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41) Wash Day
Author
Publisher
Mayo Clinic Press Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Jelaya (jeh-LAY-uh.) She hates wash day. The tugs! The scrubs! The pinching and pulling! Jelaya can't think of a worse way to spend the day. That is, until her big sister Jazmin explains that this wash day will be different. Jelaya is going to wash Jazmin's hair instead! Wash Day is a sweet and honest exploration of the beauty and tradition of wash days. Offering gentle guidance and framing the all-day affair as an act of self-care, this...
42) Hunted
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Though Yeva grew up with the city's highest aristocrats, far from her father's old lodge, she knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who's ever come close to discovering them. So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. Out in the wilderness, there's no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas...or to submit to marrying...
43) Black Girls
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A joyful love letter to every Black girl everywhere. In an upbeat and rhythmic ode, Dominique Furukawa and Erika Lynne Jones celebrate Black girls in all their beauty and joy. Black Girls uplifts girls of every shade, size, and walk of life, reminding them that they are perfectly designed. Whimsical, earnest, charming, full, bright, and beautiful, this picture book anthem deftly explores the diversity of Black girlhood. Black girls, Black girls,...
44) Pretty ugly
Author
Series
Publisher
TOON Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In this hilarious illustrated fable, Anna Van Ogre loses her lovely monstrous looks and is turned into a sickeningly adorable, rosy-cheeked little girl. It starts her on a journey to learn an unforgettable lesson about true beauty"--
"A hilariously quirky monster tale about appreciating beauty—in all its weird and wonderful forms!— by the creator of the iconic Olivia books and bestselling humorist David Sedaris. Sedaris and Falconer make a...
Author
Series
Belles (Dhonielle Clayton) volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Rebellious and outspoken Edel Beauregard enters the Beauty Trials--a deadly competition to find the next Queen of Orleans.
In this all-new novel from the world of Dhonielle Clayton’s sweeping, lush Belles series, rebellious, outspoken, fan-favorite Edel Beauregard enters the Beauty Trials―a deadly competition to find the next Queen of Orléans. Sophia, the dangerous and erratic former queen, has been imprisoned, restoring peace to Orléans....
46) Beastly
Author
Series
Kendra chronicles volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Presents a modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.
With a new Beauty and the Beast movie hitting theaters in spring 2017, its time to catch up on all things Beastly. Find out what it was like for the beast in Alex Flinn's contemporary retelling of the classic tale. I am a beast....
Author
Series
Publisher
NorthSouth Books Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The first book in the New York Times bestselling Rainbow Fish series. The rainbow fish with its iridescent scales is the most beautiful fish in the whole ocean. But since he is also vain and proud, he becomes more and more lonely over time. Then he realizes that you can’t win friends through beauty. He overcomes his pride and begins to distribute his glitter scales to the other fish. Eye-catching foil stamping, glittering on every page, offers...
48) The rainbow fish
Author
Series
Rainbow Fish (Picture books) volume 1
Publisher
North-South Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
The most beautiful fish in the entire ocean discovers the real value of personal beauty and friendship.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Annie, younger sister of the princess who would be known as Sleeping Beauty, is immune to magic and stays awake when the rest of the castle falls into an enchanted sleep, then sets out to find a way to break the spell.
52) How beautiful
Author
Publisher
Greystone Kids, Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A caterpillar lives a simple life on his leaf until one day, an UnKnown Thing picks him up and calls him beautiful. A question forms in the caterpillar's mind: What is beautiful? So begins a quest to discover the true meaning of the word beautiful. Much to the caterpillar's surprise, each animal in the forest has their own unique definition"--
54) Only ever yours
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Where women are created for the pleasure of men, beauty is the first duty of every girl. In Louise O'Neill's world of Only Every Yours women are no longer born naturally, girls (called "eves") are raised in Schools and trained in the arts of pleasing men until they come of age. Freida and Isabel are best friends. Now, aged sixteen and in their final year, they expect to be selected as companions--wives to powerful men. All they have to do is ensure...
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