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Series
Princess Academy trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland.
Author
Language
English
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Harvard psychologist and TED star Amy Cuddy reveals how to unleash your boldest self to heighten your confidence, influence others, and perform at your peak. Filled with stories of people facing challenges from job interviews to asking someone out; scientific research on how our bodies change our minds; and strategies like power posing, "Presence" is a must-read for anyone yearning to project their true power.
3) Dear girl
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: Dear Girl, is a remarkable love letter written for the special girl in your life. Through Amy and Paris?s charming text and Holly Hatam?s stunning illustrations, any girl reading this book will feel that she?s perfect?whether she enjoys jumping in a muddy puddle, has a face full of freckles, or dances on table tops. This book encourages girls to always be themselves and to love who they are?inside and out.
4) Wordy Birdy
Author
Series
Wordy Birdy volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Wordy Birdy loves to talk, but will she ever learn to listen?"--
5) Glamsters
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Harriet the hamster is desperate to be adopted, so she gives her sister Patricia and herself glamorous makeovers in hopes they will get more attention when Hamster World has its huge annual sale.
6) Front desk
Author
Series
Front desk volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Amina's Voice Read-alikes
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month - Books for Elementary Readers
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month - Books for Elementary Readers
Description
Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade...
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English
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She hadn't told anyone. Not a single soul. Not one word about that night and what had been done to her had ever passed Maddy Malone's lips. She'd thought about it at first - had been desperate, even frantic, to tell. But then had come the shame, and the intimidation from the boys who raped her - and the one who held her down. Now it's the beginning of a new school year and Maddy is hoping that she can continue to hide, making herself as quiet and...
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Series
Timmy Failure volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Timmy Failure has a plan for a money making detective agency but mistakes were made.
Author
Series
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
Elinor is used to doing very well in school, but as Poem in Your Pocket Day approaches, bringing an opportunity to meet a real poet, her struggle to write a perfect poem causes Elinor's confidence to falter, despite Mr. Tiffin's guidance and reassurance.
Author
Series
The Unwanteds volume 2
Language
English
Description
As the Wanteds, Unwanteds, and Necessaries struggle to adjust to changes in their society, Mr. Today begins training fourteen-year-old Alex to replace him as Artime's leader one day while Alex's disgraced twin, Aaron, connives to take over Quill.
12) This is it
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A young dancer finds confidence in herself in this picture book about dance, individuality, and self expression"--
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Let's hear it for everything that makes you the amazing, awesome, inspiring kid that you are... Your curiosity and creativity. Your bravery and kindness. Your sense of humor and fun. Your ability to get up again when you get knocked down. Your way of helping others. Yeah--you are all that and more! You are every good thing that makes the world go round. So go ahead and show us your magnificence--all the things that make you, you." --
Author
Series
Tristan Strong volume 1
Language
English
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2020 Youth Media Awards: Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery, and Printz!
2022-2023 OBOB 6th to 8th Grade
2022-2023 OBOB 6th to 8th Grade
Description
Seventh-grader Tristan Strong tumbles into the MidPass and, with allies John Henry and Brer Rabbit, must entice the god Anansi to come out of hiding and seal the hole Tristan accidentally ripped in the sky.
16) Just kidding
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
With help from his father, older brother, and teacher, D.J. learns how to handle a classmate who claims that his mean-spirited "teasing" is just a joke.
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Language
English
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Description
She Explores is a spirited celebration of female bravery and courage, and an inspirational companion for any woman who wants to travel the world on her own terms. Combining travel photography with personal narratives, She Explores shares the stories of 40 diverse women on unforgettable journeys in nature: women who live out of vans, trucks, and vintage trailers, hiking the wild, cooking meals over campfires, and sleeping under the stars. Women biking...
Author
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: In this young readers edition of her New York Times bestseller Professional Troublemaker, Luvvie Ajayi Jones uses her honesty and humor to inspire teens to be their bravest, boldest, truest selves, in order to create a world they would be proud to live in.
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