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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE
The elegant and compelling novel about a Pakistani man's abandonment of his high-flying life in New York—an extraordinary portrait of a divided and yet ultimately indivisible world in America post-9/11.
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. He begins...
SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE
The elegant and compelling novel about a Pakistani man's abandonment of his high-flying life in New York—an extraordinary portrait of a divided and yet ultimately indivisible world in America post-9/11.
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. He begins...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
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When he stumbles upon Ricky, a young Navajo man, beaten and dying in the newly fallen snow, part-time history professor Ben Bailey questions everything in his life, including his relationship with his fiancée Sara, and decides to discover the truth about Ricky's death.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
7) Noni says no
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Noni can do many things. But she can't say no. Find what happens that causes Noni to finally stand up for herself.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.
Author
Series
Clementine volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eight-year-old Clementine, convinced that she has no talents, tries to find a way to avoid participating in the class talent show.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's a commonplace to say that we each tell stories about ourselves, trying to shape how others perceive us, and how we perceive ourselves. And the commonplace is true, as far as it goes--which isn't very far at all. As neuroscientist Gregory Berns shows in The Self Delusion, you, I, we don't just tell stories about ourselves. We are the stories--there's no stable personality to tell stories about. What's more, the stories are, for the most part,...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience presents a tour of human consciousness using new experimental evidence and details ways to communicate with patients previously deemed unconscious and promising new methods of coping with brain damage and disease.
Author
Series
Doll people volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Annabelle and Tiffany, dolls who are best friends living in the Palmer house, have an adventure when they hide in Kate Palmer's backpack, are carried to school, mistakenly go to another house, and try to stop Princess Mimi, a doll who threatens all dollkind.
14) UglyDolls
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The free-spirited UglyDolls learn what it means to be different and struggle with a desire to be loved and accepted.
15) Indigo
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When her mother dies, Martha is so unhappy living in the dried-up town of Oak Grove, that she convinces two unusual brothers who long to return to the ocean to run away with her.
16) Dino duckling
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this fun and endearing celebration of differences, a dinosaur finds a home with a family of ducks--a fresh twist on the beloved "The Ugly Duckling" tale.Even as an egg, Dino Duckling is different from all the other baby ducks. And when he's born, no one seems to notice that he's actually a dinosaur! Mama Duck knows that there is plenty of room for difference in a loving family, but there's one big problem: How will Dino Duckling fly south for the...
18) Frogged
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
When almost-thirteen-year-old Princess Imogene is turned into a frog, she puts into practice lessons from the book, "The Art of Being a Princess," as she tries to become her less-than-perfect self again.
One should be able to say of a princess “She was as good as she was beautiful,” according to The Art of Being a Princess (third revised edition), which the almost-thirteen-year-old Princess Imogene is supposed to be reading. Not feeling particularly...
Author
Publisher
Sparrowhawk Pub
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This new edition of the source book for the whole Radical Honest movement includes Brad Blanton's accumulated observations since 1994 of those people whose lives have been transformed by getting out of the self-made jails of their minds, and into the truth they have always known.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told through a series of larger-than-life snapshots, Fat Girl Walking is a hilarious memoir in essays about love, sex, marriage, motherhood, bikinis, and loving your body, no matter what size you are, from the acclaimed blogger and body image advocate. Brittany Gibbons has been a plus size her whole life. But instead of hiding herself in the shadows of thinner women, Brittany became a wildly popular blogger and national spokesmodel -- known for stripping...
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