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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
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English
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Life throws us many challenges, often without warning. Learn ways to recognize, reflect on, and communicate your feelings, ask for help, and lend help to friends and family members with this thoughtful series.
2) The self-esteem workbook for teens: activities to help you build confidence and achieve your goals
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For teens, confidence is key! This fully revised and updated edition of The Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens has everything you need to boost self-confidence, improve your social skills, balance social media use, and reach your goals.
As a teen, it is incredibly important to have self-confidence, especially when you consider all the societal pressures teens face today, particularly about appearance and grades. Growing up in today's world is difficult,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Lena Wise is always looking forward to tomorrow, especially at the start of her senior year. She's ready to pack in as much friend time as possible, to finish college applications and to maybe let her childhood best friend Sebastian know how she really feels about him. For Lena, the upcoming year is going to be epic--one of opportunities and chances. Until one choice, one moment, destroys everything. Now Lena isn't looking forward to tomorrow. Not...
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Riverbend friends volume 1
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English
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"Tessa has lived a trouble-free life as the only child of two loving parents--she is well-liked, gets straight As, is on the competitive swim team, and is active in her church youth group. It's a pretty perfect life! That is, until she comes home from swim practice one day to find that her parents are divorcing. Along with that, her BFF has moved to Florida, and Tessa gets stuck in Intro to Drama--possibly the worst class ever! Soon Tessa's mom sinks...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
760L
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English
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"Ella has everything she needs to take seventh grade by storm, including the perfect new best friend. She's still not 100% sure why Morgan has chosen Ella to be her newest sidekick, but Ella knows better than to turn down the attention...even if it means leaving her former best friend, Sophie, behind. But life as Morgan's best friend is trickier than Ella imagined. Everything has to be perfect, from their on-brand selfies to the videos they record...
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Scrub series volume 4
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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In this fourth and final book in the Scrubs series, Dan, the quotable man, struggles with his own "scrub-ness" as he questions the basics of his beliefs about what it takes to be a winner.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Body Image and the Media provides a balanced look at a hot-button topic. Explore the pros and cons of the idealized portrayal of people in different types of media, what effects this has on a boy's or girl's body image, the dangers of a negative body image, and what people do to change their bodies (including eating disorders and cosmetic surgery), as well as the influence of parents and peers on a person's body image. Full-color photos, a glossary,...
11) James cheats!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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James resents having to repeat the sixth grade in a class which includes his younger cousin Greg, so he turns to cheating to keep up with the work.
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English
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Seventh grade is almost over. Cassie feels like she's somehow managed to survive the worst of it, but as the end draws near and she's faced with awkward social situations and embarrassing family moments, she realizes she's going to need to be much stronger if she's going to make it to eighth grade.
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Seventh grade was the year Cassandra lost it all: her crush, her social status, and her best friend.This year she's taking it back. Starting with summer camp, where she intends to employ her new queen bee skills and become the most popular girl in the woods.There's just one thorn in her side, and it comes in the shape of her elementary school friend: Riley. Will she shake Riley off for good or find another way to become Queen Bee?
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Sophie Hartley books volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
650L
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English
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"Sophie, 10, doesn't want to turn into a moody teenager like her older brother and sister, and she certainly doesn't want to see The Movie (about gross adolescent body changes) at school. On the other hand, she doesn't want to be considered immature by her classmates"-- Provided by publisher.
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Lizard Flanagan is stunned when she is chosen as a model for the local fashion show - this tomboy in a dress has her work cut out for her. When Lizard Flanagan finds out about a trip to Wrigley Field to see the Chicago Cubs play - for only fifty dollars - she is thrilled. It's her big chance to see her favorite team in action! But how is she supposed to come up with fifty dollars before the trip? Lizard couldn't care less about the local teen fashion...
17) Easy Avenue
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In his first year in high school, Hubbo O'Driscoll is torn between his poor but fun friends and the shallow but rich kids. In this novel based on Great Expectations, Brian Doyle does a brilliant job of dealing with the issue of class and all its implications. Poverty, social climbing and the connotations of each are presented through the classic Doyle blend of humor and gravity.
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This is the story of a boy named Dego, written by a man called DeGreg; the story of a classic middle class middle child, a baby, then a boy, trying hard to become a man, and f-ing it up along the way. Growing up across the river from New York City has a certain affect on a Jersey boy, though we have no idea what that might be. The fun of it is, it doesn't matter where you grew up, you'll see yourself in these stories. You'll be running through the...
19) Target
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
690L
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English
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When seventeen-year-old Frankie Skinaway's incarcerated father and cousins try to get him involved in the First Nations Mafia, even after his mother enrolls Frankie in an alternative high school to keep him safe, Frankie has a hard choice to make.
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In her first year of middle school, tomboy Lizard Flanagan feels left out - her friends are growing up, but all Lizard wants is to stay the same. Twelve-year-old Lizard Flanagan can't believe it when her best friend, Mary Ann, wears a skirt on their first day of middle school. What happened to shorts and dirty sneakers? Suddenly Mary Ann is starting to look and talk like those girly girls she and Lizard always made fun of in elementary school. What's...
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