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Failure (Psychology) Failure (Psychology) Fiction Failure (Psychology) Juvenile fiction Perseverance (Ethics) Fiction Perseverance (Ethics) Juvenile fiction Persistence Fiction Persistence Juvenile fiction Picture books for children Self-confidence Fiction Self-confidence Juvenile fictionMaddox, Jake
Summary: Eighth-grader and starting point guard Roman is initially thrilled when big man Sebastian transfers schools and joins the team, but Sebastian's skills seem to have disappeared and the other kids are merciless in their criticism--then Roman's big sister gives him some advice: talk to Sebastian and find out what is going on, and add a pick-and-roll to the team playbook.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MADBeaty, Andrea
Summary: "Rosie Revere is no stranger to flops and fails, kerfuffles and catastrophes. After all, she's an engineer, and engineering is all about perseverance! But sometimes, Rosie has a really important project to tackle -- one that feels much bigger than herself. When Rosie's beloved Aunt Rose and her pals the Raucous Riveters -- a gaggle of fun-loving gals who built airplanes during World War II --...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC BEAMaddox, Jake
Summary: Because she is now over six feet tall everybody expects Juniper to be good at basketball, especially her demanding coach (who also happens to be her father)--but she is not sure that she even likes basketball, and she definitely does not like the pressure that she feels when she misses a shot and her father benches her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADMaddox, Jake.
Summary: Best friends Olivia and Jessica are good runners, but Olivia is uncomfortable with competition, so when her friend talks her into joining the track team and Olivia is assigned to a long distance race, she is suddenly overcome by a fear of failure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2013
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MADBeaty, Andrea.
Summary: A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2013
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E BEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BEACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC BEAYamada, Kobi
Summary: "How will you know what's possible if you don't try? This is a story for anyone who has ever felt like a beginner, or had doubts, or worried they weren't good enough. It's a story for those who have experienced the pain of trying something new and not having it turn out as they had hoped. So, in many ways, it is a sotry for every one of us. Because at some point in our lives, we will all fail....
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG YAMZgheib, Yara
Summary: A French ballerina with self-perception challenges descends into anorexia when an injury sidelines her career, landing her in a support home for women with life-threatening eating disorders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ZGHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZGHManushkin, Fran
Summary: Katie is enrolled in a gymnastics class, but when she has trouble doing some of the moves she gets discouraged and considers dropping out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE MANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MANGrant, Allison Sweet
Summary: A worried leaf who fears falling when autumn approaches resolves to find a different way down and races the wind to work with a friend to create a net, a kite, and a parachute in the hope of softening his landing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRABeaty, Andrea
Summary: When Rosie is unable to invent a contraption to help one of Aunt Rose's Raucous Riveters friends, she calls on classmates Iggy Peck and Ada Twist to help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2018
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Series Questioneers Beaty 2018Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BEACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BEAFord, Richard
Contents: Privacy -- Quality time -- Calling -- Reunion -- Puppy -- Crèche -- Under the radar -- Dominion -- Charity -- Abyss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORZgheib, Yara
Summary: Yara Zgheibs poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young womans struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life. The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZGHMaddox, Jake
Summary: When wide receiver Ethan drops a touchdown pass and his team loses the game, he starts to doubt his own abilities, but as the next game approaches he realizes that he has to do what his father and coaches are telling him to do--stop obsessing about failure and get back to playing confident football.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADRogers, Brian
Summary: "An aspiring actor, two truant teenagers, a musical composer and his wife, a single mother, an aspiring major leaguer, and a social climber accused of murder - these are the characters that populate The Whole of the Moon. Set along historic Route 66 and loosely linked by a library copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Brian Rogers' novel is about determination and failure and life in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nevada Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROGBellow, Saul.
Summary: A suffering and persecuted intellectual, Moses E. Herzog passively accepts the disasters of his private and public affairs in an effort to survive modern civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELStewart, Trenton Lee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Methodist University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEBeaty, Andrea
Summary: When Rosie is unable to invent a contraption to help one of Aunt Rose's Raucous Riveters friends, she calls on classmates Iggy Peck and Ada Twist to help.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Molk, Laurel
Summary: Izzy's unsuccessful knitting projects turn out to be the perfect sweaters for all the dogs in the dog park.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MOLHernandez, Laurie
Summary: "Even Olympians have to start somewhere. And in this charming illustrated book, Laurie Hernandez tells the story of Zoe, a little girl who dreams of flying--and becoming a gymnast. When Zoe sees a gymnast on TV, she realizes that gymnastics is just like flying. But when she first goes to class and falls off the balance beam, she discovers that following her dreams is harder and scarier than she...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Howard, Paige
Summary: Little pigeon Petite is too scared to join her siblings for their first flight, but with her family's encouragement she finally tries--falls--and learns a lesson about fear, failure, and strength that will carry her through life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction HowardYamada, Kobi
Summary: How will you know what's possible if you don't try? This is a story for anyone who has ever felt like a beginner, or had doubts, or worried they weren't good enough. It's a story for those who have experienced the pain of trying something new and not having it turn out as they had hoped. So, in many ways, it is a story for every one of us. Because at some point in our lives, we will all fail....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021