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Nat enough volume 2
Pub. Date
2020
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For the first time in her life, Natalie feels confident. Her talents are being recognized, she has supportive friends, and she's spending a ton of time with her crush, Derek! But when Derek tells Natalie that he just wants to be friends, Natalie's self-confidence quickly changes to self-doubt. As she tries to recover from her broken heart, Natalie casts aside her talents and even her friends. With no one to turn to, Natalie will have to pull herself...
4) Think big!
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Vinney is frustrated about being one of the smallest children at school, but when he takes his mother's advice and thinks big for a day, he discovers that there are advantages to being small.
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Faith Herbert is a pretty regular teen. When she’s not hanging out with her two best friends, Matt and Ches, she’s volunteering at the local animal shelter or obsessing over the long-running teen drama The Grove. So far, her senior year has been spent trying to sort out her feelings for her maybe-crush Johnny and making plans to stay close to Grandma Lou after graduation. Of course, there’s also that small matter of recently discovering she...
8) Shug
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A twelve-year-old girl learns about friendship, first loves, and self-worth in a small town in the South.
9) Chlorine sky
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Picked on at home, criticized for talking trash while beating boys at basketball, and always seen as less than her best friend, a girl struggles to like and accept herself.
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"America, do you love me? A single question from a single child multiplies across the country with every page turn, inviting in more and more children of color--and their questions"-- Provided by publisher. Includes author's note about growing up as a brown girl, whose grandmother and great-grandmother spoke Louisiana Creole, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance with her class every morning.
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Ed Kennedy is a nineteen-year-old cab driver who doesn't think much of his life. He inadvertently helps stop a bank robbery, and that is when his life starts to change. He begins to receive mysterious messages that instruct him to go to addresses where people need help. Ed becomes the messenger, but who is behind the messages?
12) I'm mixed!
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A young girl proudly claims her "mixed" identity as the child of a white mother and an African American father.
14) You are special
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Punchinello's opinion of himself changes after talking to his creator.
16) River secrets
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Books of Bayern volume 3
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Young Razo travels from Bayern to Tira at war's end as part of a diplomatic corps, but mysterious events in the Tiran capital fuel simmering suspicions and anger, and Razo must spy out who is responsible before it is too late and he becomes trapped in an enemy land.
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"We might not know what the future holds, but the lyrical rhyming text in this beautiful book reassures readers that they have the resilience and strength to face whatever comes their way...Inspired by the author’s own experience with anxiety, this book offers gentle wisdom applicable to both children and adults." --publisher's website.
19) I am brown
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"I am brown. I am beautiful. I am perfect. I designed this computer. I ran this race. I won this prize. I wrote this book. A joyful celebration of the skin you're in--of being brown, of being amazing, of being you" -- Amazon.com.
20) Stand beautiful
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Be true to who you are! And stand up for others, that's standing beautiful. Each one of us is different in our own unique way, and it's those differences that make us beautiful. Come along on a whimsical journey as young Chloe and her friends hit the road to spread the news that we're all beautiful and perfect just the way we are. With humor and heart, this book asks readers one very important question. Will YOU stand beautiful too?




