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Going Back to School
School is Cool!: Books for Kids
Sky Bear 2023
Going Back to School
School is Cool!: Books for Kids
Sky Bear 2023
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A school is more than just a building. It's a community of people, a place for discovery, and a place to explore!
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Drawing from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and from the worlds of theater, philosophy, history and education, one of the nation's leading writers and commentators helps us become more understanding and considerate toward others, and to find the joy that comes from being seen.
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"Double Take is a fact-packed look at how science is tackling stereotypes. In the intermediate grades, students are likely to encounter and recognize all kinds of stereotypes. Our brains constantly use categories to sort and label the things (and people) around us -- both with good results and frightening ones. This book explores how we all use stereotypes and how science can help us to build more equal societies, where fewer stereotypes exist and...
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A timely and important new book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture. Social scientist Brené 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. In Braving the Wilderness, Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of...
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When a flood damages Dunwiddle Middle School, Nory and her friends are sent to elite Sage Academy where Nory's sibling are and where her father is the headmaster. There the kids see a magical skunk garden and participate in Hide and Seek night, but Nory doesn't feel comfortable there. Then Nory's father insists she take the entrance exam for Sage again. Nory will have to decide where she belongs.
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"The story of twelve-year-old Alice, a misfit who is ignored by her own family and shipped off to boarding school. She'd love a friend, and one day she rescues mysterious Millie Maximus from drowning in a lake. Millie, it turns out, is a Bigfoot, part of a clan that lives deep in the woods. Alice swears to protect Millie and her tribe, and the two girls try to find a place where they both fit in."--
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Antiracist Books for Children-Elmahaba Center Instagram Live May 2022
Diverse Books - Celebrating Diversity
Diverse Books - Refugee Experience - Picture Books
Moving House: Books for Kids
Diverse Books - Celebrating Diversity
Diverse Books - Refugee Experience - Picture Books
Moving House: Books for Kids
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A homesick little girl who has recently moved to an unfamiliar country comforts herself by clinging to an old blanket, but when she meets a new friend, the relationship helps her take her first steps into a new culture.
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"In a crowded Chicago airport, an incident at TSA impacts twelve young Asian Americans, all strangers to one another before this day. As events cause their journeys to intertwine, they discover the challenges of friendship, the perils of younger siblings, the power or words, and the unexpected significance of a blue Stratocaster electric guitar. Twelve virtuoso authors draw from their own experiences to explore themes of identity and belonging in...
9) Moonflower
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Moon is convinced that she does not belong to this world: that most of the time she is invisible (unless she stays still too long), that she belongs to the stars, and wants to go back to them--she lives entirely in her imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest her words tie her to a world she rejects.
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"In the dead of night, a truck arrives in Slaughterville, a small town curiously named after its windowless slaughterhouse. Seven mysterious kids with suitcases step out of the vehicle and into an abandoned home on a dead-end street, looking over their shoulders to make sure they aren't noticed. When timid and lonely Ravani Foster covertly witnesses their arrival from his bedroom window, he is eager to learn everything he can about his new neighbors:...
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Explore the depths of human behavior with John Dewey's 'Human Nature and Conduct.' This masterful treatise delves into social psychology, dissecting the forces shaping our actions and society. Dewey's keen insights illuminate the intricate dance between individual impulses and the social fabric, drawing on philosophy and psychology. A thought-provoking exploration of ethics, habit, and the potential for human betterment, this book is a beacon for...
12) Tokyo ever after
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AANHPI Heritage Month- YA Authors
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month YA Books 2022
AANHPI Heritage Month- YA Authors
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month YA Books 2022
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After learning that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, Izumi travels to Tokyo, where she discovers that Japanese imperial life--complete with designer clothes, court intrigue, paparazzi scandals, and a forbidden romance with her handsome but stoic bodyguard--is a tough fit for the outspoken and irreverant eighteen-year-old from northern California.
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Explores the evidence behind the conspiracy theory that the alien reptilian elite rule everything, and details evidence involving alien abductions, the corruption and misdeeds of the elite, the fact that many elite rulers and leaders are related, and the interest of the elite in science and space. Includes color photographs, fact boxes, text-related questions, a glossary, and additional resources.
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Examines a wide number of racial stereotypes spoken about different sports, such as basketball being a black man's sport since white men can't jump, or else Asian athletes being too small or too slow to compete with athletes of other races, and profiles players who have broken those stereotypes. Includes a glossary.
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Freud argues that the individual psyche is inherently social, and that group psychology is an essential component of human behavior. He examines the way in which groups form, the role of leaders in groups, and the way in which group behavior can be both beneficial and destructive. Overall, "Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego" is a groundbreaking work that continues to influence the fields of psychology and sociology today. It provides a...
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New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly. Ideas, behavior, messages, and products, he argues, often spread like outbreaks of infectious disease. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a few fare-beaters and graffiti artists fuel a subway crime wave, or a satisfied customer fill the empty tables of a new restaurant. These are social epidemics,...
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Brianna Justice is already the president of the whole sixth grade and has future aspirations of being a cupcake bakery owner, and now she has added middle school journalist to her résumé--so it is totally unfair that a star of the nightly news broadcast is mentoring another student at Blueberry Hills Middle School, and Brianna gets stuck with a local reporter from the community news desk. Her story, however, becomes interesting when it comes to...
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In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The Tipping Point) aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers -- to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them," in other words: to understand how to balance trust and safety. He uses a variety of examples from history and recent headlines...