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Social scientist Bren�e Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives -- experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. Now Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization. Brown argues that we're experiencing a spiritual crisis of disconnection, and introduces four practices of true belonging that challenge everything we believe...
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"It's always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their parents, aunties and uncles, they've learned to live their own lives alongside the expectations of being good Muslim women...With growing older and the stakes of love and life growing higher, the delicate balancing act between rebellion and religion is becoming increasingly difficult to navigate. As their lives begin to take different paths,...
5) Anthem
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 3
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"Those who want slavery should have the grace to name it by its proper name."--Ayn Rand. In a dark, terrifying, and backwards future, people have no names and are taught never to think of themselves. Everything is subordinate to the all-powerful World Council. Individualism is illegal; as is love not authorized by the World Council. Just using the word "I" is a transgression punishable by death. Fear of innovation and change has stifled humanity and...
6) The giver
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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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.
8) Stargirl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
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In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
10) Lost and found
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of a clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one.
11) Hooray for you!
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Look the world over and you'll never find a duplicate of you-ness that's your one of a kind! Hooray for You! is a celebration of you-ness, the grand sum of mind, body, and heart that makes every person truly unique.
12) Pink!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Teased in school for being pink, Patrick the penguin leaves the South Pole to live with the flamingos in Africa.
13) Purplicious
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Pinkalicious volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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When her classmates make fun of her for still liking the color pink, a little girl feels all alone, but then a friend shows her the power of pink.
15) I am enough
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Shares a story of loving who you are, respecting others and being kind to one another.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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Kit Tyler must leave behind shimmering Caribbean islands to join the stern Puritan community of her relatives. She soon feels caged, until she meets the old woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond. But when their friendship is discovered, Kit herself is accused of witchcraft!
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