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Last pick

Estes, Joel O.,


When the kids pick teams for basketball, Jamiere and Charlie are always chosen last. When Jamiere is given a turn to be team captain on his birthday, he picks Charlie last too...but when he sees Charlie's crestfallen expression and remembers how terrible it feels to be unwanted, Jamiere finds a kinder way to play the game.
Date Published:2023

Small things

Tregonning, Mel, 1983-2014,


In this wordless graphic picture book, a young boy feels alone with his worries. He isn't fitting in well at school. His grades are slipping. He's even lashing out at those who love him. This short but hard-hitting wordless graphic picture book gets to the heart of childhood anxiety and opens the way for dialogue about acceptance, vulnerability, and the universal experience of worry.
Date Published:2018

Each kindness

Woodson, Jacqueline


When Ms. Albert teaches a lesson on kindness, Chloe realizes that she and her friends have been wrong in making fun of new student Maya's shabby clothes and refusing to play with her.
Date Published:2012

Big

Harrison, Vashti,


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.
Date Published:2022

When things aren't going right, go left

Colagiovanni, Marc,


"Told through creative language play, and with depth and whimsy, this picture book reminds readers of their own agency and the power they have to direct their own path. Marc Colagiovanni's lyrical text and Peter H. Reynolds's stunning art create an enduring message of strength and perseverance that is both universal and personal, and one that readers will be drawn to over and over again. This first of two new picture books created in collaboration with Marc and Peter will inspire, affirm, and reassure readers at key milestone moments in every young reader's life. When Things Aren't Going Right, Go Left makes an inspiring graduation gift as well as a must-have, uplifting read sure to bring positivity to all who read it and remind us that even when nothing is going right... we can always choose to go left."--Publisher marketing
Date Published:2023

"Told through creative language play, and with depth and whimsy, this picture book reminds readers of their own agency and the power they have to direct their own path. Marc Colagiovanni's lyrical text and Peter H. Reynolds's stunning art create an enduring message of strength and perseverance that is both universal and personal, and one that readers will be drawn to over and over again. This first of two new picture books created in collaboration with Marc and Peter will inspire, affirm, and reassure readers at key milestone moments in every young reader's life. When Things Aren't Going Right, Go Left makes an inspiring graduation gift as well as a must-have, uplifting read sure to bring positivity to all who read it and remind us that even when nothing is going right... we can always choose to go left."--Publisher marketing

Date Published:2023

The sharing circle

Larsen-Jonasson, Theresa


When two red foxes have an argument which breaks apart their community, a gentle buffalo decides to take a braid of sweetgrass to a local elder and asks her to help with a sharing circle for all the animals.
Date Published:2016

The day you begin

Woodson, Jacqueline,


Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider.
Date Published:2018

Guts

Telgemeier, Raina,


Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away... and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. What's going on?
Date Published:2019

Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away... and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. What's going on?

Date Published:2019

The list of things that will not change

Stead, Rebecca,


Despite her parents' divorce, her father's coming out as gay, and his plans to marry his boyfriend, ten-year-old Bea is reassured by her parents' unconditional love, excited about getting a stepsister, and haunted by something she did last summer at her father's lake house.
Date Published:2020

The used-to-be best friend

Quigley, Dawn


Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a little differently than anyone else on her Ojibwe reservation. It always seems like her mom, her kokum (grandma), and her teacher have a lot to learn--about how good Jo Jo is at cleaning up, what makes a good rhyme, and what it means to be friendly. Even though Jo Jo loves her #1 best friend Mimi (who is a cat), she's worried that she needs to figure out how to make more friends. Because Fern, her best friend at school, may not want to be friends anymore.
Date Published:2021

Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a little differently than anyone else on her Ojibwe reservation. It always seems like her mom, her kokum (grandma), and her teacher have a lot to learn--about how good Jo Jo is at cleaning up, what makes a good rhyme, and what it means to be friendly. Even though Jo Jo loves her #1 best friend Mimi (who is a cat), she's worried that she needs to figure out how to make more friends. Because Fern, her best friend at school, may not want to be friends anymore.

Date Published:2021

The unlovable Alina Butt

Butt-Hussain, Ambreen,


Fitting in at a new school is hard enough, but when you’re an awkward, big-nosed, nerdy Pakistani girl with a funny last name, it can seem impossible.
Date Published:2023

The name jar

Choi, Yangsook


After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be.
Date Published:2001

We share everything!

Munsch, Robert N., 1945-


On the first day of kindergarten Jeremiah and Amanda have to learn how to share.
Date Published:1999

Tegan and Sara. 1, Junior high /

Quin, Tegan, 1980-


Before Tegan and Sara took the music world by storm, the Quins were just two identical twins trying to find their place in a new home and new school. From first crushes to the perils of puberty, surviving junior high is something the sisters plan to face side by side, just like they've always faced things. But growing up also means growing apart, as Tegan and Sara make different friends and take separate paths to understanding their queerness. For the first time ever, they ask who one sister is without the other.
Date Published:2023

Before Tegan and Sara took the music world by storm, the Quins were just two identical twins trying to find their place in a new home and new school. From first crushes to the perils of puberty, surviving junior high is something the sisters plan to face side by side, just like they've always faced things. But growing up also means growing apart, as Tegan and Sara make different friends and take separate paths to understanding their queerness. For the first time ever, they ask who one sister is without the other.

Date Published:2023

Good enough to eat!

Boczkowski, Tricia.


Cover title. "A scratch & sniff board book." "Based on the TV series SpongeBob SquarePants created by Stephen Hillenburg as seen on Nickelodeon." "Get cookin' with SpongeBob! Scratch and sniff your way through a delicious meal at the Krusty Krab!"--Cover back.
Date Published:2005

The perfect dress

Lagonegro, Melissa



Date Published:2009

SpongeBob's Feelin' it!

Boczkowski, Tricia.


"Based on the TV series SpongeBob SquarePants created by Stephen Hillenburg as seen on Nickelodeon."--Cover On board pages. Cover title. Touch and feel your way around Bikini Bottom with SpongeBob!
Date Published:2004

A functional assessment and curriculum for teaching students with disabilities

Bender, Michael, 1943-


" ... the fourth edition of 'Teaching the moderately and severely handicapped', is a major revision of the first, second, and third editions."--P. ix. "3rd ed."-- cover, v. 3. "2nd ed."-- cover, v. 4.
Date Published:2008