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1) Front desk
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Front desk volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Historical [Middle School Readers]
31 Days of APAHM Reads
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Elementary
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31 Days of APAHM Reads
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Mia Tang has a lot of secrets. Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests. Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner, Mr. Yao, finds out they've been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tangs will be doomed. Number 3: She wants to be a writer. But how can she...
2) The dot
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Creatrilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher's encouragement leads her to change her mind.
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Tristan Strong volume 1
Language
English
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10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Fantasy [Middle School Readers]
Black Lives Matter: Elementary Stories
Black Lives Matter: Middle Grade Stories
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Black Lives Matter: Elementary Stories
Black Lives Matter: Middle Grade Stories
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Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month he's going to spend on his grandparents' farm. But on his first night there, a sticky creature shows up and steals Eddie's notebook. Tristan chases after it, and a tug-of-war ensues between them underneath a...
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Princess Academy trilogy volume 1
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English
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While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland.
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English
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"This cookie has never felt like a smart cookie no matter how hard she tries, especially in comparison to all the clever cupcakes and brilliant rolls in the bakery. Will a dash of creativity and a sprinkle of confidence be enough to help her learn that perfect scores and having all the answers aren't the only ingredients for intelligence?"--
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The Unwanteds volume 2
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English
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As the Wanteds, Unwanteds, and Necessaries struggle to adjust to changes in their society, Mr. Today begins training fourteen-year-old Alex to replace him as Artime's leader one day while Alex's disgraced twin, Aaron, connives to take over Quill.
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Nat enough volume 3
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English
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Companion to the New York Times bestseller Nat Enough!
You can stay stuck or go forward, but you can't go back.
Natalie has just arrived at summer camp and soon realizes it isn't anything like the brochure. Instead of spending the summer with her best friends, Zoe and Flo, Natalie is stuck with her ex-BFF, Lily, and someone even more annoying than the endless mosquitoes: Millie Flatbottom. Even worse, she's constantly
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Life of a cactus volume 2
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English
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Just as Aven starts to feel comfortable in Stagecoach Pass, with her friends and schoolmates accustomed to her lack of "armage," everything changes once again. She's about to begin high school . . . with 3,000 new kids to stare at her. And no matter how much Aven tries to play it cool, nothing prepares her for the reality. In a year filled with confusion, humiliation, and just maybe love, can Aven manage to stay true to herself? -- from Amazon.
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Elinor is used to doing very well in school, but as Poem in Your Pocket Day approaches, bringing an opportunity to meet a real poet, her struggle to write a perfect poem causes Elinor's confidence to falter, despite Mr. Tiffin's guidance and reassurance.
Learn devices used to create different kinds of poems such as simile, metaphors, haiku, acrostics, and more.
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Nat enough volume 2
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Companion to the New York Times bestseller Nat Enough!
It's called a crush for a reason...For the first time in her life, Natalie feels confident. Her talents are being recognized, she has supportive friends, and she's spending a ton of time with her crush, Derek! But when Derek tells Natalie that he just wants to be friends, Natalie's self-confidence quickly changes to self-doubt. As she tries to recover from her broken heart, Natalie...13) Ish
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Creatrilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Ramon loved to draw. Anytime. Anything. Anywhere. Drawing is what Ramon does. It¹s what makes him happy. But in one split second, all that changes. A single reckless remark by Ramon's older brother, Leon, turns Ramon's carefree sketches into joyless struggles. Luckily for Ramon, though, his little sister, Marisol, sees the world differently. She opens his eyes to something a lot more valuable than getting things just "right." Combining the spareness...
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English
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Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices with Marley Dias
Coretta Scott King Award Winners
Three, Four Tell Me More: Sparkle and Shine
Coretta Scott King Award Winners
Three, Four Tell Me More: Sparkle and Shine
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American Ballet Theater soloist Misty Copeland encourages a young ballet student, with brown skin like her own, by telling her that she, too, had to learn basic steps and how to be graceful when she was starting out, and that some day, with practice and dedication, the little girl will become a firebird, too. Includes author's note about dancers who led her to find her voice.
15) Starfish
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English
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Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
For Fans of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Novels in Verse: Middle Grade
Titles Worth Trying: Realistic Fiction [Grades 3-5]
For Fans of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Novels in Verse: Middle Grade
Titles Worth Trying: Realistic Fiction [Grades 3-5]
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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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Just Grace volume 6
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English
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Eight-year-old Grace is excited to learn that her best friend, Mimi, is going to become an older sister, but when both try to be "mother's helpers" for a family renting a house on their street, little Lily likes Grace best, causing Mimi to doubt herself and Grace to form a plan to fix things.
18) Palace of stone
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Princess Academy trilogy volume 2
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English
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Miri returns to Asland and calls upon all of her knowledge of rhetoric and other useful lessons learned at the Princess Academy when she and the other girls face strong opposition while working for a new, fair charter.
19) One green apple
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Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
While on a school field trip to an orchard to make cider, a young immigrant named Farah gains self-confidence when the green apple she picks perfectly complements the other students' red apples.
20) Peterrific
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Peter, Pinkalicious's brother, loves to build with his blocks. He decides to build a tower out of blocks high enough to reach the stars and the moon all by himself. But once he's up there, he realizes that he's all alone and he has no way of getting down easily.
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