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1) Swing
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As four very different letters arrive at the playground, each makes the next feel unwelcome, but once they begin to swing together, they have a wonderful time.
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Upside-down magic volume 7
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When a flood forces Nory and her best friends to evacuate Dunwiddle and relocate to prestigious Sage Academy, the upside-down magic students have a hard time fitting in.
3) Wolf girl
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Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (color) ; 25 x 29 cm
Description
"Sophy is a shy girl who struggles to fit in in the outside world. She is happiest at home, playing in her wolf suit in her den. It makes her feel strong like a wolf, fierce like a wolf, and maybe even a little bit brave like a wolf. She loves her suit so much she decides to wear it to school one day, but it doesn't go well. She tries to talk at school but the words get stuck in her throat and everyone laughs and whispers behind her back. But one...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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""So delicately calibrated and precisely beautiful that one might not immediately sense the sledgehammer of pain building inside this book. And I mean that in the best way. What powerful tension and depth this provides!"-Aimee Bender. Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world. Isolated at home and...
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Song below water volume 2
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
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Once Portland-famous and now infamous, seventeen-year-old Naema Bradshaw is an Eloko--a charismatic person gifted with a melody that people adore--who navigates a personal and public reckoning, confronts the limits of her priviledge, and discovers the nature of her Black girl magic.
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Norendy tales volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends--a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl--bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark. Individually, they dream of song and light, freedom and flight, purpose and glory, but they all agree they are part of a larger story, bound each to each by chance, bonded by the heart's mysteries. When at last their shared fate arrives, landing them on a mantel in a blue room...
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Magination Press, an imprint of the American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
32 pages
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Calvin has lived in many houses that never felt like home, but Maggie, his new foster mother, helps him deal with his emotions when he misbehaves, and still offers hugs.
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Found abandoned in a bear cave as a baby, and cursed with unusual size and strength, twelve-year-old Yanka the bear has never felt she belonged in the small village where she grew up; the Snow Forest seems to call to her and when she wakes up one day with her legs transformed into bear legs she flees the village, and embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover clues to her mysterious origin and identity.
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Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives -- experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. Now Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization. Brown argues that we're experiencing a spiritual crisis of disconnection, and introduces four practices of true belonging that challenge everything we believe...
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Monster who wasn't trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
272 pages cm
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Imp, hatched in the underground monsters lair looking like a human boy, does not know where he fits, but Thunderguts, king of the ogres, has a dangerous destiny in mind for him.
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
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Inheriting First Uncle's home after he dies tragically and unexpectedly, eleven-year-old Meixing and her family immigrate to the New Land, where it will take all of Meixing's resilience and bravery to finally find her place of belonging in this new world.
14) Pie in the Sky
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
380 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
Knowing very little English, eleven-year-old Jingwen feels like an alien when his family immigrates to Australia, but copes with loneliness and the loss of his father by baking elaborate cakes.
15) Parker's place
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Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (color) ; 24 x 29 cm
Description
"A friendly T. rex tries to fit in on a farm where no jobs seem suitable for a dinosaur"--
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"Otto is an ornament. He’s glittery, he’s colorful, he’s full of Christmas pizzazz! Otto wants to be at the top of the tree, not in the middle with all of the regular ornaments! Doesn’t he deserve to shine at the top? Will Otto be able to find the tree he dreams of and learn about kindness and chosen family along the way?" --publisher's website.
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Series
Remixed classics volume 4
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
287 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Two lost souls cut off from their heritage find solace in each other in this remix of the gothic novel Wuthering Heights"--
18) Tokyo ever after
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Series
Tokyo ever after volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
After learning that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, Izumi travels to Tokyo, where she discovers that Japanese imperial life--complete with designer clothes, court intrigue, paparazzi scandals, and a forbidden romance with her handsome but stoic bodyguard--is a tough fit for the outspoken and irreverant eighteen-year-old from northern California.
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Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
360 pages
Description
" Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority? How many alcoholic drinks do you consume a week? Would you rather be a florist or a truck driver? These are the questions that decide who has what it takes to live at South Pole Station, a place with an average temperature of -54°F and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling is adrift at thirty, unmoored by a family tragedy and floundering in her career...
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Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
405 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima, a city devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by Americans.
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