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21) Fish in a tree
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J NOVEL HUNT
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J NOVEL HUNT
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
J CD NOVEL HUNT
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J CD NOVEL HUNT
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Ally has been smart enough to fool a lot of smart people. Every time she lands in a new school, she is able to hide her inability to read by creating clever yet disruptive distractions. She is afraid to ask for help; after all, how can you cure dumb? However, her newest teacher Mr. Daniels sees the bright, creative kid underneath the trouble maker. With his help, Ally learns not to be so hard on herself and that dyslexia is nothing to be ashamed of....
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Abandoned by his mother in an Acadia National Park campground, Jack tries to make his way back to Boston before anyone figures out what is going on, with only a small toy elephant for company.
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
J NOVEL BARON
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J NOVEL BARON
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"Etan has stopped speaking since his mother left. His father and grandfather don't know how to help him. His friends have given up on him. When Etan is asked to deliver a grocery order to the outskirts of town, he realizes he's at the home of Malia Agbayani, also known as the creature. Malia stopped going to school when her acute eczema spread to her face, and the bullying became too much. Soon, other kids tease Etan for being friends with the creature....
24) The wild path
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Twelve-year-old Claire struggles to cope while her eighteen-year-old brother, Andy, is treated for drug addiction and her family prepares to sell her beloved horses, but finally accepts that change can be good.
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Three years after his father's death by suicide, twelve-year-old Drew embarks on a journey toward understanding, forgiveness, and hope.
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Middle schooler Natalie's year-long assignment to answer a question using the scientific method leads to truths about her mother's depression and her own cultural identity.
27) OCDaniel
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A thirteen-year-old boy's life revolves around hiding his obsessive compulsive disorder until a girl at school, who is unkindly nicknamed Psycho Sara, notices him for the first time and he gets a mysterious note that changes everything.
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
J NOVEL KING OCDANIEL 0
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J NOVEL KING OCDANIEL 0
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Seventh-grader Sara wants to be normal but her panic attacks and other episodes cause her to isolate herself until, in group therapy, she meets talkative and outgoing Erin, her first friend.
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Seventh-grader Annabelle's mother is a hoarder, and their whole house is full of canned goods, broken toys, fabric, and old newspapers-- but when a pile of newspapers (organized by weather reports) falls on Annabelle's younger sister Leslie and their mother is more concerned about the newspapers, it sets off a chain of events that brings their fix-it-all grandmother in and Annabelle realizes that if there is any hope for change she can not isolate...
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Finley Hart is sent to her grandparents' house for the summer, but her anxiety and overwhelmingly sad days continue until she escapes into her writings which soon turn mysteriously real and she realizes she must save this magical world in order to save herself.
31) The paper cowboy
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In a small town near Chicago in 1953, twelve-year-old Tommy faces escalating problems at home and with his Catholic school friends and is dealing with the threat of a communist living nearby, but taking over his hospitalized sister's paper route introduces him to neighbors who he comes to rely on for help.
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Alvin Ho volume 1
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A young boy in Concord, Massachusetts, who loves superheroes and comes from a long line of brave Chinese farmer-warriors, wants to make friends, but first he must overcome his fear of everything.
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - Bluestem Award
J NOVEL MACKLER
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J NOVEL MACKLER
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - Bluestem Award
J PLAYAWAY MACKLER
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J PLAYAWAY MACKLER
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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...
34) Elfie unperfect
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
J NOVEL MAHONEY
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J NOVEL MAHONEY
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After a series of spectacular-and at times, hilarious-disasters, including being expelled from school, perfectionist Elfie Oster discovers what truly matters as she tries to make sense of everything that is happening to her.
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The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town. Twelve-year-old Hattie learns that living life fully means facing both the good times and the bad upon the closing of her Uncle Adam's "school"- an institution for the mentally disabled.
36) Up for air
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J NOVEL MORRISON
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J NOVEL MORRISON
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Learning disabilities make school painful for Annabelle, thirteen, but a summer of swimming with the high school team is fantastic until a prank goes wrong, spoiling everything.
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
NOVEL MICHAELS
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NOVEL MICHAELS
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
LARGE TYPE NOVEL MICHAELS
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LARGE TYPE NOVEL MICHAELS
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Two teenage boys are missing and their disappearance may be linked to a shady fertility clinic Sam Parker and Lily Madison visited in college as penniless sudents. When Sam and Lily learn that one of the missing boys looks exactly like Sam, they set out to discover what really went on at the clinic all those years ago.
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
J NOVEL OH
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J NOVEL OH
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A tale based on true events follows the coming-of-age of a girl who is motivated by an act of racism at school to learn about her ancestral heritage and her grandparents' experiences as lost children during the Korean War.
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Eleven-year-old Maybelle Lane collects sounds. She records the Louisiana crickets chirping, Momma strumming her guitar, their broken trailer door squeaking. But the crown jewel of her collection is a sound she didn't collect herself: an old recording of her daddy's warm-sunshine laugh, saved on an old phone's voicemail. It's the only thing she has of his, and the only thing she knows about him. Until the day she hears that laugh--his laugh--pouring...
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A timely and whimsical portrait of growing up with social anxiety follows the experiences of a girl who risks a best friendship in her attempt to sabotage her own bat mitzvah to avoid the event's intimidating large crowds and requirement for her to sing in another language.