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81) Pink!
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Pink! is a heartwarming story about learning to be different. Patrick wakes up one morning to find he's turned pink overnight. But boys can't be pink! Rejected by his friends, poor Patrick runs away in search of new pink playmates. He crosses oceans where he finds some pink flamingos, but will he ever fit in with them? Patrick soon learns that friendship is never black and white, but that real friends will accept you just as you are.
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June Goodfellow's two charming stories encourage little nature lovers to think about their dreams... and to go out into the world to make them come true!
THE ACORN FAMILY: Follow the Acorn family as they visit their relatives only to find themselves in the middle of a mystery. Can they solve the case of the disappearing hats?
I WILL CONQUER: Grandad Conker tells us of how Chrissie and Charlie's Great Great Grandad heroically overcame adversity....
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Crowned in Royalty is about a little girl named Aroya, who struggles with her identity. Aroya does not like her hair, nose, or eyes and complains to her family that she is not beautiful. Although her mother and father remind her of how beautiful she is daily, Princeton, her big brother, helps her realize exactly who she is.
Aroya represents young Black girls, who may struggle on a daily basis because of their skin complexion, hair, or other features...
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Manny is unaware of all of the people around him who love and care about him. He is, focused on the lack of love from his absent father. His friend listens and watches as the people in Manny's life share their time and affection with him. With a smiling face and a positive attitude, his friend mentions that she wishes for what he has, Manny, continues unaware. When she shares a saying by her grandmother, "Count your blessings," Manny looks around...
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Isaac's mom and teacher work together to help Isaac learn four simple steps to making the best choice. And this works fine, when one option seems a lot better than the others. But what happens when Isaac doesn't like any of the options? Learn along with Isaac as he practices making choices, and figures out how to think of himself And others in the decision making process. Part of the Stepping Up Social Skills series.
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Herman Jiggle has something he wants to say. He doesn't like recess anymore. And it's NOT because he's kinda sorta shy. Herman is frustrated because recess isn't fun when other kids do things that make it not fun. Like, when you play tag, it isn't supposed to hurt. Or when you play on the playground, you aren't supposed to wind up getting woodchips dumped on your head. And it isn't very fair when kids change the rules so that they are the ones who...
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Blossom is in big trouble. Her grandfather warned her not to go beyond the village gates. After all, no caterpillar in Twig Valley has ever ventured there and returned to tell. But Blossom has a dream in her heart-much too big a dream to stay stuck in tiny Twig Valley. For centuries the caterpillars of Twig Valley have lived with a Dark Cloud over the land. For as long as anyone can remember, no caterpillar has become a butterfly. No one has dreamed...
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Twelve-year-old Faye never, got to live a normal life. At the tender age of four, she was, diagnosed with cancer. Faye spent most of her time in and out of the hospital. She was unable to do, a lot of, things that other kids her age were able to do because her health and strength was a constant battle for her. As if that is not enough for little, Faye to deal with, she also has, to deal with losing her hair, from the cancer treatments. Faye constantly...
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This is an exciting fun-filled book about an eight-year-old boy named Little Ouch. He learns a valuable and very important lesson about living an unhappy and unfulfilled life to one that gives him a wonderful feeling of self-esteem and self-confidence. He has transformed from having a terrible bad attitude to one of pride and great personal satisfaction. He realizes it's much better going through life with a positive attitude, one that his friends...
93) The Yes
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In a soft comfy nest in a safe warm place there snoozed a great big orange thing called the Yes. He was snug, but the Yes had a Where to go to. So he left his nest and went trundling out. But the Where was an endless place of Nos. They teemed and seethed. They picked and nipped, and snipped and snicked. The Yes yessed in all his goodness and bigness and yesness. But was he strong enough to overcome them?
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Addy has never been good at sports. She's so clumsy, she's earned the name Hurricane Addy, but this year, all of that is going to change. Addy wants to join the swim team at the Club. She's surprised to learn how much exercise and training it takes to become a strong swimmer. Does Addy have what it takes to be the athlete she always dreamed of becoming?
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"High School In A Book" is designed to give incoming freshman a glimpse of what they will experience in a 21st century high school. From the educational to the social experiences, this book will give young students the tools to handle each situation they find themselves in. M.B. Noack decodes the myths of older siblings and gives real advice about what freshman in high school can expect.
Every high school is different. But the broad strokes of what...
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From the author of the classic Tashi series, a hilarious story about losing your words, finding your courage, and arm-wrestling your way out of big trouble. Louis's best friends, Singo and Hassan, are into basketball and skateboarding, and his dad is into arm-wrestling. Dad wants to build Louis up with wrestling moves like the Walls of Jericho or the Five Star Frog Splash, but Louis is better at flexing words than flexing his muscles. This summer...
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Introduce children to flexibility, stick-to-it-iveness (perseverance), and the benefits of trying something new in this English-Spanish bilingual book. It's hard to try new things-for adults as well as children. It's even harder to stay the course when something is more difficult than we thought it would be, or when things don't work out the way we hoped. Yet flexibility and perseverance are essential to success in all areas of life, at all ages and...
99) My Super Power
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My Superpower is a book that was written from my personal point of view on how, as a child, you are innocent, confident, and view yourself as perfection until one brings insecurities into your world. Those insecurities are developed by different experiences that break your confidence, revels imperfections, and alters your personality, turning you into a person that you aren't and into a person who judges themselves and views life with doubt. But there...
100) The Cool Kid
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The current social media, movies, TV, etc., that we are living through has shown us that our society craves to be cool. Whether by the clothes we wear, attitude expressed, music we listen to, or people we follow, being labeled "cool" has always been a sort of badge of honor; however, very few understand that being "cool" comes with responsibilities. My hope is to provide a more inclusive and less hateful future, which I feel can only be achieved with...
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