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Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the long-time friendship between Liz and Sarabeth, a relationship that is forged in childhood and sustained through the decades that follow, until both women are forced to reexamine their lives in the wake of a devastating crisis.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The world treats Twinky like a dinky dog. The only problem is that Twinky doesn't feel dinky. What can a little dog do to prove the age-old adage that size doesn't matter?"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dino Duckling looks nothing like his siblings, but Mama Duck says that doesn't matter because they are all a family, but when they get ready to fly South for the winter, Dino Duckling is left behind.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A young Muslim American, Changez is living the American dream, with a Princeton education and high-paying job, until the events of September 11th force him to confront his personal allegiances.
7) Frogged
Author
Publisher
New York
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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.
8) One: a novel
Author
Publisher
Dell Pub
Pub. Date
1989, ©1988
Language
English
Description
In a timeless, spaceless realm, the author and his wife encounter alternate selves, the course of their fates is altered, and they are taught the true meaning of love and compassion.
10) Monster
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
11) 10,000 dresses
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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Description
Bailey longs to wear the beautiful dresses of her dreams but is ridiculed by her unsympathetic family which rejects her true perception of herself.
12) Why?
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Would-be supervillain Doctor X-Ray swoops into the mall, threatening destruction, only to be confronted by a little girl asking "why" to his every declaration, until finally he is forced to reveal, and understand, the root of his anger--and so departs in peace.
13) Nesting dolls
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A little girl struggling to find her place within her family is shown how special she is through a set of nesting dolls.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the alternating stories of two young women--Maja Carmen Carrerra, the daughter of a black Cuban couple who longs for a connection to her African roots, and Yemaya Saramgua, a Yoruba goddess in the Somewherehouse in search of the meaning of faith and identity.
16) Cara de liebre
Author
Series
Publisher
Seix Barral
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Una mujer está de cacería en La Cebolla de Cristal. El grupo que toca en el escenario da pena, aunque el vocalista no parece un mal partido. La atmósfera oscura es la adecuada para ocultar la cicatriz en su rostro, la dolorosa marca de las cirugías a las que fue sometida de niña debido a su labio leporino y que la hizo merecedora del cruel apodo de Cara de Liebre. Su aire desinhibido y su cuerpo exuberante logran llamar la atención del cantante,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
-- 1946: At the apogee of the American Century, the confidence inspired by victory in World War II has spawned a culture of suffocating conformity in thrall to the cult of masculine privilege.In the hardscrabble industrial city of Trenton, New Jersey, a woman made strong by wartime factory work kills her army veteran husband in a domestic brawl, disposes of his body, and assumes his identity. As Abe Kunstler, he secures a job in a wire rope factory,...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
In the summer of her junior year, sixteen-year-old Ruby McQueen and her mother, both nursing broken hearts, set out on a journey to reunite an elderly woman with her long-lost love and in the process learn many things about "the real ties that bind" people to one another.
20) The list
Author
Publisher
Push
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Every year at Mount Washington High School somebody posts a list of the prettiest and ugliest girls from each grade--this is the story of eight girls, freshman to senior, and how they are affected by the list.
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