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"We all know we tell stories about ourselves. But as psychiatrist and neuroscientist Gregory Berns argues in The Self Delusion, we don't just tell stories; we are the stories. Our self-identities are fleeting phenomena, continually reborn as our conscious minds receive, filter, or act on incoming information from the world and our memories. Drawing on new research in neuroscience, social science, and psychiatry, Berns shows how our stories and our...
22) Monster
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Series
Monster volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
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English
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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Rebecca "Rebel" Blue, a loner rebel and budding artist, reluctantly completes the bucket list of Kennedy Green, an over-committed do-gooder classmate who dies in a car accident following a stint in detention where both girls were forced to consider their morality and write bucket lists.
24) Deadline
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos."
25) Twelve
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Winnie relates the events of her twelth year and the many changes in her relationships and in her attitude toward growing up.
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English
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"It is worrying to think that most girls feel dissatisfied with their bodies, and that this can lead to serious problems including depression and eating disorders. Can some of those body image worries be eased? Body image expert and psychology professor Dr. Charlotte Markey helps girls aged 9-15 to understand, accept, and appreciate their bodies. She provides all the facts on puberty, mental health, self-care, why diets are bad news, dealing with...
27) Moose's Big Idea
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Moose, who is good at drawing and making doughnuts, is upset when he loses his antlers, but his encounters with a hunter help them both gain self-respect.
28) Be More Chill
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Badly in need of self-confidence and a change of image, high school nerd Jeremy Heere swallows a pill-sized super computer that is supposed to help him get whatever he wants.
29) The List
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Every year at Mount Washington High School somebody posts a list of the prettiest and ugliest girls from each grade--this is the story of eight girls, freshman to senior, and how they are affected by the list.
30) Get Well Soon
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Ann Bloom volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When her parents confine her to a mental hospital, an overweight teenage girl, who suffers from panic attacks, describes her experiences in a series of letters to a friend.
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Jenna Fox Chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious, by-invitation-only carnival he somehow knows that it could save his comatose brother, but soon learns that much more is at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there by the beautiful Cassandra.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.
34) This Could Be Us
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Skyland volume 2
Language
English
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"Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She's a domestic goddess who's never met a party she couldn't host or a charge she couldn't lead. The one with all the answers and the perfect vinaigrette for that summer salad. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes, and the life she built with the man who was supposed to be...
37) Space Boy Vol. 4
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Series
Space boy volume 4
Language
English
Description
Amy lives on a colony in deep space, but when her father loses his job the family moves back to Earth, where she has to adapt to heavier gravity, a new school, and a strange boy with no flavor.
38) What I Lost
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Elizabeth is sent to the Wallingfield Psychiatric Facility's Residential Treatment Center, she encounters girls whose problems seem much greater than her own anorexia.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Now a senior at her Seattle prep school, Ruby continues her angst-filled days coping with the dilemmas of boyfriends, college applications, her parents' squabbling, and realizing that her "deranged" persona may no longer apply.
40) Ten
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Series
The Winnie years volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Winnie's celebrates her unique style through her first year with a double-digit age as she has many new experiences, from the high of spending time in New York City with her aunt and big sister, to the low of her two best friends suddenly becoming interested in boys.
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