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1) Daring greatly: how the courage to be vulnerable transforms the way we live, love, parent, and lead
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on twelve years of research, thought leader Dr. Brené Brown argues that vulnerability is not weakness, but rather our clearest path to courage, engagement, and meaningful connection.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the worldwide bestselling author of Eat Pray Love: the path to the vibrant, fulfilling life you've dreamed of. Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert's books for years. Now this beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With profound empathy and radiant generosity, she offers potent insights into the mysterious...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
In this skillfully told novel by the author of The Bean Trees, a young woman returns to her hometown to care for her father and, without knowing it, herself. As usual, Codi is seeking to avoid life, but instead she finds plenty of it. She begins a complicated romance with a former boyfriend, corresponds with her sister, Hallie, who is kidnapped and then murdered in Nicaragua, tries to convince her father that his declining mental abilities are interfering...
4) Unsheltered
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Language
English
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Description
How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law...
5) Brave Irene
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 630L
Language
English
Description
When her mother, the town dressmaker, falls ill, little Bobbin braves a fierce snowstorm and other perils and pitfalls to deliver a beautiful gown to the duchess in time for the ball.
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Language
English
Description
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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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Relates how Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his terrible fear of the sea, which killed his mother when he was a baby, and proves his courage to himself and his people.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1410L
Language
English
Description
"During 1954-1955, John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. Senator, chose eight of his historical colleagues to profile for their acts of astounding integrity in the face of overwhelming opposition. These heroes include John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, and Robert A. Taft." "Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, Profiles in Courage - now reissued in this handsome hard-cover edition, featuring a new introduction by Caroline Kennedy, as well...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
With their honor restored, Hal and his fellow Herons leave Skandia again on a new mission--to track down and stop Hal's nemesis, Tursgud, a bullying youth-turned vicious pirate and slave trader.
12) Coraline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
14) Into the wild
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Series
Warriors volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
For generations, four clans of wild cats have shared the forest. When their warrior code is threatened by mysterious deaths, a house cat named Rusty may turn out to be the bravest warrior of all.
15) Wringer
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
16) Cowardly Clyde
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1979.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 910L
Language
English
Description
For a war horse, Clyde is an abysmal coward, but he finally decides that even if he isn't brave he can at least act brave.
17) Dragon keeper
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
An orphan slave girl becomes a Dragon Keeper when she heroically comes to the aid of an aging dragon and both go on a dangerous journey across China to protect a mysterious stone vital to the dragon's legacy.
18) The invaders
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"Hal and the other Herons face many perils as they track down the pirates who stole Skandia's most prized artifact, the Andomal"--
19) Lone wolf
Author
Series
Wolves of the Beyond volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by his pack, a baby wolf with a mysterious mark on his deformed paw survives and embarks on a journey that will change the world of the wolves of the Beyond.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Fifty years after Hannah Arendt examined the dynamics of conformity in her seminal account of the Eichmann trial, "Beautiful Souls" explores the flipside of the banality of evil, mapping out what impels ordinary people to defy the sway of authority and convention.
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