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2) Wonder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
3) Wonder
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Based on the New York Times bestseller, this tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
4) Power play
Author
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In Northern California two successful CEOs are both indispensable to their growing companies’ futures. Both are brilliant at the power game. But the difference between them is huge. One is a man, the other a woman. In this riveting novel, Danielle Steel explores what that means as she takes readers into the rarefied world of those at the pinnacle of international business and reveals the irrevocable...
In Northern California two successful CEOs are both indispensable to their growing companies’ futures. Both are brilliant at the power game. But the difference between them is huge. One is a man, the other a woman. In this riveting novel, Danielle Steel explores what that means as she takes readers into the rarefied world of those at the pinnacle of international business and reveals the irrevocable...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Nicole Lord wants to be a good wife, but there's a difference between being supportive and supporting her husband. He quit his job to write a screenplay she's never seen, leaving Nicole to run the house, work full-time, and care for their young son. Can she say enough is enough without losing the man she loves? Sacrificing a personal life for her career is how Shannon Rigg became V.P. at her firm, but she wonders whether she made the right choice....
6) Batcat
Author
Series
Batcat volume 1
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
First in a full-color graphic novel series for emerging readers about accepting yourself and others from up-and-coming author-illustrator Meggie Ramm, creator of the comic strip The Littlest Dungeon Guard and cohost of the Pop! Whiz! Bang! comics podcast.
Batcat loves being all alone in their home on Spooky Island. Up in their tree house, they pass the time playing video games and watching TV. But when Batcat suddenly...
Batcat loves being all alone in their home on Spooky Island. Up in their tree house, they pass the time playing video games and watching TV. But when Batcat suddenly...
7) Just because
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From worrying when excited to forgiving while still hurting, children experience everyday paradoxes as they embrace their full potential.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Taran is an Assistant Pig-Keeper no longer -- he has become a hero. Now he dreams of winning the hand of Princess Eilonwy, but how can someone who has spent his whole life caring for a pig hope to marry royalty? Taran must find out who he really is."--Provided by publisher.
10) Loser
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Even though his classmates from first grade on have considered him strange and a loser, Daniel Zinkoff's optimism and exuberance and the support of his loving family do not allow him to feel that way about himself.
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Language
English
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"Bob Comet is a retired librarian, isolated but not lonely, living out his quiet days in a mint-colored house in Oregon, surrounded by his books and small comforts. One morning, out on his daily walk, he performs an act of kindness that brings him into contact with a nearby senior center, where he soon begins volunteering. Here, as a community of peers and friends gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from...
12) Four friends
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Series
Language
English
Description
Gerri can't decide what's more devastating: learning her rock solid marriage has big cracks, or the anger she feels as she tries to repair them. Always the anchor for friends and her three angst ridden teenagers, it's time to look carefully at herself. The journey is more than revealing, its transforming. Andy doesn't have a great track record with men, and she's come to believe that a lasting love is out of reach. When she finds herself attracted...
13) Clumsy crab
Author
Series
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nipper the crab hates his huge, clumsy claws until his friend Octopus gets tangled up in some seaweed and only Nipper can free him.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living life is about action: courageous, benevolent, worthy, Wise, and productive action. Start living with some help from Dr. Laura Schlessinger.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger agrees that there are things worth whining about. A certain amount of whining allows for venting of reasonable pain, disappointment, fear, frustration, or rage. However, staying stuck in whining mode can become a lifelong problem. This is where Dr. Laura steps in with Stop Whining,...
16) My heart
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"From moments of great joy and exuberance to necessary times of quiet contemplation, your heart is your guide" --
18) Sulwe
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When five-year-old Sulwe's classmates make fun of her dark skin, she tries lightening herself to no avail, but her encounter with a shooting star helps her understand there is beauty in every shade.
19) Giraffe problems
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A giraffe struggles to feel comfortable with his neck"--
20) The OK book
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A character enumerates a great many things that it enjoys doing, although not great at any of them, knowing that someday it will excel at something.