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Summary: "Information about why certain people, animals and things are considered "cute" and the scientific background, for children"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Kids 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 152 FLYBacon, Lindo
Summary: "Fat isn't the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesn't match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates 'thin' with 'healthy' is the problem. The solution? Health at every size. Tune in to your body's expert guidance. Find the joy in movement. Eat what you want, when you want, choosing pleasurable foods that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 BACClements, Andrew
Summary: A big, ugly fish has trouble making the friends he longs for because of his appearance--until the day his scary appearance saves them all from a fisherman's net.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Book Studio 1988
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CLEHarrison, Vashti
Summary: Praised for acting like a big girl when she is small, as a young girl grows, "big" becomes a word of criticism, until the girl realizes that she is fine just the way she is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction HarrisonCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HARCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE HARBedrick, David
Summary: Why is today's diet industry pulling in 70 billion dollars every year, while when people go on a diet, only five percent of them succeed and the rest gain weight or stay the same? Here's why: A heavy, shamed body is a body with an unheard message and a thwarted quest, and until the secrets are unlocked and the wisdom is harvested, that impasse will be unbreachable. In these pages, Bedrick...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belly Song Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 BEDPapademetriou, Lisa.
Summary: When Nicolette Spicer, Nick to her friends, meets Ben who seems to go for girly girls, Nick, who is a tomboy, considers a makeover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PAPFarina, Katy
Summary: Deciding a new haircut will give her the boost she needs, Karen is devastated when the hairstylist cuts her hair all wrong and wonders if she will ever get back to feeling like her usual confident self.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023
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Summary: "We all need emotional blinders: the etiquette that keeps society smoothly moving depends on it. But when you absolutely must rely on another person, you have to be able to assess them objectively. RED FLAGS shares simple strategies anyone can use to spot deceptive or downright dangerous people who use ingratiation and social convention to draw in and lull victims. Readers will learn how even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302 PATKubo, Mitsurou
Summary: Kinichiro isn't even that bad. It's just that on the first day of high school, his narrow eyes made him look shifty, so people assumed he was trouble. Now it's graduation, and he's looking back on three years with no friends. He never even joined a club. But after a bloody collision and an accidental fall, he wakes up a high school freshman, with the chance to try it all over... AGAIN!!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 AGAKubo, Mitsurou
Summary: "What makes a team work? Having finally found some confidence, Kinichiro is stepping up to the plate as the primary candidate for captain of the ouendan. But can a born rebel like him really become a leader? Usami wants to find out, and she's not afraid to toughen up her already harsh training regimen to do so. And when the ouendan's former captain natsuhiko Kondo, shows up, Uzami's sure he can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 AGASummary: A tall girl and a short guy are cast together in a romantic comedy at their school and find that they have strong feelings for each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LOVManne, Kate
Summary: "The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat it-from the acclaimed author of Down Girl and Entitled. For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024