with no refunds, no transferable credits, no recourse to appeal or try again, and no hope of gaining the qualifications needed for his desired career. Then he lost his job. Devastated and in crisis, with no Plan B and no clue how to redeem his future, he looked to the twelve disciples and discovered that-despite their gaping faults and sins-God still...
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Finders Keepers, Losers Weep: A Novel of Innocence Betrayed and the Search for Restitution is loosely based on an actual event reported in the St. Louis Post- Dispatch, by Michael D. Sorkin entitled, Federal Agents Raid St. Charles Home by Mistake. Informer Told ATF that the house was center of illegal guns ring. Randolph Kennedy, his wife, Irene, and their little daughter Annie are ready to sit down for supper. Randolph is cleaning his handgun and...
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Losers volume 13
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International action and intrigue explode in the new title that inspired the 2010 Warner Bros. movie. THE LOSERS BOOK TWO finds the hard-luck black-ops band flying from Qatar to Turkmenistan amid oilydealings and flying bullets. Includes a new introduction by Ian Rankin and new cover by Jock.
18) Losers
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The perks of being an émigré wallflower Jupiter was born in Russia, but he's getting quite an education in America. He sees everything slightly askew - but in a way that's endearing to (most) of his fellow students. A popular girl takes him under her wing. He falls for her. A bully sets him as a target. But Jupiter disarms him in an unexpected way. His best friend ends up hanging with a posse of science geeks. Jupiter feels left out. With dead-on...
19) Losers, Inc
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Ethan Winfield has never been an academic or athletic star like his older brother, Peter. But, does that make him a failure? Of course not. Still, Ethan and his best friend, Julius Zimmerman, decide that they qualify to found an exclusive club: Losers, Inc.
No sooner have they done this, however, than both boys fall in love with the new student teacher. Ethan knows right away that to impress Ms. Gunderson he has to excel. Instead of reading the shortest...
20) Losers, Weepers
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A criminal mix-up puts an office drone in the line of fire Jim Morgan can't afford the briefcase. His wife's spending has strangled him with debt, and he's down to his last $20. But the briefcase in the leather shop calls to him. It looks like something an executive would own. It smells like success. When he buys it, he feels a confidence he hasn't felt in years. He tells off the office bully. He talks his way into a raise. The briefcase has made...
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