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"All around the world, girls are going to school, working, dreaming up big futures--they are soccer players and surfers, ballerinas and chess champions. Yet we know so little about their daily lives. We often hear about challenges and catastrophes in the news, and about exceptional girls who make headlines. But even though the health, education, and success of girls so often determines the future of a community, we don't know more about what life...
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[2023]
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1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When her family goes out of town, Alex and her fellow band geek friend Claire decide to steal her brother's candy apple red 1966 Mustang on a weekend joyride in hopes of appearing cool and impressing her high school crush.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
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Helping her popular next-door neighbor Gayil set up what she thinks are harmless pranks, 12-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl Shaindy must figure out how to stop them before she becomes the next target when the pranks escalate and turn malicious.
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[2023]
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330 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Fifteen-year-old Jessie, a quirky loner obsessed with the nineties, is diagnosed as autistic just weeks before starting high school. Determined to make a fresh start and keep her diagnosis a secret, Jessie creates a list of goals that range from acquiring two distinct eyebrows to getting a magical first kiss and landing a spot in the school play. Within the halls of Holy Trinity High, she finds a world where things are no longer black and white and...
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2023
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168 pages ; 21 cm.
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High school senior Rebecca "Bex" Koeltl is just trying to make it to graduation. But when her fellow seniors begin dying in seemingly unrelated incidents, Bex uncovers disturbing connections between their deaths, including that the teens believed they were haunted by long-dead relatives their own family members swear never existed. After Bex is visited by a malevolent specter of her own, she realizes she has to get the bottom of this horror before...
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[2010]
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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When Uncle John forbids Mandie from joining his quest to keep an old promise, Jason Bond and Mandie's newfound mother, Elizabeth, make other plans. Mandie and friends then embark on a harrowing journey by train to protect Uncle John.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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What are people for? That's the burning question on the mind of Leeva Spayce Thornblossom. Fame! says Leeva's mom, the mayor of Nutsmore. Money! says her dad, the town treasurer. With the help of an orphaned badger, a risk-averse boy in a hazmat suit, and the town's librarians, Leeva sets off to discover her own answer--setting off a chain of events that will change Nutsmore forever.
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2023.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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"There's only one gift Isabel wants for her sixth birthday: a way to see invisible things. She can hardly think of anything else! Finally, the day of her party arrives. Unwrapping a big box, Isabel finds a surprise inside--a glass prism--and a dazzling world of previously invisible color emerges, lighting up the room around her. What else could be out there, waiting for her eyes to discover? In simple, engaging language, complemented by luminous artwork...
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The key to staying alive
lies buried in forgotten memories
Ten years ago, forensic artist Jacy Urban escaped her abductor with no memory of that night. Now two teenage girls are missing, and all signs indicate that the same kidnapper is back on the hunt. When Jacy is attacked, it's clear she's the assailant's next target. Only Detective Cash Rawson is there to rescue her-again. Can Cash help Jacy recover her memories before she's silenced for...
11) Actually super
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2023.
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277 pages ; 21 cm.
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Isabel is having an existential crisis. She's three years into high school, and everything she's learned has only shaken her faith in humanity. Late one night, she finds herself drawn to a niche corner of the internet-a forum whose members believe firmly in one thing: that there are indeed people out in the world quietly performing impossible acts of heroism. You might even call them supers. So, the day she turns 18, she sets off on a journey that...
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Sutton going missing is the worst thing to happen to Casey, to their family. She's trying to help find her sister, but Casey is furious. She knows Sutton is manipulative, meanwhile everyone paints a picture of her perfection. People don't look for missing Black girls--or half-Black girls--without believing there is an angel to be saved. When Sutton reappears, Casey knows she should be relieved. Except Sutton isn't the same. She remembers nothing...
13) Malala Yousafzai
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Malala Yousafzai always knew she wanted to become a doctor someday. But a new extremist group in her home country of Pakistan wanted to stop girls from going to school.
Malala knew what was important, and so she spoke out. Even after she was attacked on a bus for her views, she persisted.
Learn about Malala's incredible recovery and her journey to becoming a world-famous advocate of girls' rights and education -- and the youngest-ever Nobel...
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Sometimes a person walks into your life and changes it forever.That is exactly what happened to fourteen-year-old Mayah Lewis.Depressed, she hides from the world, until she meets new girl, beautiful bald-headed Celeste Daniels. Her love of life, inspires Mayah to live again. Everything begins looking up, until one day, Celeste disappears.
15) La más amada
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De la mano de su controversial protagonista Sophia Laurent nos sumerge en el mundo adolescente de una escuela preparatoria donde su mundo gira entre las modas y las redes sociales.
Con un humor que va desde lo mas cruel, negro y hasta por momentos de mal gusto hasta un humor inocente y clásico.
Tocando temas fuertes como la depresión, el suicidio, la soledad, el bullying, entre otras cuestiones típicas de la adolescencia. Sophia Laurent nos va...
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"Documents the achievements of Black women from slavery to modern times and provides a thorough history of Black women and heroines." -Midwest Book Review
Brave black women have played important roles in American history. Before the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, black women bore the bonds of slavery with courage and strength. Since Emancipation, black women have supported schools, churches, and civic organizations, entered many professions,...
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"You Are Amazing, Girl" is a powerful and inspiring collection of stories that celebrates the courage, friendship, inner strength and self-confidence of young girls. This book features 10 different stories, each featuring a brave and resilient girl who overcomes obstacles and finds success in her own unique way. In this book, girls will find relatable characters and compelling narratives that encourage them to dream big and chase their passions. From...
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Meggy arrives in London expecting to be welcomed by her father, who sent for her, but he doesn't want her to assist in his laboratory when he sees that not only is she female, she needs two sticks to walk. Sent on trivial errands, she learns to navigate the city, which is earthy and colorful as well as dirty, noisy, and filled with rogues and thieves. Meanwhile she is befriended by the alchemist's former assistant, and when it appears that her father...
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