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Bullying Awareness Month (kids)
K&T - National Poetry Month
OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
OBD Novels in Verse - YOUTH
K&T - National Poetry Month
OBD National Poetry Month (April) - YOUTH
OBD Novels in Verse - YOUTH
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A novel in verse about Kevin's journey from bully to being bullied, as he learns about friendship, family, and his talent for poetry.
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#ActuallyAutistic Creators for Autism Acceptance Month
2023 Bluestem Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
2024 Autism Acceptance Month Booklist
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2023 Bluestem Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
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Ever since Ms. Murphy told us about the witch trials that happened centuries ago right here in Juniper, I can't stop thinking about them. Those people weren't magic. They were like me. Different like me. I'm autistic. I see things that others do not. I hear sounds that they can ignore. And sometimes I feel things all at once. I think about the witches, with no one to speak for them. Not everyone in our small town understands. But if I keep trying,...
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Eddie Red undercover volume 1
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"Sixth grader Edmund Xavier Lonnrot, codename "Eddie Red," has a photographic memory and talent for drawing anything he sees. When the NYPD is stumped by a mastermind art thief, Eddie becomes their secret weapon to solve the case"--
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Alec, a sixth-grade bookworm always in trouble for reading instead of listening and participating in class, starts a book club, solely to have a place to read, and discovers that real life, although messy, can be as exciting as the stories in his favorite books.
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In a small town near Chicago in 1953, twelve-year-old Tommy faces escalating problems at home and with his Catholic school friends and is dealing with the threat of a communist living nearby, but taking over his hospitalized sister's paper route introduces him to neighbors who he comes to rely on for help.
8) Butter
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Unable to control his binge eating, a morbidly obese teenager nicknamed Butter decides to make live webcast of his last meal as he attempts to eat himself to death.
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"Twelve-year-old Annabelle must learn to stand up for what's right in the face of a manipulative and violent new bully who targets people Annabelle cares about, including a homeless World War I veteran"--
Growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry walks into her class. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulative,...
12) Starfish
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2021 Summer Top Picks for Middle Schoolers
2024 Bluestem List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
2025 Caudill Nominees
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2024 Bluestem List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
2025 Caudill Nominees
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Told in verse, Ellie lives by Fat Girl Rules to avoid being bullied, but with the support of her dad, her therapist and her neighbor Catalina, can Ellie set aside these rules and just be herself?
13) Miss Impossible
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Best babysitters ever volume 3
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Malia, Dot, and Bree are psyched to land their highest paying job yet--until they get to the house and realize they're babysitting Zelda Hooper, Bree and Malia's archnemesis since preschool. Babysitting: not just for babies, apparently. And it's too much money to walk away from...so at least there are no diapers? But all of the babysitting in the world couldn't prepare the girls for their unusual new charge, and even though Zelda should be the one...
15) Twerp
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In Queens, New York, in 1969, twelve-year-old Julian Twerski writes a journal for his English teacher in which he explores his friendships and how they are effected by girls, a new student who may be as fast as Julian, and especially an incident of bullying.
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2024 AAPINH Heritage Month Children's Selections
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2024 Bluestem Award
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"A Indian American boy endures a family move from Hawaii to frigid Minnesota and, with the help of three life-changing books he reads in school, he learns to like reading, and ultimately, himself"--
18) Posted
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When cell phones are banned at their school, students start communicating through sticky notes left all over the school, triggering a wave of bullying activities in the wake of a new girl's arrival.
19) Prairie lotus
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2021 Summer Top Picks for Middle Schoolers
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AANHPI 2022 - Kids
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2022 Bluestem Award Nominees
AANHPI 2022 - Kids
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Prairie Lotus is a powerful, touching, multilayered book about a girl determined to fit in and realize her dreams: getting an education, becoming a dressmaker in her father's shop, and making at least one friend. Acclaimed, award-winning author Linda Sue Park has placed a young half-Asian girl, Hanna, in a small town in America's heartland, in 1880. Hanna's adjustment to her new surroundings, which primarily means negotiating the townspeople's almost...
20) Tangerine
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Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
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