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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy, standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesus-crazy. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother's stories, in the Land of Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal. When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series...
Author
Publisher
Rayo/Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Sumario en español: El texto paralelo en español e inglés presenta a Margaret y Margarita, que se reflejan la una a la otra mientras se peinan, saludan a sus amigos, y hacen otras actividades rutinarias, cada una a su propia manera especial.
Parallel text in Spanish and English portrays Margaret and Margarita, who mirror one another as they fix their hair, greet their friends, and engage in other routine activities, each in her own special way....
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Alfred is a great dog. He's super sweet and he can run really fast. There's just one teeny, tiny thing. Alfred STINKS. His feet stink, his back stinks, his tummy stinks. Alfred's owner, a little boy, loves him and tries everything to help: soaps and incense, perfumes and shampoos. And he finally, finally, gets Alfred clean. But then. the boy kind of misses the stink. And with Alfred carefully avoiding every puddle and constantly brushing his teeth,...
6) Nerdycorn
Author
Language
English
Description
"Meet Fern! She's a smart, creative unicorn who prefers building robots and coding software to jumping through shimmering rainbows and splashing in majestic waterfalls. Even though Fern is a good friend and always willing to help others, the other unicorns tease her and call her a nerdycorn"--
7) Fly flies
Author
Publisher
Cicada Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Fly is happily practicing her flying in the park, doing some wibbles and some wobbles and some waveys. Blackbird, Seagull, Starling and Hawk take turns giving Fly advice about the best way to fly; fly in a straight line, glide on the wind, fly in a flock, dive onto your food ... Fly tries to take their advice on board, but each time finds that this is not HER way to fly. With a sweet, witty twist at the end, this is a delightful book about staying...
Author
Series
Flight school volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Even though his penguin friends would rather swim, Penguin dreams of flying.
Author
Series
Birdie volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When five-year-old Birdie's mother promises to take her to a salon to tame her long, unruly hair, Birdie looks at magazines and consults her friends to find the style that is perfect for her.
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Language
English
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Description
Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider.
14) Maya's treasure
Author
Publisher
Peter Pauper Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Each morning Maya and her sister collect seashells, scrub them to a sparkle, and string them together, but when Alita throws away shells she deems too ugly, Maya, remembering words of her grandmother, turns the clunky shells into a helpful and beautiful wind chime.
Author
Publisher
Manic D Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"A Rule Is To Break: A Child's Guide to Anarchy follows Wild Child as she learns about just being herself and how that translates into kid autonomy. It presents the ideas of challenging societal expectations and tradition and expressing yourself freely in kid-terms that are both funny and thought provoking--it even functions as a guidebook for adults to understand what it is to be a critically thinking, creative individual. Wild Child is the role...
19) You be you
Author
Publisher
Taylor Trade Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After exploring his ocean home and seeing many different types of sea life, a young fish named Adri talks to his parents and learns that differences make the world colorful and beautiful.
20) Nerd camp
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
For ten-year-old Gabe, the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment is all that he dreamed it would be, but he must work hard to write about the fun in letters to Zach, his cool future stepbrother, without revealing that it's a camp for "nerds."
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