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English
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Willa lives on the upper West Side of Manhattan with her divorced father and her younger brother and attends fifth grade with her best friend Ruby, and she likes things to be a certain way, because it makes life manageable even with her Sensory Processing Disorder; she certainly does not like surprises, and her father has just thrown her a big one: he has been dating Ruby's mother, and suddenly Willa's life seems to be spiraling out of her control--and...
Author
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Ms. Rapscott's girls volume 1
Language
English
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"At Great Rapscott School for Girls of Busy Parents, Ms. Rapscott teaches her students How to Get Lost on Purpose, resulting in a series of fantastical adventures that makes each learn a little something about courage, strength, bravery, and teamwork"--
3) Focused
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English
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Twelve-year-old Clea wants to do her homework, follow instructions, pay attention in school, and play chess on the school team, but somehow she cannot focus on whatever is in front of her, and the other kids at school are starting to notice and make fun of her; when her worried parents take her to be tested she finds out that she has ADHD (only without the hyperactivity)--and with help from the psychiatrist who seems to really understand her she is...
Author
Series
Aurora County trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Ruby's grandmother, Miss Eula goes to visit a new grandchild in Hawaii, nine-year-old Ruby is sure that she will have a lonely and boring summer in Halleluia, Mississippi. After all, what other granddaughter-grandmother duo would drive the getaway car for chickens rescued from the slaughterhouse, or paint a hoise shellshock pink? Instead, Ruby makes a new friend, saves the school play, writes plenty of letters to her favorite (and only) grandmother...and...
Author
Series
Ms. Rapscott's girls volume 2
Language
English
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"In their second term at Great Rapscott School for Girls of Busy Parents, Ms. Rapscott teaches her students that the path to The Top starts at the Bottom of the Barrel and other silly lessons"--
Author
Publisher
Audrey Beth Stein
Language
English
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Description
Will an eight-year-old girl's much-anticipated plans for a very special day with her best friend be derailed by a stealthy migraine headache? This colorful story follows two young girls on the occasion of a big sleepover - with roller-skating, glow-in-the-dark stickers, blanket forts, and a special adventure all on the agenda. The narrator is torn between trying to have fun with her friend and conceding to the increasing throbbing in her head. But...
Author
Series
Ninja life hacks volume 33-40
Publisher
Grow Grit Press LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Helps children learn valuable life skills.
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Series
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Laila's birthday party, perfectly planned with her autism in mind, goes awry due to a change in weather and an accident with her cake, but with the help of her mom and her service dog, Laila knows she can handle this"-- Provided by publisher.
12) There was a hole
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Lily imagines her sadness as a hole, which is getting bigger and swallowing up her life--until a friend shows her how to patch her hole and make it managable.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Are you a dog in need of advice? Fear not: Chip the dog is ON IT in this super-silly guide to living your best canine life. Chip is seven; he knows things. Like what to eat (important papers, the fancy bird the humans cooked for the fancy dinner, Grandpa's teeth), and what not to eat (bees). He won't get those mixed up, will he?"--
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Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Teenager Viola Li and her sister Roz are selling bean buns at a science fiction gathering in Seattle when she suddenly collapses--she wakes up in the hospital to find that somehow she has developed an extreme case of photosensitivity (so bad that even ordinary lights can cause blisters), and somehow, in her senior year of high school, she has to craft a new life that will still include journalism school, activism, and the new guy who caught her as...
19) Mr. Nervous
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Series
Publisher
Price/Stern/Sloan
Pub. Date
[2009], c1976
Language
English
Description
Mr. Nervous is too frightened of everything and everyone until he meets someone who helps him by showing him how to stay calm.
20) Money plan
Author
Publisher
Alconbury Press, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"I leap from bed on Saturdays. I get to help my mommy shop. We leave early in the morning. The grocer is our first stop." - back cover
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