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2) Stargirl
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In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
5) Fancy Nancy
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A young girl who loves fancy things helps her family to be fancy for one special night.
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Diversity Equity and Inclusion - Youth
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Kindergarten
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Hispanic & Latino Authors: Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Kindergarten
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Sonia and her friends plant a garden, and each one contributes in his or her own special way, in a book that celebrates the many differences among humans.
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Back to School Reads (Picturebooks)
Black Authors: Board and Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
BPL Find Your Voice 2023
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Black Authors: Board and Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
BPL Find Your Voice 2023
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Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider.
There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you. There are lots of reasons to feel different. Maybe it's how you look or talk, or where you're from. Maybe it's what you eat or something just as random. Whatever it is, it's not easy to...
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"The extraordinary tale of one bold wombat's adventure to find her parents and save her kingdom following an attack by a viscious group of swamp rats and a Tasmanian devil. Lola Budge isn't your average bare-nosed wombat. While her parents and neighbors in the Northern Forest want nothing more than peace and quiet, Lola loves to talk. Bored by the quiet routine of wombat life, Lola desperately wants something, anything, interesting to happen. But...
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Ellie Engle volume 1
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As twelve-year-old Ellie Engle navigates seventh grade and her changing relationship with her best friend, a freak accident occurs and gives Ellie the ability to bring things back to life through touch.
11) A summer to die
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Thirteen-year-old Meg's envy of her sister's beauty and popularity makes it difficult to cope with Molly's strange illness and eventual death.
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AMPL National Hispanic Heritage
2024 Caudill List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
Back to School (kids)
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2024 Caudill List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
Back to School (kids)
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"There are no shortcuts to surviving your first day at a new school--you can't fix it with duct tape like you would your Chuck Taylors. On Day One, twelve-year-old Malú (María Luisa, if you want to annoy her) inadvertently upsets Posada Middle School's queen bee, violates the school's dress code with her punk rock look, and disappoints her college-professor mom in the process. Her dad, who now lives a thousand miles away, says things will get better...
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Tacky the penguin books volume 1
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Tacky the penguin does not fit in with his sleek and graceful companions, but his odd behavior comes in handy when hunters come with maps and traps. On board pages.
Tacky the penguin does not fit in with his sleek and graceful companions, but his odd behavior comes in handy when hunters come with maps and traps.
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Piper McCloud volume 1
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You just can't keep a good girl down... unless you use the proper methods. Piper McCloud can fly. Just like that. Easy as pie. Sure, she hasn't mastered reverse propulsion and her turns are kind of sloppy, but she's real good at loop-the-loops. Problem is, the good folk of Lowland County are afraid of Piper. And her ma's at her wit's end. So it seems only fitting that she leave her parents' farm to attend a top-secret, maximum-security school for...
15) Under my hijab
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AANHPI Authors: Board & Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Arab American Heritage Month
Arab American Heritage Month (kids)
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Arab American Heritage Month
Arab American Heritage Month (kids)
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As a young girl observes that each of six women in her life wears her hijab and hair in a different way, she considers how to express her own style one day.
16) Stand tall
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Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school.
17) Purplicious
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Pinkalicious volume 2
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English
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BPL Find Your Voice 2023
Bullying Awareness Month (kids)
OBD Find Your Voice! Summer Reading 2023 - YOUTH
Bullying Awareness Month (kids)
OBD Find Your Voice! Summer Reading 2023 - YOUTH
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When her classmates make fun of her for still liking the color pink, a little girl feels all alone, but then a friend shows her the power of pink.
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"Nikki and her bandmates are looking forward to an AWESOME summer on tour as the opening act for the world famous Bad Boyz! Nikki is a little worried when her frenemy, MacKenzie Hollister, weasels her way into a social media intern position with the tour. But she has a total MELTDOWN when she learns that MacKenzie is her new roommate! Will Nikki survive her dream tour as it quickly goes from AWESOME to AWFUL?!" --
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Hope (Alyssa Milano) volume 1
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English
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Hope Roberts is a confident eleven-year-old girl who plans to be an astrophysicist, and who loves swimming, Galaxy Girl comic books, her best friend Sam, and her two rescue dogs (not necessarily in that order); but then she starts middle school, and suddenly she cannot seem to do anything right--even science club is a problem because she and another girl, Camilla, get stuck with the boring part of the science project that they suggested, but Hope...
20) Spoon
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Spoon's always been a happy little utensil. But lately, he feels like life as a spoon just isn't cutting it. He thinks Fork, Knife, and The Chopsticks all have it so much better than him. But do they? And what do they think about Spoon?
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