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1) Funny story
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"Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to begin a relationship with his lifelong best friend, Petra. And so that's how Daphne's story really begins: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan,...
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"In 1924, four-year-old Cecily Larson's mother reluctantly drops her off at an orphanage in Chicago, promising to be back once she's made enough money to support both Cecily and herself. But she never returns, and shortly after high-spirited Cecily turns seven, she's sold to a traveling circus to perform as the 'little sister' to glamorous bareback rider Isabelle DuMonde. With Isabelle and the rest of the circus, Cecily finally feels she's found the...
3) Ugly Me
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Ugly Me volume 1
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"She yells. She curses. She fights. Her classmates say she's difficult. Her teacher's say she's the student from hell... Randi Lewis isn't your typical seventh-grader. She's a damaged girl with a secret life who just wants to be a normal, happy teenager. And on her first day of seventh grade, she vows to make this the year she turns it all around. This will be the year that she'll finally let go of her pain and her anger and be happy again. All she...
5) The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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"After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In [this book], social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need...
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Disney Bibbidi Bobbidi Academy volume 2
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"Learn the secrets to becoming a Disney fairy godmother in the second book of this new illustrated chapter book series for young readers! Determined to earn her wand twinkles at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Ball, Mai Magicwhisp decides to do all of her spells at once. But her plan to perform the most magical transformation ever is put on hold when she accidentally turns one of her classmates, Tatia Shine, into a unicorn! Now Mai has to work together with Tatia...
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Stillhouse Lake volume 1
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Gina Royal is the definition of average--a shy Midwestern housewife with a happy marriage and two adorable children. But when a car accident reveals her husband's secret life as a serial killer, she must remake herself as Gwen Proctor--the ultimate warrior mom. With her ex now in prison, Gwen has finally found refuge in a new home on remote Stillhouse Lake. Though still the target of stalkers and Internet trolls who think she had something to do with...
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"When it comes to family rules around video games, most parents are at a loss. How much should I let them play? is always a parent's first question, but when their child becomes irritable, rude, or seemingly directionless, the question becomes more urgent: Help! How do I get them to be interested in anything else?! Known as "Dr. K" to his millions of followers, the former Harvard Medical School instructor and founder of the unique gamer's support...
11) Peppa Loves Yoga
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"Peppa and her pals practice yoga, mindfulness, and how to keep calm..."--
13) James: A Novel
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"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
14) Gritty Ninja
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Gritty Ninja was the type of ninja that seemed to be good at everything. He wasn't particularly talented at anything. But the one thing that set him apart was that he just never gave up. But once upon a time, Gritty Ninja was not always like this. He used to give up on things when he got bored, frustrated, or when it got too hard. Things change when a buddy introduces him to a strategy to help him grow grit and not give up. Find out what happens in...
15) Lion Pride!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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510L
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The Kratt brothers activate their creature powers in this creative nonfiction book to introduce readers to lions and how they take care of their young.
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¡Papá sorprende a Ana y Andrew con un viaje de un día a Harlem en la ciudad de Nueva York! Visitan lugares donde vivieron, escribieron y tocaron famosos artistas afroamericanos durante el Renacimiento de Harlem. De camino a casa, ¡hacen algo de arte por su cuenta!
Papa surprises Ana & Andrew with a day trip to Harlem in New York City, where they learn about artists from the Harlem Renaissance. Later, they make their own art. --Title page verso....
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Give Yourself Goosebumps volume 3
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Readers are placed in the role of a lonely newcomer who is invited to join the Horror Club of Bat Wing Hall, and a scavenger hunt reveals that fellow members are really monsters, in a spooky adventure with twenty possible endings.
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Jim Whitmore has lofty dreams of a bright political career. So when a well-connected friend invites him home for the weekend, the promise of rubbing shoulders with her congressman father and his professional associates is thrilling. What he doesn't anticipate is meeting his friend's sister, Katherine, an intriguing woman who immediately steals his heart. After witnessing the arrest of one of her father's colleagues in congress, Katherine Hudson is...
19) Monkey-Cam
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"Experience the world from a monkey's perspective via the video camera on its head ... Through a video camera positioned on the monkey's head, readers can follow along from the monkey's point of view as it slides down a giraffe's neck, meets a lion by mistake, and shares a coconut with a friend"--
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