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Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his bestselling memoir, Look Me in the Eye, the author described growing up with Asperger's syndrome at a time when the diagnosis didn't exist. He was intelligent but socially isolated; his talents won him jobs with toy makers and rock bands but did little to endear him to authority figures and classmates, who were put off by his inclination to blurt out non sequiturs and avoid eye contact. By the time he was diagnosed at age forty, he had already...
Author
Publisher
Atria Boks
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
""A modern coming-of-age full of love, desperation, heartache, and magic" (Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author) about "the ways in which family, grief, love, queerness, and vulnerability all intersect" (Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author). Perfect for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Thirty Names of Night"--
Though Owen Tanner has never met anyone else who has a chatty bird in their chest, medical forums...
Author
Series
Unicorn and Yeti volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Incorporated
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Fountas & Pinnell
J
Physical Desc
56 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Yeti and Unicorn can't always agree, whether it's about which shape is most pleasing, whose style of painting is best, or, more serious, how to divide up a pie--but the two friends always find a way past their differences, because their friendship is important to both.
Author
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tess Newhart knows her ex-boyfriend Nick Jamieson isn't the right guy for her. He's caviar and champagne; she's take-out Chinese pot stickers. He's an uptight Republican lawyer; she was raised in a commune. He wants to get ahead in business; she just wants...him. But there's no way Tess will play second fiddle to his job.
Yet somehow she finds herself agreeing to play his fiancée on a weekend business trip that could make or break Nick's career....
Yet somehow she finds herself agreeing to play his fiancée on a weekend business trip that could make or break Nick's career....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volumes (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Represents a variety of families, some big and some small, some with only one parent and some with two moms or dads, some quiet and some noisy, but all alike in some ways and special no matter what.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
[29] pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Dino Duckling can dive, swim and fish just like his duckling brothers and sisters. But when the time comes for the family to fly south for the winter, Dino Duckling finds he really is different!
8) Someone new
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When three children are introduced to new classmates from different ethnic backgrounds, they strive to overcome their initial reactions and to understand, accept, and welcome Maria, Jin, and Fatima.
9) Love story
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Funny, touching and infused with wonder, as all love stories should be." -San Francisco Examiner
The iconic tale of love and loss that has touched the hearts of millions, Love Story has become one of the most adored novels of our time. It has sold more than twenty-one million copies worldwide and became a blockbuster film starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGraw. It is the story that told the world, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." This...
10) I'm from
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Early morning wakeups and homemade pancakes, Raucous bus rides and schoolyard games, Family games and bedtime rituals... These are the small moments that shape a child's day. I'm From is an invitation into the vivid world of one small boy, a poetic account of all the people and places and things that shape who he is and define where he is from"--
11) Frankie's world
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
258 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Frankie is different from everyone in her class, and she can't figure out why. She has trouble concentrating, and her classmates tease her for not having a dad at home. To try to make sense of the world, Frankie doodles her daily adventures in a journal. One day, when Frankie sneaks into her mom's room and sees her biological father's name on her birth certificate, she decides to go on a mission to track him down. Could Frankie's father be the key...
12) Carrot and pea
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Although he is different in size, color, and shape, the peas like and accept their friend, Colin the carrot.
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