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1) Funny story
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English
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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,...
2) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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This is an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health--and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. 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 The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen...
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Henry chapter books volume 2
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English
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Henry, a young boy with autism goes on a class field trip to the natural history museum, with instructions to find something new.
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ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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This collection includes 25 projects each for Eco Explorers, Global Explorers, and Art Explorers which can be integrated into K-5 educational lesson plans and library programming for children aged 4-10. Each set of projects offers hands-on activities for teaching children what makes each topic special, materials lists, programming tips, and additional resources.
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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From the outside, Alicia, Jessica and Norah might seem like ordinary women you'd meet on the street any day of the week. Sure, Jessica has a little OCD and Norah has some anger issues. And Alicia has low self-esteem that manifests itself in surprising ways. But these three have a bond that no one can fully understand. It's a bond that takes them back decades, to when they were girls, and they lived on a farm with a foster mother named Miss Fairchild....
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English
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James is 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 Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As...
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ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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There is a rich and varied body of literature for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, asexual/allied and intersexed young people, which can function as a mirror for LGBTQAI+ individuals and as a window for others. This resource for librarians who work with children and teens surveys the best in LGBTQAI+ lit and offers guidance on how to share it to encourage understanding and acceptance among parents, school administrators, and...
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Covenant Communications, Inc
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English
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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...
11) I love myself
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Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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In this picture book, a child who is learning about self-love meets different challenges--like learning to ride a bike and being afraid of the dark--with the help of a cuddly creature representing their inner self.
12) Poetry comics
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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A collection of illustrated poems about everything from new shoes and falling leaves to friendship and growing up.
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English
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Young schoolteacher Andrée Geulen secretly defies the Nazis in Belgium who are forcing Jews to wear a yellow Star of David. Andrée is not Jewish, but she feels a maternal connection to her students, who are living in constant fear, and decides to take action. But what can one woman do against an entire army? Ida Sterno is a Jewish woman who works with the Committee for the Defense of Jews in Belgium, a resistance group tasked with hiding children...
14) Just like Millie
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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When a young girl and her mother move to an apartment in a new city, the girl feels fine on her own. She would rather play by herself than meet new kids at the park or have a playdate with the other children in her building. And when her mom takes her to story time at the bookstore, she breaks down in tears. But things start to change when she meets Millie, a rescue dog who is not too big, not too small. On their daily walks, Millie isn't afraid to...
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