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1) Patience
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Patience is the key to a happy life.
Patience can make the difference between worry and tranquillity.
Patience is love, joy, good and surprising.
But is Patience more than just an emotion and a skill?
A fun and reassuring story about exploring Patience as a child's best friend.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 118
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Kristy's newest sitting job is challenging. Ten-year-old Erin was recently blinded in an accident and is not ready to rely on people. At the same time, Kristy's family is training a puppy to be a guide dog.
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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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Do you dream about traveling the world and learning about other people? Being a sports star? Helping others? Riding a dinosaur? Whatever inspires you, you can make it happen! Brave, Bold YOU! is a story to encourage children of all ages to believe in themselves and dream big dreams. Readers are taken on a journey of discovery, self-love, and compassion. By teaching resilience, kindness, and bravery, this book empowers all audiences to find their courage,...
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From fourteen-year-old author Brayden Harrington, the young boy who electrified the nation when he spoke at the Democratic National Convention in 2020, comes a fictional middle grade contemporary story about a boy named Jayson who stutters and the challenges he faces and the obstacles he must overcome as he campaigns for student-body president.
Eighth grader Jayson Linden has had a stutter his whole life. Though his fellow classmates can sometimes...
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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.She's determined not to let anything keep her from joining the in-crowd and becoming the It Girl. Even if it means changing her hair, her clothes, the way she walks, and who she talks to.It's exhausting work. But Cassie wants to be someone different. So drastic measures are necessary.Except will anyone like the new Cassie?...
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The Unlikely Astronaut is the true story of how Astronaut Susan Kilrain overcame all obstacles to achieve her dream of flying in space when no American woman had. As one of only three women and the youngest to ever pilot the space shuttle, her story of unwavering determination will encourage children to reach for the stars even if the odds are against them. Commander Susan Kilrain is a renowned astronaut, a distinguished navy test pilot and aerospace...
9) City Girls
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What Elisa, Lucia, and Alice see-and judge-of each other from the outside is drastically different from how each girl feels inside. They attend the same classes in the same New York City middle school, but no one knows that Elisa is trying to navigate the
10) Play It Again
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From the files of Madison Finn volume 3
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When Far Hills Junior High puts on a play, can Madison survive the drama? The seventh grade gets stage fever when Far Hills Junior High decides to perform the musical The Wiz. Since Madison doesn't sing or dance, stage manager seems like the perfect role for her-until she begins to feel left out from all the cast action. Worst of all, her two best friends are partnering up with their nemesis, Ivy, both in and out of rehearsal. The play is bringing...
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From the files of Madison Finn volume 4
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Forget ghosts-this Halloween, seventh grade is frightening enough For Madison and her friends, the Halloween season is full of activity. There are ghost stories in English class, a big costume dance, and a scary-story contest on Madison's favorite website. No wonder everyone has Halloween fever! But Madison still needs to find a costume to wear that doesn't seem too babyish. And what if she looks stupid dancing in front of everyone? No matter what,...
12) Do Not Watch
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Having spent much of his childhood snooping around an antique store owned by his father, Sam Valentine is no stranger to encountering eerie objects. When he comes across an old VHS tape in the desk of a late horror movie director, Sam is curious. The label reads: DO NOT WATCH. But for Sam and his best friends, Olivia and Bashiir, the temptation is too great. Soon after watching it, strange things begin to happen - unexplained sicknesses and dreams...
13) Fade to Black
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Mila Chun wishes she knew what to say to the boy she likes, but she's too shy. So when her best friend, Junie Weid, hands her a script detailing how to converse with him, Mila is relieved. However, it doesn't take long before Mila feels like she's acting in a TV show and decides to ditch her lines. After abandoning the script, Mila experiences strange things. Flashes of light and people laughing in the background, big chunks of her time that go unaccounted...
14) Chasing Stars
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Growing up comes with growing pains no matter what, but for twelve-year-old Libby, the changes feel like more than she can bear.
After an incident caused by his worsening dementia, Libby's grandfather comes to live with her family, a move that ripples out into other changes. Libby's dad quits his job to become the grandfather's primary caretaker, while her mom picks up the financial slack by working extra shifts. Meanwhile, Libby's older sister...
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Set in a scenic English town, let S. H. Miah take you on a dazzling coming of age journey. Adil is twelve years old. Loves comics, loves games, loves hanging out with friends. Typical London boy stuff. When his mother decides on a sudden trip back home to Bangladesh, Adil is dumped onto the shores of Blueridge, a town in England's south, to live with the man Adil has hated his entire life-his father. As Adil makes new friends in the town and joins...
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Batavia, Dutch East Indies, 1942.
Emmy has the voice of an angel but hasn't sung a note since her mother's tragic death. Instead, Emmy's primary concerns are to enjoy adventures with her Javanese friend, Bakti; to avoid interacting with her snooty Dutch classmate, Violet; and to convince her father to let her stay in Batavia instead of shipping her off to singing school in England. Then the Japanese army invades Batavia-and as war erupts in the Dutch...
18) Only the Lonely
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From the files of Madison Finn volume 1
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Summer ends too fast when you're dreading junior high Twelve-year-old Madison Finn is allergic to change. Her two best friends are away at camp and Madison is not sure she's going to survive the summer, let alone the beginning of junior high. Good thing she has a new laptop, which she uses to write and store all of her thoughts on friendship, her parents' divorce, and her fear of being called a loser for not liking sushi! At first, change seems like...
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Fex can't resist a double dare-even if it means double trouble Eleven-year-old Fex O'Toole can't say no to a double dare-even when it means trouble with his friends and the principal. But when the same kids who like to test Fex dare a four-year-old to jump into a river, Fex realizes the cost of not being able to say no.
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"This beautiful, intergenerational coming-of-age story about families, secrets, and self-discovery will stay with you long after you finish reading it."-Gail Lerner, author of The Big Dreams of Small Creatures
"A deeply resonant story of finding your own song through the noise of everyone else's expectations."-Jimmy Matejek-Morris, author of My Ex-Imaginary Friend and Forsooth
"The Color of Sound is the perfect summer read, sure to become a perennial...