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2) Snow day
Author
Series
Jo Jo volume 3
Language
English
Description
Jo Jo Makoons has noticed that the family members she loves most--Mama, Kokum, and even her cat, Mimi--all have their own ways of being healthy. So when Teacher says that their class will be learning about healthy habits, Jo Jo is ready to be neighborly by helping everyone around her be healthy too. After a snowstorm shuts down her Ojibwe reservation, Jo Jo uses her big imagination and big personality to help both Elders and classmates alike. Because...
4) Tricks
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A chronically frustrated eleven-year-old girl named Gwendolyn Rogers comes to realize she has an undiagnosed mental health issue and tries every way possible to get control of her emotions"--
"No one can figure out what Gwendolyn Rogers’s problem is—not her mom, or her teachers, or any of the many therapists she’s seen. But Gwendolyn knows she doesn’t have just one thing wrong with her: she has fifty-four. At least, according to a confidential...
Author
Series
Miss Fox's class volume 4
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When Miss Fox realizes that her students do not have healthy habits, she teaches them that healthful living is fun and rewarding, which they find to be true on Field Day.
7) Losing it
Author
Publisher
Amazon Children's Publishing
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Tired of being obese and reeling from his father's recent stroke, thirteen-year-old Bennett joins the cross country team to find out if there is more to life than french fries.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
When hospitalized for her clinical depression, Whimsy connects with a boy named Faerry, who also suffers from the traumatic loss of a sibling, and together they work to unearth buried memories and battle the fantastical physical embodiment of their depression.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When five kids visit a farm, they are full of questions about their favorite foods: Why are so many vegetables green? What's the difference between brown bread and white bread? Why do beans make you gassy? The answers may surprise you and help you choose foods that will keep you strong and healthy told through playful poems and common questions.
12) Shadow
Author
Publisher
Lantana Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In our old house, Ma told me there was nothing to be scared of. No monsters hiding behind doors, or in wardrobes, or under beds. She said there were no dark places at all. But in the new house, under my new bed, that's where I found Shadow. --from Amazon.
13) The big hug
Author
Publisher
Pow!
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"On opposite sides of a quiet street lived two friends. From morning to evening, they played. You two are stuck together like glue!...So it was a shock when, one day, they had to stop and go inside...Where can you put friendship when friends are apart? Slowly, they learned. They found that, across the street and through windows, they could give each other a hug. They discovered that a smile is a hug. A wave is a hug"--
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A small boy creates a shelter for his sadness so that he can visit it whenever he needs to, and the two of them can cry, talk, or just sit. The boy knows that one day his sadness may come out of the shelter, and together they will look out at the world and see how beautiful it is.
16) Front country
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Eighth grader Ginny Shepard attempts to ground herself after realizing that the world is apathetic to the very real, very urgent realities of climate change, and reckoning with her own feelings of guilt and impotence.
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a young child whose spirit of adventure is dampened when the day ends and gives way to night. Taking their wheelbarrow, they set out on a mission to stop the sun from setting again, joined along the way by a charming collection of animal friends. But when darkness falls again and worst comes to worst, it is hope that eventually carries them home, where they see the dawn breaking again. -- Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Jill's nonno has a funny way with words. On their weekly walks together, Jill can always depend on his silly turns of phrase: "Hummingbird!" says Jill. "Sugar-drinker!" says Nonno. "Seaplane!" says Jill. "I DO see a plane!" says Nonno. But lately, Nonno is acting different. Worst of all, he seems to have lost his words. So Jill comes up with a unique way to help him find them."--
20) In the ring
Author
Publisher
The Little Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Atlanta has a fight club. And I'm standing in the middle of it. When Rose's therapist recommends she join a boxing gym to cope with her anxiety, she finds herself sucked into an underground fight club and the charms of its ringleader. Will the fight world unravel her already fragile mental state or will it unearth a strength she never knew she had? A gritty, raw, and binge-worthy, young adult romance about a queer teen with anxiety who literally...
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