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41) Skater Cielo
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2022.
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English
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Cielo loves to skateboard, but loses her confidence after a fall, until the intervention of some new friends helps her regains her confidence.
43) On ice!
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Friends Horse and Buggy take to the ice, where Horse's overconfidence leads to a spectacular fall, but a quick recovery"--
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English
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New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller! Girls can rule the world - all they need is confidence. This empowering, entertaining guide from the bestselling authors of The Confidence Code gives girls the essential yet elusive code to becoming bold, brave, and fearless. It's a paradox familiar to parents everywhere: girls are achieving like never before, yet they're consumed with doubt on the inside. Girls worry constantly about...
47) Bear outside
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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A little girl wears a bear on the outside to keep her safe and to be her friend, just as some people have a fierce animal inside to protect them.
48) Starfish
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English
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Michael L. Printz Award Winners and Honors
Summer Reading Challenge: Read a Book in Verse or a Book of Poetry
Summer Reading Challenge: Read a Book in Verse or a Book of Poetry
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Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.
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English
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Gracie LaRoo, the youngest pig on the Water Sprites synchronized swimming team, is nervous about giving a speech at the Wilbur Academy, the school she used to attend--she loves her sport, but her old coach does not think that it really measures up to swim racing.
51) Jack the wolf
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Pub. Date
2002
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English
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Jack is not happy on his first day of school until he is chosen to play the part of the big, bad wolf
54) Hoggy at bat
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Now that this former ball hog has learned to be a team player, Hoggy's friends think he's a real catch. But Hoggy feels more at home on the basketball court than he does on the baseball diamond. He wants to hit the ball so flawlessly that it soars over the fence. Instead, it's a swing and a miss. When Hoggy strikes out, the pressure is on. Can he learn to relax and enjoy a fun game with his friends? Or will the pressure to win keep him from stepping...
56) To catch a thief
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English
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Eleven-year-old Amelia thinks of herself as devoid of talent, but when the dragonfly staff goes missing seven days before the Dragonfly Day Festival, she takes it upon herself to catch the thief and save her town.
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English
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2023 Summer Reading Challenge: Read A Book With A Human Who Doesn't Look Or Live Like You
2024 Nutmeg Book Award Intermediate Nominees
2024 Nutmeg Book Award Intermediate Nominees
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When a racist incident rocks her small Michigan town, eleven-year-old Lekha must decide whether to speak up or stay silent, even as she struggles to navigate her life at home, where she can be herself, and at school, where she is teased about her culture.
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Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
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Over the last 100 years, the road to success for most everyone has been divided into five predictable stages: Learning, Editing, Mastering, Harvesting, and Guiding. While none of the stages can be skipped, they can be shortened and accelerated. There are only two paths in life: average and awesome. The average path is easy because all you have to do is nothing. The awesome path is more challenging, because things like fear only bother you when you...
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