James Ransome
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"This book outlines a step-by-step process for software security that is relevant to today's technical, operational, business, and development environments. The authors focus on what humans can do to control and manage a secure software development process in the form of best practices and metrics. Although security issues will always exist, this book will teach you how to maximize an organizations ability to minimize vulnerabilities in your software...
3) My teacher
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A student wonders why her teacher has chosen to teach in her school for so long, and highlights all the special things her teacher does for her class.
6) Visiting day
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A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.
11) Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson: taking the stage as the first black and white jazz band in history
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Celebrates the first widely seen integrated jazz performance: the debut of the Benny Goodman quartet with Teddy Wilson in 1936 Chicago.
12) Satchel Paige
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Examines the life of the legendary baseball player, who was the first African-American to pitch in a Major League World Series.
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"You can be a King. Stamp out hatred. Put your foot down and walk tall. You can be a King. Beat the drum for justice. March to your own conscience. Featuring a dual narrative of the key moments of Dr. King's life alongside a modern class as the students learn about him, Carole Weatherford's poetic text encapsulates the moments that readers today can reenact in their own lives. See a class of young students as they begin a school project inspired by...
16) Freedom bird
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In the antebellum South, two siblings shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it west toward freedom.
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"Filled with new and beloved poems, stories, songs, and more, here is a beautiful collection of prose and verse that celebrates the Christmas season. You'll find the classics here, such asSilent Night, Deck the Halls, andThe Twelve Days of Christmas, as well as new stories by the talents of Pam Munoz Ryan, Joseph Bruchac, Katherine Paterson, Nancy Willard, and others. This evocative treasury depicts the holiday season in all its warmth and glory."--Jacket....
18) Freedom's school
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Hungry for learning, Lizzie and her brother Paul attend a new school built for freed slaves.