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Starting school a week late is bad. Sitting next to the class bully? Worse. But things really got out of hand when I grabbed a crummy backpack from the lost and found—and found a tiny vampire prince living inside it. Yep. A real vampire. With wings. And fangs. And attitude. He’s bossy, hates Lunchables, and may or may not have done my math homework. Now I’ve got to survive bullies, a talent show, and keep my fanged “roommate” a secret—before the whole school finds out.

In 1980, Graham Broyd did something outrageous—he sold his scholarship ticket to Washington, DC, bought a one-way flight to Los Angeles, and set off to hitchhike across America. Armed with a red backpack, a surfboard, and a knack for finding himself in both incredible and ridiculous situations, he bummed rides, crashed on beaches, and stumbled into experiences that would shape him forever. From rolling the dice in Vegas to interviewing senators in Congress, from the open roads of the West to the neon chaos of New York City, every mile brought a new story.

In this powerful memoir, Susan Ralphe employs sharp storytelling skills honed over a long newspaper reporting career to tell her own story of long-term, heart-wrenching bipolar madness. She recounts soaring accomplishments alternating with black periods of tenseness, brain freeze, and despair.

My Backpack Is Heavier than Yours: The Plight of Marginalized Students is an award-winning, powerful, and eye-opening book that delves into some of the unique challenges faced by marginalized students in the pursuit of academic success. Best-selling author Dr. Edwin Garcia, Jr. analyzes the systemic barriers, biases, and inequities these students face daily, including underfunded schools, lack of resources, cultural insensitivity, implicit bias, and much more in the education system.

It's the first day of fourth-grade for twins Andy and Anna. Andy is a shy boy obsessed with dinosaurs and Anna is an adventurous girl willing to take risks. One day when they step off the school bus, Anna suggests taking a shortcut through a dark alley to get home. As they navigate through the abandoned alley, they find a mysterious large egg tucked under a bush. They take it home and try to hatch it, careful not to tell their parents who are strict about pets.

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, Anna encourages Andy to write his class crush a romantic note. During class one day, Andy finally agrees and begins penning a Valentine letter. When Mason Mitchell sees the note and almost reads it aloud in front of the class, a daring rescue mission involving Andy, Anna, and everyone’s favorite velociraptor begins to recapture the note before the class bully does.

Days after Alex Cooper told her parents that she was gay, they drove Alex from their home in Southern California to Utah, where they signed over guardianship to fellow Mormons who promised to save Alex from her homosexuality. For eight harrowing months, Alex was held captive in an unlicensed...

This is the second in a hilarious new series featuring one boy and a little dragon with an oversize appetite for adventure. Eric finally succumbs to Pan's demands and agrees to take the Mini-Dragon to school with him. But Eric gets more trouble than he bargained for when nightmare neighbour Toby switches his backpack with Eric's and dragon-naps Pan! Now Eric must dash across town to Toby's posh school and swap them back before his snappy secret is out!

The wonderful first novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Sleeper and The Sisterhood. It's New Year's Day and the year isn't kicking off well for Tansy: her mother's dead, she's a cocaine addict and her boyfriend has just left her. A trip around the world seems like the only option except that she's not interested in seeing the world, just escaping from it, and the last people she wants to hang out with are backpackers.

A podcast about working online, becoming a digital nomad, travelling the world, and practising minimalism. About creating a life that is extravagantly and unashamedly your own. For those who carry their lives in a backpack.Support the podcast with a cup of coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lifeinabackpackApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-life-in-a-backpack-backpacking-on-a/id1685030667Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/41kZRSxG7eP2TUczW4Fon5

The Backpack: How to Understand and Manage Yourself While Loving Others Along the Way tells the story of Jon, Sofia, and Buddy, whose pathways merge on a life-changing flight. Written by a senior consultant with the Flippen Group (a worldwide leader in self-awareness training), the book brings together an angry passenger, a wise flight attendant, and a down-home cowboy. Their chance meeting leads to the ride of their lives as they fully grasp the importance and meaning of their backpacks. As this engaging story reveals, self-awareness is like a backpack!

In these six unforgettable tales, ordinary lives twist toward the extraordinary. A girl in the Arctic discovers a dangerous way to silence the stone figure haunting her home. A snowbound woman realizes too late the stranger upstairs is not who she believed. A lakeside summer friendship becomes a lifelong reckoning in the award-winning title story, The Plainness of My Fall. From magical realism to stark reality, J.G. Macdonald crafts worlds where the smallest choices lead to the largest consequences — and where endings are never quite what you expect.