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1) The giver
Author
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After a girl is killed by her ex-boyfriend in a school shooting, her two best friends attempt to memorialize her in a town economically dependent on the shooter's family"--
Beck and Vivian never could stand each other, but they always tried their best for their mutual friend, Cassie. Then Cassie is killed at school by her ex-boyfriend Nicholas, the teen heir to the Bell Firearms fortune. After the town moves on from Cassie's murder too fast, Beck...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Water Sprites are supposed to perform their medal-winning synchronized swimming routine aboard a cruise ship, but everything goes wrong when the piglets aboard start throwing things at the swimmers--so Gracie enlists the help of famous Rita Sinclair and her dancers to help impose order on the unruly passengers.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Lexile measure
AD 360L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"I Am a Peaceful Goldfish teaches kids and families about playful breathing techniques that we can use to overcome our anxiety and feel calm and grounded. When we are overcome with emotions, our breath--and a bit of imagination--can bring us back to a peaceful place. In this simple story, two children learn how to settle their feelings with imaginative breathing techniques, pretending they are elephants, flowers, even dragons! This charming book teaches...
6) Takedown
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
500L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (63 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Jeff has an anger problem. He doesn't know how to control his temper. One day, when his anger has almost gotten out of hand, he meets Logan, one of the captains of his school's wrestling team. Logan thinks Jeff would be a great wrestler. But can Jeff control his anger long enough to win a match?
Author
Publisher
National Center for Youth Issues
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Control your wiggles and be the BOSS of your ants. In I Have Ants in My Pants, Julia Cook helps normalize the feeling many kids have when they struggle to control their wiggles and provides strategies for improving impulse control. Some children just can't sit still no matter how hard they try. And Louis is no exception. He accidentally kicks his friend during story time. He can't stand still in the lunch line. And he wiggles in his seat at the movie...
10) How we ricochet
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imrpint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Betty, her sister and mother were all shopping at the mall when the shooting happened -- and although they all survived, none of them would be the same after. Betty watches her mother throw herself into activism and away from her family, while her outgoing sister becomes a shadow of her former self. Desperate for answers, Betty finds herself reaching out to the shooter's brother, but all it does is reveal that nothing in life is simple to understand....
11) Spark
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At the speaking of names ceremony, Leora Flint revealed to everyone in Saintstone that her true mother was a blank, somebody without the tattoos that record a persons triumphs and sins; now she has been sent to the blank settlement, Featherstone, as an exile, and as a spy because the two communities are inching closer to war--but there are some people who hope to use her as a bridge to peace, others who will do anything to prevent that, and Leora...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Graphic, an imprint of Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First graphic edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A beautiful and faithful graphic novel adaptation of Richard Adams's beloved story of a group of rabbits on an epic journey in search of home."Every rabbit that stays behind is in great danger. We will welcome any rabbit who joins us." Watership Down is a classic tale of survival, hope, courage, and friendship that has delighted and inspired readers around the world for more than fifty years. Masterfully adapted by award-winning author James Sturm...
14) Pest
Author
Publisher
Keylight Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
High school senior and pest control technician Hallie Mayhew is desperate to trade her home in Santa Barbara for any east coast college that will take her away from her divorced, bickering parents and her dad's extermination business, but she fears that a rigged scholarship competition, wily thieves, and the handsome boy next door will contrive to keep her in California.
15) Nightingale
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At seventeen, June Hardie is everything a young woman in 1951 shouldn't be--independent, rebellious, a dreamer. June longs to travel, to attend college and to write the dark science fiction stories that consume her waking hours. But her parents only care about making June a better young woman. Her mother grooms her to be a perfect little homemaker while her father pushes her to marry his business partner's domineering son. When June resists, her whole...