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Finding Perfect
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2016
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Hidden Truths
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2023
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Dear Student
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2022
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Smart Cookie
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2018
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Give and Take
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2019
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Same Page
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2025
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| Outstanding! Roxie in Color by Diane Debrovner and Stacy Cervenka is a heartfelt gift of a story! Readers will fall in love with Roxie as she navigates misperceptions, secrets, and the nuances of middle school friendships. And they will cheer for her ...more | |
"Another winner from Elly Swartz! I loved the optimism of Bess and her expectation that people she knows would be "on her side" in the fight for putting all kinds of books in the book vending machine and then when that didn't happen, putting the banne"
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"Very well done middle grade novel about a timely topic. "
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"Such a great middle grade read. Good character development and excellent message."
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| What a huge privilege it was to get an early read of Nikki Grimes new book, Glory, Too. As I read these poems, I could feel Grimes’s gentle grace woven into every word. She reminds us that humanity brings us together to understand the healing power o ...more | |
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I had the privilege of getting an early read of this book. I loved it! This book will steal your heart and open your soul. Neshama by Marcella Pixley is a beautiful homage to the lessons our ancestors, the power of prayer, the transcendence of forgive ...more |
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“When your family is unfinished you have to finish it by getting messy... with (and without) cookies.”
― Smart Cookie
― Smart Cookie
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“Why do you do that?
Do what?
Blow off compliments.
I don't.
You kind of do.
Sorry.
Don't apologize. Just learn to say thanks.”
― Underwater
Do what?
Blow off compliments.
I don't.
You kind of do.
Sorry.
Don't apologize. Just learn to say thanks.”
― Underwater
“It turned out I wasn't dying on the outside. I was only dying on the inside, where nobody could see.”
― Underwater
― Underwater
“It was exactly one month since the Worst Thing had happened, and almost as long since I'd started not-talking. Which isn't refusing to talk, like everyone thinks it is. It's just deciding not to fill the world with words if you don't have to. It is the opposite of constant-talking, which is what I used to do, and it's better than small talk, which is what people wished I did.”
― The Thing About Jellyfish
― The Thing About Jellyfish
“I'd always thought that being seen was about what people perceived with their eyes. But by the time the Eugene Field Memorial Middle School made the fall trip to the aquarium, I, Suzy Swanson, had disappeared entirely. Being seen is more about the ears than the eyes, it turns out.”
― The Thing About Jellyfish
― The Thing About Jellyfish
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