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Author
Publication Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"In this groundbreaking New York Times best seller, Dr. Brené Brown, a research professor and thought leader on vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame, shares ten guideposts on the power of wholehearted living -- a way of engaging with the world from a place of worthiness"-- Provided by publisher.
2) Hear me
Author
Publication Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"After being diagnosed with progressive hearing loss, Rayne resists her parents' efforts to 'fix' her and rethinks her own assumptions about what her condition means for her"--Provided by publisher.
4) Wonder
Author
Series
Publication Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
Author
Publication Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old artist Zailey lives in a utopian community where residents are forbidden from anything that might reveal their image, but when her grandmother discovers her secret collection of portraits, it triggers a chain of events that enables Zailey to view everything in a new way.
7) Sulwe
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publication Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
When five-year-old Sulwe's classmates make fun of her dark skin, she tries lightening herself to no avail, but her encounter with a shooting star helps her understand there is beauty in every shade.
Author
Publication Date
2025
Language
English
Description
The "host of the top relationship podcast Jillian on Love revealsnine core truths about love and self-acceptance and provides ... self-healing techniques and strategies to help us repair our relationship with ourselves and start building the rewarding [romantic] relationships we deserve"-- Provided by publisher.
9) Dear Girl
Author
Publication Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
Encourages readers to accept and love themselves as they are and advises them to be confident, curious, adaptable, and willing to speak up.
10) Just like Rabbit
Author
Publication Date
2026
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
Every spring Rabbit sparkles, and this year Frog decides he will be a rabbit too, but when disaster strikes, it is Frog's own special gifts that save the day.
Author
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
Description
When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist and former Sunday Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In this book, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting dumped, realising that Ivan from the corner shop is the only man you've ever been able to rely on, and finding...
12) Buy yourself the f*cking lilies: and other rituals to fix your life, from someone who's been there
Author
Publication Date
2019
Language
English
Description
By the time she was in her late twenties, Tara Schuster was a rising TV executive who had worked for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and helped launch Key & Peele to viral superstardom. By all appearances, she had mastered being a grown-up. But beneath that veneer of success, she was a chronically anxious, self-medicating mess. No one knew that her road to adulthood had been paved with depression, anxiety, and shame, owing in large part to her minimally...
13) Housewitch
Author
Publication Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When the passing of her estranged mother causes her previously dormant special talents to emerge, reuniting her with the family that abandoned her, stay-at-home mom Allison Darling, desperate to fit in, becomes torn between her hippie relatives and the most powerful and glamorous women in town (summary from online).
Author
Publication Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Homeschooled by her mechanic-environmentalist father, eleven-year-old Rachel "Ratchet" Vance records her efforts to make friends, save a park, remember her mother, and find her own definition of "normal."
Author
Publication Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Follows thirteen-year-old neurodivergent Maudie during an eventful summer in California with her father, where she struggles with whether to share a terrible secret about life with her mom and stepdad.
17) You matter
Author
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read text remind the reader that no matter what happens or how one feels, he or she matters.
Author
Publication Date
2025
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Gwen MacKinnon's parents are dreadful. Truly, deeply, almost impressively dreadful. So Gwen's not upset at all when she's foisted onto her never-before-seen Uncle Matthew for two weeks. Especially when it turns out he has a very opinionated dog named Pumpkin. Things take a turn for the weird when Gwen makes a discovery in the local library. A discovery that involves tiny creatures with wings. And no, they're not birds. They're called Lahdukan. But...
Author
Publication Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Feeling your best is about far more than deciding what color to paint your accent wall or how to apply nightly moisturizer. It's also about creating a life that's well-rounded, filled with humor and understanding--and most importantly, that suits you. At a cultural moment when we are all craving people to admire, Queer Eye offers hope and acceptance. After you get to know the Fab Five, together they will guide you through five practical chapters that...



