Children & Young Adults Fiction - Social Issues - Self-esteem & Self-reliance

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The Mixed-Up Chameleon

Eric Carle

Except for catching flies and changing colors occasionally, this chameleon doesn't find life very exciting. When a surprise visit to the zoo makes this wistful lizard realize it can change its shape and size as easily as its color, it...

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Published: Feb 1988

Arthur and the School Pet (Step-Into-...

Marc Tolon Brown

During Christmas vacation week, D.W. volunteers to take the classroom pet gerbil, Speedy, home for the holidays. D.W. plans to teach him some new tricks to show her class, but soon learns that taking care of a gerbil isn't as easy as ...

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Published: Jan 2003

Ghost Boy

Iain Lawrence

Harold Kline is an albino—an outcast. Folks stare and taunt, calling him Ghost Boy. IIt's been that way for all of his 14 years. So when the circus comes to town, Harold runs off to join it. Full of colorful performers, the circus s...

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Published: Mar 2002

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Gabrielle Zevin

If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss.She wouldn't have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn't have hit her head on the steps.She wouldn't have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia.She certainl...

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Published: Jun 2009

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to Y...

Peter Cameron

This is the story of one summer in the life of James Sveck, aged eighteen. James is a sophisticated, vulnerable young man with a deep appreciation for the world, and no idea how to live in it. His parents are suspect, his sister is pr...

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Published: Apr 2009

Revenge of the Girl With the Great Pe...

Elizabeth Eulberg

A hilarious novel from Elizabeth Eulberg about taking the wall out of the wallflower so she can bloom.Don't mess with a girl with a great personality.Everybody loves Lexi. She's popular, smart, funny . . . but she's never been one of ...

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Published: Feb 2014

Someplace to Call Home

Sandra Dallas

In 1933, what's left of the Turner family--twelve-year-old Hallie and her two brothers--finds itself driving the back roads of rural America. The children have been swept up into a new migratory way of life. America is facing two deva...

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Published: Feb 2020

Swimmy

Leo Lionni

Two best friends, a minnow and a tadpole, are practically inseparable until the tadpole grows legs and decides to explore the world beyond the pond. When the tadpole, now a frog, returns to tell his friend of the extraordinary things ...

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Published: Jan 2017

Rani Patel In Full Effect

Sonia Patel

Almost seventeen, Rani Patel appears to be a kick-ass Indian girl breaking cultural norms as a hip-hop performer in full effect. But in truth, she's a nerdy flat-chested nobody who lives with her Gujarati immigrant parents on the remo...

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Published: Oct 2016

I Like Me! (Picture Puffins)

Nancy Carlson

Little ones in need of positive reinforcement will find it here. An exuberant pig proclaims 'I like me!' She likes the way she looks, and (all her) activities . . . when she makes a mistake she picks herself up and tries again.'--Book...

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Published: May 1990
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