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"Bob Comet is a retired librarian, isolated but not lonely, living out his quiet days in a mint-colored house in Oregon, surrounded by his books and small comforts. One morning, out on his daily walk, he performs an act of kindness that brings him into contact with a nearby senior center, where he soon begins volunteering. Here, as a community of peers and friends gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from...
2) Release
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 750L
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English
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Struggling with his family's religious beliefs, an employer's inappropriate advances, and his unrequited love for his ex, Adam finds his life complicated when his best friend announces she's doing her senior year abroad.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 50
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
670L
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English
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Dawn tries to give herself a new image by changing her hair, makeup, clothes, and personality, but then she worries about whether her friends and her pen pal Lewis will like the new Dawn.
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English
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"Secretly hooking up with popular cheerleader Karla Ortega, who repeatedly snubs him in public, multicultural geek and nerd club member Cameron Carson meets Mackenzie Briggs, who isn't afraid to be herself, and unexpectedly bonds with this girl who accepts him for who he is"--
5) We belong
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AD 540L
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English
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"Explore and celebrate who you are and who others are too! Rhyming verse by Laura Purdie Salas invites others to notice the diversity of our world and affirm that we all belong, just as we are. Bright illustrations by Carlos Vélez Aquilera feature a diverse group of children, playing and learning in an urban setting"--
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English
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Sable has everything and her bestselling novels have made her a star. But she has a past she is desperate to hide. Elly is an intellectual who has hidden herself within the walls of academia, afraid to admit she is tired of being alone. Barbara Ann is the talent behind twenty-six romance novels, but she's lost control of her career and her family. Beth's popular mysteries have become the only way she can fight against the secret tyranny of an abusive...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Follows thirteen-year-old neurodivergent Maudie during an eventful summer in California with her father, where she struggles with whether to share a terrible secret about life with her mom and stepdad.
"Maudie McGinn has a secret. It's a big, scary one. And right before Maudie, who's autistic, travels to spend the summer with her dad, her mom makes her promise not to reveal it. As Mom puts it: "A promise is a promise, and must be kept." When a wildfire...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
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Homeschooled by her mechanic-environmentalist father, eleven-year-old Rachel "Ratchet" Vance records her efforts to make friends, save a park, remember her mother, and find her own definition of "normal."
11) Falfoul's Trunk
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English
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This charming illustrated story helps the reader discover how everyone is important and how something that seems to have no purpose for someone, can in fact be essential to others.
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AD 810L
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English
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Rink is a very unusual boy who grows beautiful flowers all over his body whenever the moon is full. Rink and his family are treated as outcasts even though no one knows his strange botanical secret. But one day a new girl arrives at school, and Rink discovers she has some unique qualities of her own. Illustrator Steve Adams' rich, textured artwork gives this tale of individuality bottomless depth and appeal.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Torn between devotion for and jealousy of her beautiful and much-admired invalid sister, twelve-year-old Caroline's drab self-image begins to change when she meets the glamorous Lillina MacGregor who makes her feel important.
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English
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Feeling like they're different from others can sometimes be difficult for children. Sticking out because they're tall, or short, or simply have a different hair color can feel like a burden, but it shouldn't. This colorful illustrated non-fiction title shows readers how being different is not only not a bad thing, it makes them unique and special.
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Leading a double life as Sabrina, a funny-girl alter-ego that frees her to explore who she really is and what she really wants, teen stand-up comic Gretchen is torn between two boys as she learns to be her truest self.
Gretchen feels as if she's living out every trope from her favorite rom-coms. The Best Friend Crush: it is suddenly hard to act normal around her childhood BFF, Samuel. Makeover: Black leather pants and some red lipstick are apparently...
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English
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The majority of our joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks relate to people, beginning first with ourselves and then the people we came from, married, birthed, live by, live for, go to church with, don't like, don't understand, fear, struggle with, compare ourselves to, and judge. People are the best and worst thing about the human life. Jen Hatmaker knows this all too well, and so she reveals how to practice kindness, grace, truthfulness, vision,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Billy Plimpton wants to be a famous comedian when he grows up but his stutter is getting in the way, and right now he is so worried about being made fun of by the kids in his new school that he plans on not talking at all. But the plan backfires because his persistent silence only draws attention of the school bully--and Billy realizes that he needs another plan, one that does not depend on him speaking without a stutter.
18) Baby bird
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English
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"'All birds are born to fly,' thinks Baby Bird, watching the other hatchlings leave the nest. "I suppose it's now or never..." But one of Baby's wings is twisted and shrunken and not at all like the other one. Instead of flying, Baby plummets to the ground. There, Baby makes a new friend, and learns that sometimes you have to find unexpected ways to achieve your dreams. A moving story about the power of friendship and the importance of accepting yourself...
20) Lana llama
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Lana the llama lives in the farmyard with all of her sheep friends. She loves being part of their flock, but she knows that she doesn't fit in--her legs and neck are much too long, and her 'baa' is very baaad. Lana does her best to look like the other sheep, until one day a bully arrives, and Lana has to stand up for herself and her friends.
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