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1) The bad seed
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Publisher
Harper, an imrpint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The bad seed changes his mind about being bad and decides that he wants to be happy.
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Pub. Date
2019
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IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Everyone knows the cool beans. They're sooooo cool. And then there's the uncool has-bean . . . Always on the sidelines, one bean unsuccessfully tries everything he can to fit in with the crowd--until one day the cool beans show him how it's done.
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IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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While visiting the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina, eleven-year-old Nickie makes some decisions about how to identify both good and evil when she witnesses the townspeople's reactions to the apocalyptic visions of one of their neighbors.
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Pub. Date
2015
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English
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"Coming September 22nd From the worldwide bestselling author of Eat Pray Love: the path to the vibrant, fulfilling life you've dreamed of. Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert's books for years. Now this beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With profound empathy and radiant generosity, she offers potent insights...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The Tipping Point) aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers-to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them," in other words: to understand how to balance trust and safety. He uses a variety of examples from history and recent headlines...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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Language
English
Description
Moral development in children - theories, stages, impact - How do people develop morals? What helps children distinguish right from wrong? Explore the topic of moral development and how it impacts children's behavior. Examine the approaches of development theorists and learn about Theory of Mind. Hear children's reactions to situations that challenge their morals. Expert interviews help explain how and why children develop as they do as well as stress...
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IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
As their lives take them in different directions, Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget discover many more things about themselves and the importance of their relationship with each other.
9) City spies
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Sara Martinez is facing years in the juvenile detention system for hacking into the foster care computer system to prove that her foster parents are crooks. But then she gets a second chance when a mysterious man offers her a chance to join a group of MI6 affiliated spies"--
10) Wish
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"A story about a girl who, with the help of the dog of her dreams, discovers that family doesn't always have to be related--they are simply people who love you for who you are"--
11) Princess lessons
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Princess Mia from "The Princess Diaries" offers advice on inner and outer beauty, character development, etiquette, and dating.
15) Amal unbound
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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In Pakistan, Amal holds onto her dream of being a teacher even after becoming an indentured servant to pay off her family's debt to the wealthy and corrupt Khan family.
17) Long way down
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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There are three rules in the neighborhood: Don't cry ; Don't snitch ; Get revenge. Will takes his dead brother Shawn's gun, and gets in the elevator on the 7th floor. As the elevator stops on each floor, someone connected to Shawn gets on. Someone already dead. Dead by teenage gun violence. And each has something to share with Will.
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"We live in an interesting time. Materially, everything is the best it's ever been--we are freer, healthier and wealthier than any people in human history. Yet, somehow everything seems to be irreparably and horribly fucked--the planet is warming, governments are failing, economies are collapsing, and everyone is perpetually offended on Twitter. At this moment in history, when we have access to technology, education and communication our ancestors...
19) Flipped
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IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.
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Publisher
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Pub. Date
2016
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Language
English
Description
In Becoming Wise, Tippett distills the insights she has gleaned from her public radio program and podcast "On Being." This book offers a grounded and fiercely hopeful vision of humanity for this century--of personal growth but also renewed public life and human spiritual evolution.
Tippett has interviewed the most extraordinary voices examining the great questions of meaning for our time. Here, she distills the insights she has gleaned from these...
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