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61) Say my name
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six people from different corners of the world celebrate the history, culture, and beauty behind their names.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
An inspiring YA debut from the author of Dangerous Minds.
Eddie Corazon is angry. He’s also very smart. But he’s working pretty hard at being a juvenile delinquent. He blows off school, even though he’s a secret reader. He hangs with his cousins, who will always back him up—when they aren’t in jail.
Then along comes Lupe, who makes his blood race. She sees something in Eddie he doesn’t even see...
Eddie Corazon is angry. He’s also very smart. But he’s working pretty hard at being a juvenile delinquent. He blows off school, even though he’s a secret reader. He hangs with his cousins, who will always back him up—when they aren’t in jail.
Then along comes Lupe, who makes his blood race. She sees something in Eddie he doesn’t even see...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lillian Stone—childhood evangelical, AOL girlfriend, and professional nail biter is always living on the edge of anxiety. From the pitfalls of a girl plagued by religious trauma, the incomprehensible yet unforgiving need for perfection, and a poorly-behaved twenty-pound beagle, this is a refreshing narrative of what it means to pick yourself when the world is telling you otherwise. Still navigating the ins and outs of adulthood, accompanied by an...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sydney's charismatic older brother, Peyton, has always been the center of attention in the family but when he is sent to jail, Sydney struggles to find her place at home and the world until she meets the Chathams, including gentle, protective Mac, who makes her feel seen for the first time.
Author
Series
Stephen McCranie's Space Boy volume 6
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
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.
Author
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
2008, c2006
Edition
First Yearling edition.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Clara Luna spends the summer with her grandparents in the tiny, remote village of Yucuyoo, Mexico, learning about her grandmother's life as a healer, her father's decision to leave home for the United States, and her own place in the world.
68) Hancock
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
1-disc unrated ed.
Language
English
Description
A superhero with total disregard for the damage he causes while saving people finds himself having his image changed by a public relations executive, in return for saving the executive's life.
69) Flipped
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.
Author
Publisher
Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Self-doubt limits our perception of our potential and diminishes our joy and hope in who we are and what we can become. When we don't feel good about ourselves, we have help. Jesus Christ saves us not only from our imperfections but also from our imperfect understanding of ourselves. This book explores sources of self-doubt and the impact of positive psychology in changing our thought patterns. It emphasizes an often-ignored dimension of the Atonement...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dorothea Benton Frank is one of America's most insightful writers weaving highly addictive tales of the conundrums of life with hilarity and heat. Now, in The Land of Mango Sunsets, Frank gives us one woman's journey toward a hard-won truth—life isn't always what it appears to be, and the sooner you realize that pride won't keep you warm at night, the happier you will be. Oh, and one other thing—a truly joyous life comes with a generous
...Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
In this New York Times bestselling extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years.
"Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered...."
Meet Dolores Price. She's thirteen, wise-mouthed...
"Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered...."
Meet Dolores Price. She's thirteen, wise-mouthed...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alison Eastlake has come a long way from the wild days of her youth in England. Now, instead of streaking her hair purple, dreaming of becoming an artist, and sneaking cigarettes in her friend Sophie's basement, she has a career in advertising in Los Angeles, and attends black-tie dinners with her executive husband. She fears that she is fast becoming the type of person she once despised. When Alison receives the news that Sophie has died of a drug...
Author
Series
Stephen McCranie's Space Boy volume 3
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
While Amy learns to adapt to life on Earth and deepens her friendship with Oliver, she decides to reach out to someone from her past.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The groundbreaking story by New York Times best-selling author Ned Vizzini that inspired the Tony-nominated Broadway musical--now adapted in a graphic novel by #1 New York Times best-selling author David Levithan. Jeremy Heere is your average high school dork. Day after day, he stares at beautiful Christine, the girl he can never have, and dryly notes the small humiliations that come his way. Until the day he learns about the "squip." A pill-sized...
Author
Publisher
Free Spirit Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Bilingual Edition.
Language
English
Description
"This English-Spanish bilingual book of sweet, simple affirmations for children helps them respect their bodies, acknowledge their needs, name their feelings, and build their self-esteem. Just Because I Am/Solo porque soy yo invites little ones to love, accept, and feel good about themselves exactly as they are. A section for adults includes activities and discussion questions in both languages"--
"English-Spanish bilingual book for young children...
Author
Series
Aristotle and Dante volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
78) Petra
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
North American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Petra is a little rock who believes she is a mighty mountain... until a dog fetches her for its owner, and she is tossed into a bird's nest. A mountain? No, Petra is now an egg! An egg of the world in a world of possibility.
Author
Series
Cyrus Haven novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A girl is found hiding in a secret room in a house being renovated after a terrible crime. For weeks, she has survived by sneaking out at night, stealing food for herself and two dogs that are kept in the garden. The nurses at the hospital where she is taken call her "Angel Face" because she won't tell anyone her name, or her age, or where she came from. Maybe she is 12, maybe 15, or somewhere in between. She doesn't appear on any missing person's...
Author
Series
Stephen McCranie's Space Boy volume 2
Publisher
Dark Horse Books, a division of Dark Horse Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"After being forced to leave her space-colony home when her dad was fired, Amy starts to adapt to a new life on Earth. High school seems difficult at first, but a close group of friends begin to make the transition easier for her"--
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