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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert's The Unreality of Memory consists of a series of lyrical and deeply researched meditations on what our culture of catastrophe has done to public discourse and our own inner lives. In these tender and prophetic essays, she focuses in on our daily preoccupation and favorite pastime"--
22) Peaces
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment - and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train station, but quickly deduce that The Lucky Day is no ordinary locomotive. Their trip on this former tea-smuggling train has been curated beyond their wildest imaginations, complete with mysterious and welcoming...
23) The identity code: the eight essential questions for finding your purpose and place in the world
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
25) Why?
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Would-be supervillain Doctor X-Ray swoops into the mall, threatening destruction, only to be confronted by a little girl asking "why" to his every declaration, until finally he is forced to reveal, and understand, the root of his anger--and so departs in peace.
26) How to be
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When two children pretend to be various animals, they discover how to be themselves.
28) Understood Betsy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Timid and small for her age, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann discovers her own abilities and gains a new perception of the world around her when she goes to live with relatives on a farm in Vermont.
29) Saint Anything
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sydney's charismatic older brother Peyton has always been the center of attention in the family, but when he's sent to jail, Sydney struggles to find her place at home and the world until she meets the Chathams, including gentle, protective Mac, who makes her feel seen for the first time.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"Waverly Camdenmar, an overachiever in every way, seems perfect, yet perfection is exhausting. She has not slept in days and then one night she falls asleep and walks into someone else's life. She dream visits a boy she could never be with and is forced to decide what matters most to her"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When popular Lizzie Lovett goes missing, seventeen-year-old Hawthorne, a lonely misfit, finds herself becoming obsessed with solving the mystery.
Bad things don't happen to popular girls like Lizzie Lovett-- until her disappearance became the one fascinating mystery the sleepy town of Griffin Mills has ever had. Hawthorn is convinced she'll turn up at any moment, and comes up with her own theory for Lizzie's disappearance. A theory way too absurd...
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Language
English
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Description
"Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies. [This book] offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by these violent systems. World-renowned activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor invites us to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies...
35) Boy girl boy
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Three troubled high school seniors, who plan to run away together from Illinois to California after graduation, try to figure out who they are who they want to be.
36) Smile
Author
Series
Smile volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood!
Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there's still more to...
37) Flipped
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, two eighth-graders describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.
Author
Series
Tending roses volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours explores the connection between our hearts and our pasts in this emotional novel in the Tending Roses series....
Once trapped in a world of poverty and neglect, Dell Jordan knows she was one of the lucky ones. Adopted at thirteen, she was loved, mentored, and encouraged to pursue her passion for music. By twenty, her...
Once trapped in a world of poverty and neglect, Dell Jordan knows she was one of the lucky ones. Adopted at thirteen, she was loved, mentored, and encouraged to pursue her passion for music. By twenty, her...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After an adoptive mother tells her daughter all the reasons that she is her "real mother," the young girl realizes that her mother is right, even though they do not look alike.