Harper, Charise Mericle
Summary: In this informative graphic narrative for ages 8-12, bestselling middle grade cartoonist Charise Mericle Harper dives deep into that everyday source of stress and humor for kids--embarrassment. With science facts, jokes, and compassion (and some slapstick) this book lets kids know they aren't alone and puts them at ease, with practical information and fun facts that all add up to we've all been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2020
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: J 152.4 HARQualey, Marsha
Summary: Gracie LaRoo's synchronized swimming team trades out water for snow. But Gracie is afraid of heights and has never been on skiis. Can she overcome her fears in time to shine, or is this trip going downhill fast?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2019
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Summary: Yasmin and her friend Emma are going to the ice rink, but Yasmin is nervous and does not want to admit that she has never skated, so she delays going on the ice as long as possible--but when she falls down Emma's mother offers to teach her, and Emma helps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE FARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FARSummary: "101 reasons to laugh out loud. If laughter is the best medicine, then this book is your prescription. Turn off the news and spend a few days not following current events. Instead, return to the basics -- humanity's ability to laugh at itself. Maybe you should even do a news cleanse for a few days! Hide under the covers and read these stories instead. Or read a chapter a day, or a story a day...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.43 CHIFaruqi, Saadia
Summary: Second grader Ali Tahir considers himself to be a dinosaur expert, but on a class field trip to the natural history museum, Ali keeps getting his facts wrong, and is embarrassed in front of his friends and classmates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FARJohn, Jory
Summary: Jeff the bear is sure he has forgotten something when he sets out from home, but none of the animals he meets initially inform him that he is only wearing his underwear, until he reaches his friend Anders the hare--who quickly thinks of a way to avoid embarrassing Jeff, by starting a fashion trend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers/Macmillan Children's Publishing Group 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOHGibeault, Stephanie
Summary: When Toby accidently toots at his birthday party, he is teased by friends and family, but he learns how to get over his embarrassment when his grandmother gives him a lesson on how to handle life's hiccups and other unexpected eruptions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GIBBlume, Judy.
Summary: His younger brother's obsession with money and the discovery of long-lost cousins Flora and Fauna provide many embarrassing moments for twelve-year-old Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD BLUGomez, Blanca
Summary: Sick at home, a young girl misses the costume party at school, so she decides to wear her rabbit costume the next day; but when the other children laugh at her, she is sad--until a boy turns up in his carrot costume, and soon the other children join in their play.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2022
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Summary: Enferma en casa, una niña se pierde la fiesta de disfraces en la escuela, por lo que decide ponerse su disfraz de conejo al día siguiente; pero cuando los otros niños se ríen de ella, ella está triste, hasta que aparece un niño con su disfraz de zanahoria, y pronto los otros niños se unen a su juego.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2022
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Summary: Everyone loves to hear Phoenix sing, but Goose just lets out a big squawk. This makes Goose turn red. Phoenix lets him in on a little secret- everyone feels embarrassed sometimes! Goose realizes that having a friend means he doesn't have to feel embarrassed alone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CULVernick, Audrey.
Summary: After an embarrassing incident, a young boy decides to quit school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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Summary: With a Valentine's Day dance, snooping parents, and way too many secrets, these four BFFs have a lot to deal with in the seventh book in this hilarious series told entirely in text messages, emojis, and passed notes, perfect for fans of Invisible Emmie and the Dork Diaries series. It's no secret that Victoria's mom can be OTT overprotective! But lately her anxiety has been too much to handle....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRESedaris, David.
Summary: From armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds to the awkwardness of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a sleeping fellow passenger on a plane, David Sedaris uses life's most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers. Culminating in a brilliantly funny account of his venture to Tokyo in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814.54 SEDBlume, Judy.
Summary: His younger brother's obsession with money and the discovery of long-lost cousins Flora and Fauna provide many embarrassing moments for twelve-year-old Peter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION BLUBrown, Marc Tolon.
Summary: It takes a really embarrassing moment in the school cafeteria to cure Arthur of his fear of being caught in his underwear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1999
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Summary: Amelia records in her diary a nightmare come true when her older sister tags along on a sixth-grade class trip, and Amelia must deal with her snoring and disgusting eating habits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MOSAngels of Light.
Contents: Evangeline.--Untitled love song.--My true body.--Jennifer's sorry.--Song for Nico.--New city in the future.--My suicide.--New York girls.--Public embarrassment blues.--Two women.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: M. Gira/Young God Publishing 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AngelMcCarthy, Jenny
Summary: Presents the lighter side of parenthood's first year, from postpartum embarrassment and baby diapers to sleep deprivation and grandparent eccentricity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 MCCSummary: A scathing black comedy of embarrassment, RID OF ME charts the emotional breakdown and rebirth of a woman ripe for self-discovery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Phase 4 Films (USA), LLC 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF RIDCusack, John
Summary: After being ditched by his girlfriend, Lane decides that suicide is the only answer. However his increasingly inept attempts bring him only more agony and embarrassment.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BETContents: Introduction: fairies fearsome, friendly and funny -- Uous / by Tanith Lee -- Grace notes / by Megan Lindholm -- The gypsies in the wood / by Kim Newman -- The kelpie / by Patricia A. McKillip -- An embarrassment of elves / by Craig Shaw Gardner -- Except the queen / by Jane Yolen and Midori Snyder -- Afterword: some facts (?) about fairies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAISummary: This contemporary drama is about romance between two imperfect, alcoholic, resentful ordinary people, neighbors in the suburbs, adults with enough money to support themselves in the discontent to which they have become accustomed. Terry Wolfmeyer, suburban Detroit mother of four girls, is suddenly abandoned by her husband, and sinks into depression and subsists on a steady diet of vodka tonics....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UPSCohen, Barbara
Summary: Told to make a doll like a pilgrim for the Thanksgiving display at school, Molly's Jewish mother dresses the doll as she herself dressed before leaving Russia to seek religious freedom--much to Molly's embarrassment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books 1983