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1) Loser
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Even though his classmates from first grade on have considered him strange and a loser, Daniel Zinkoff's optimism and exuberance and the support of his loving family do not allow him to feel that way about himself.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A bored chameleon wishes it could be more like all the other animals it sees, but soon decides it would rather just be itself. Cutouts along the edges of the pages display various animals and colors.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A frog who yearns to be any animal that is cute and warm discovers that being wet, slimy, and full of bugs has its advantages.
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes Untethered Sky, an epic fantasy fable about the pursuit of obsession at all costs. Ester's family was torn apart when a manticore killed her mother and baby brother, leaving her with nothing but her father's painful silence and a single, overwhelming need to kill the monsters that took her family. Ester's path leads her to the King's Royal Mews, where the giant rocs of legend are flown to hunt...
Author
Series
Friends (Hale) volume 3
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Shannon is in eighth grade, and life is more complicated than ever. Everything keeps changing, her classmates are starting to date each other (but nobody wants to date her!), and no matter how hard she tries, Shannon can never seem to just be happy. As she works through her insecurities and undiagnosed depression, she worries about disappointing all the people who care about her. Is something wrong with her? Can she be the person everyone expects...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Izzy, has stumbled across her dream of doing stand-up comedy, but hiding it from family and friends is causing her many untruths to quickly unravel.
10) B-E-S-T friends
Author
Series
New kids of Polk Street School volume 4
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Stacy thinks the new girl is horrible because she is so different and does not do anything the way everybody else does.
11) Big
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Praised for acting like a big girl when she is small, as a young girl grows, "big" becomes a word of criticism, until the girl realizes that she is fine just the way she is.
12) Unretouchable
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Olive is spending the summer before college helping a fashion-industry imaging specialist-and pondering the impact of this work behind the scenes."--
Author
Series
Fudge books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spending the summer in Tarrytown, New York, is a lot of fun for ten-year-old Sheila even though her friends make her face up to some self-truths she does not want to admit.
Author
Series
Janette Oke's animal friends volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Pogo dreams of living a fun and exciting life like the lucky boys who visit his pond, until he discovers that being a turtle is pretty special.
16) Someday Angeline
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
As an eight-year-old genius in the sixth grade, Angeline is not too popular, but she tries to adjust to being different.
17) Growing wings
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When wings start to appear on her back, eleven-year-old Linnet begins to understand some of her mother's strange behavior, but it isn't until she finds herself at a remote house in Montana with others who also have--or had--wings that she can really come to terms with her situation.
19) You matter
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
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Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read text remind the reader that no matter what happens or how one feels, he or she matters.
20) Dear girl
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Encourages readers to accept and love themselves as they are and advises them to be confident, curious, adaptable, and willing to speak up.