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1) You matter
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Illustrations and easy-to-read text remind the reader that no matter what happens or how one feels, he or she matters.
2) Just because
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From worrying when excited to forgiving while still hurting, children experience everyday paradoxes as they embrace their full potential.
3) Joy ride
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The hilarious and unapologetically explicit story of identity and self-discovery centers on four unlikely friends who embark on a once-in-a-lifetime international adventure. When Audrey's business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo, her irreverent, childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat, her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye, Lolo's eccentric cousin. Their no-holds-barred, epic experience...
4) Loser
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Bullying Awareness Month (kids)
OBD Back To School - Youth
OBD Find Your Voice! Summer Reading 2023 - YOUTH
OBD Back To School - Youth
OBD Find Your Voice! Summer Reading 2023 - YOUTH
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From the Publisher: Just like other kids, Zinkoff rides his bike, hopes for snow days, and wants to be like his dad when he grows up. But Zinkoff also raises his hand with all the wrong answers, trips over his own feet, and falls down with laughter over a word like "Jabip." Other kids have their own word to describe him, but Zinkoff is too busy to hear it. He doesn't know he's not like everyone else. And one winter night, Zinkoff's differences...
6) Sulwe
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Black Authors: Board and Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
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2024 Monarch Nominees
Black Authors: Board and Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
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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.
7) Dear Girl
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Encourages readers to accept and love themselves as they are and advises them to be confident, curious, adaptable, and willing to speak up.
10) Buffalo Fluffalo
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"A sweet and silly buffalo who tries to bluff and fluff his way into being bigger than he really is"--
11) Perfectly Norman
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Norman is very surprised to have wings suddenly, and he has the most fun ever trying them out high in the sky. But then he has to go in for dinner. What will his parents think? What will everyone else think? Norman feels the safest plan is to cover his wings with a big coat. But hiding the thing that makes you different proves tricky and upsetting. Can Norman ever truly be himself?
12) Fierce self-compassion: how women can harness kindness to speak up, claim their power, and thrive
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Drawing on research, her personal life story and empirically supported practices, the author of Self-Compassion shows women how to reclaim balance within themselves and use fierce and tender self-compassion to ensure their own wholeness and well-being.
13) Big
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2024 ALA Youth Media Awards (SCPL-YS)
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Body Positive Picture Books
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2024 Youth Media Award Winners
Body Positive Picture Books
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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.
14) 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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"Auggie knows he's not an ordinary kid. He does plenty of ordinary things. He feels ordinary. He just doesn't look ordinary. Growing up as an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face isn't easy, but Auggie is a wonder. He and his trusty sidekick, Daisy, play ball, eat ice cream, and use their imaginations to soar through their days together. They know it's not just Auggie who's different. Everyone is different, and everyone is a wonder - if only they...
17) Puddle
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A puddle sits despairingly as she is trampled on by humans and animals alike until something miraculous happens that makes her feel worthwhile.
18) Flat cat
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Flat Cat likes being flat--roaming anywhere and happy to be unseen--until one day when he becomes fluffy, he learns to enjoy the attention it brings, and grows to love being seen.
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"An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break up, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For May, her husband fell ill, her son stopped attending school, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding...
20) Buy yourself the f*cking lilies: and other rituals to fix your life, from someone who's been there
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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...
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