Luke Reynolds
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Author Luke Reynolds's humorous and heart-warming contemporary novel, The Looney Experiment, chronicles one boy's journey through bullying, first love, and an up-close examination of the meaning of courage. Atticus Hobart couldn't feel lower. He's in love with a girl who doesn't know he exists, he is the class bully's personal punching bag, and to top it all off, his dad has just left the family. Into this drama steps Mr. Looney, a 77-year-old substitute...
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Middle grades and young adult authors speak candidly on the unspoken rules of adolescence in this collection of moving, inspiring, and often funny essays. This unique volume encourages readers to break with conformity and defy age-old, and typically inaccurate, orthodoxy including such conventions as Boys can't be gentle, kind, or caring; One must wear Abercrombie Fitch in order to fit in; Girls should act like girls; and One must go to college after...
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The bond between a father and his son is as powerful as a rocket ship blasting into space, a giant whale splashing across the ocean, and booming, colorful fireworks lighting up the night sky. Celebrating that one-of-a-kind relationship between Dad and his favorite little guy, If My Love Were a Fire Truck is a rhyming love song from fathers to sons that will become a cherished part of their lives for many years to come. --Publisher
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"Earn good grades. Be the star athlete. Get rich and famous. and do it all while juggling fireballs and balancing swords on your head! Success should never involve struggle, fear, rejection, and failure, right? Wrong! Success means copying the goals of whoever is most popular, most revered, and most celebrated by culture, right? Wrong again! Success and failure don't have to be defined by social media (whew!)-because sometimes the most significant...
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"Magazine spreads and Hollywood hits showcase stars with perfect skin, perfect faces, perfect hair, perfect lives, perfect... everything. But what if the absence of scars is really a lie? And what if, underneath all that perfection, something far more powerful and authentic is waiting to be seen, shown, and heard? In Braver Than I Thought, kids meet the true stories of remarkable people whose scars have been a part of their journey, who have helped...
9) Gum luck
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Gumazing gum girl! volume 2
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Gabby Gomez keeps her Gum Girl heroics secret from her parents, but there is a new villain in town and the city needs her to help.
10) Popped star
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Gumazing gum girl! volume 3
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As Gabby Gomez is trying to tell her family she is Gum Girl, she encounters Ninja-Rina, a masked ballerina for whom no crime is "tutu" big.
11) Stick together!
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Gumazing gum girl! volume 5
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"Back from Spring Break and the trip of a lifetime, where Gabby met her uncle Sol Azteca, a famous luchador, and learned about her roots - Gabby has a new friend by her side . . . former bully Natalie Gooch. With their friendship blossoming, Gabby is eager to fight for justice and protect her town. But when a former substitute teacher returns to Fillmore Elementary acting a little bit nutty, Gabby learns that danger might be closer than it seems....