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Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Becoming an Adult focuses on the growth, connecting, separating, and choices that every human being must go through. Dr. Henry Cloud highlights key issues that individuals face as they are tasked with navigating adulting. Some of the topics discussed are:dependency, authority, and boundaries.reevaluating beliefs, decision making, and discipline.sexuality, fear of disapproval, and guilt.Dr. Cloud teaches us how to become a healthy, productive, and...
3) In my life
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When the Beat Bugs throw a birthday party for Katter the Pillar, she's unable to enjoy the festivities, as she adjusts to her growing and changing body.
5) Twins
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Maureen and Francine Carter are twins and best friends. They participate in the same clubs, enjoy the same foods, and are partners on all their school projects. But just before the girls start sixth grade, Francine becomes Fran -- a girl who wants to join the chorus, run for class president, and dress in fashionable outfits that set her apart from Maureen. A girl who seems happy to share only two classes with her sister! Maureen and Francine are growing...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Two murderous pirates find a child stowaway on board and attempt to balance pillaging with co-parenting. A woman raised by wolves prepares for her parents' annual Thanksgiving visit. An aging mutant superhero is forced to learn humility when the mayor kicks him upstairs to a desk job. And in the hard-boiled caper--The Big Nap--a weary two-year-old detective struggles to make sense of a world gone mad. Equal parts silly and sincere, New Teeth is an...
10) An off year
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Upon arriving at her dorm room, eighteen-year-old Cecily decides to postpone her freshman year of college and return to her Chicago home, where she spends a year pondering what went wrong while forging new relationships with family and friends.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly, who changes everything. Nathan is confident, fearless, impetuous--and fascinated by kites and flying. Robert and Nathan's budding friendship is forged in the crucible of two family tragedies, and as the boys struggle to come to terms with loss, they take summer jobs at the local rundown amusement park....
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hank, Leland, Kip and Ronny were all born and raised in the same Wisconsin town--Little Wing--and are now coming into their own (or not) as husbands and fathers. One of them never left, still farming the family's land that's been tilled for generations. Others did leave, went farther afield to make good, with varying degrees of success; as a rock star, commodities trader, rodeo stud. And seamlessly woven into their patchwork is Beth, whose presence...
Author
Publisher
Interlude Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Adulting is hard. Just ask Wes Hudson. An avid comic book geek, Wes excels at two things: slacking off and pining after his best friend, Nico. Advice from his friends, '90s alt-rock songs, and online dating articles aren't helping much with his secret crush. And his dream job at Once Upon a Page, the local indie bookstore, is threatened when a coffeeshop franchise wants to buy the property. To top it off, his family won't stop pestering him about...
14) Fly on the wall
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Though Henry Khoo is twelve years old, he's still treated like a baby. He's forbidden from going anywhere without his sister/chaperone/bodyguard. And he definitely CAN'T take a journey halfway around the world all by himself! But that's exactly his plan. After his family's annual trip to visit his father in Singapore is canceled, Henry decides he doesn't want to be cooped up at home with his overprotective family and BFF turned NRFF (Not Really Friend...
Author
Series
My life volume 4
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Derek Fallon discovers all the angst that comes with being twelve--he just wants to feel grown up, but life gets in the way with a series of mishaps that make him look like a baby"--
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Like The Great Gatsby and Bright Lights, Big City, Kimberley Tait's Fake Plastic Love examines one innocent's unsentimental education with great energy and panache." --Stewart O'Nan, author of West of Sunset. Four millennial bright young things charge into the real world, with all the unfounded confidence of twenty-two: M., our narrator, is one of the few young women at her prestigious, high-octane investment bank. To her mother's chagrin, she has...
17) I grow
Author
Series
Publisher
Free Spirit Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A toddler shares all the things he can do independently to take care of himself and be kind and helpful. Children learn that they, too, can develop healthy habits to grow strong in mind, body, and heart. A section for adults includes tips and activities to encourage children as they grow.
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