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Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
3) A frog thing
Author
Publisher
Kidwick Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Frank wasn't satisfied doing ordinary frog things. He wanted to fly, but he was a frog and frogs can't fly. Follow Frank as he jumps and runs and leaps and dives until he finally finds his place in the pond. .
Author
Series
Heartland volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
148 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Against Ty's wishes, Amy brings formerly talented jumper Mercury to a wise horse healer in the mountains who had been friends with her mom, and in the process discovers more about her own abilities.
6) You matter
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read text remind the reader that no matter what happens or how one feels, he or she matters.
7) Lucy Ladybug
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
As spotless Lucy Ladybug flies through the seasons, she acquires some spots, only to find her new spots are different from the other ladybugs.
8) Dear Boy
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Encourages readers to accept and love themselves as they are and advises them to be kind, confident, curious, and adaptable.
9) The patch
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
At first upset about having to wear glasses and an eye patch to correct her lazy eye, five-year-old Becca soon discovers that her new accessories allow her to take on such roles as a ballerina-pirate and a private eye.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"You're fat," Nick Fisher said, and the whole entire hallway fell silent. And then he said it again. "You're fat. And everyone thinks it."
Something like that happens to you--something like what happened to me in fourth grade--and it never leaves your head. It's in there. Forever. Permanently.
And it's not long before you don't even need to Nick Fisher's of the world to be there to tell you what they think of you--you become your own bully.
And...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Auggie is an ordinary kid who doesn't look like other kids. When other children make fun of him, Auggie and his dog put on astronaut helmets and travel through space, then return home where Auggie meets a boy who wants to be his friend.
12) Wonder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
14) Sisters like us
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Divorce left Harper Szymanski with a name no one can spell, a house she can't afford and a teenage daughter who's pulling away. With her fledgling virtual-assistant business, she's scrambling to maintain her overbearing mother's ridiculous standards and still pay the bills, thanks to clients like Lucas, the annoying playboy cop who claims he hangs around for Harper's fresh-baked cookies. Spending half her life in school hasn't prepared Dr. Stacey...
15) Dear Girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Encourages readers to accept and love themselves as they are and advises them to be confident, curious, adaptable, and willing to speak up.
16) Just because
Author
Language
English
Description
From worrying when excited to forgiving while still hurting, children experience everyday paradoxes as they embrace their full potential.
17) Taran Wanderer
Author
Series
Publisher
Square Fish/H. Holt
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.
18) The high king
Author
Series
The chronicles of Prydain volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Chronicles of Prydain, bk 5. Newbery Medal winner, 1969. In this final part of the chronicles of Prydain, the forces of good and evil meet in an ultimate confrontation, which determines the fate of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper who wanted to be a hero.