Windness, Kaz
Summary: "Bitsy is a little bat with big star dreams of making friends at her new school. But when she arrives, Bitsy doesn't feel like she fits in. The other kids sit on their chairs, but sitting upright makes Bitsy dizzy. The other kids paint with their fingers, but Bitsy would rather use her toes. Everyone tells Bitsy she's doing things wrong-wrong-wrong, so she tries harder...and ends up having a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WINDee, Jodi
Summary: "Zafera is a normal, beautiful little girl, yet she often has dirt on her hands and twigs in her hair. When Zafera goes to school for the first time, all the children laugh and tease. Find out how she becomes the most popular girl in school!"--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction DeeEsbaum, Jill
Summary: School shopping is no fun for Dylan--until he spots boots decorated with poison-dart frogs. They even glow in the dark! He can't wait to show them off in class. But then a kid exclaims: "Ms. Kory, that boy's wearing girl boots." Suddenly, everyone's laughing at Dylan and the boots don't seem so cool anymore. Will he ever wear them again? A timely story about staying true to yourself and defying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2019
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Summary: When Otter starts a school, Teddy becomes sad because the other students are all good at something and it seems he is not.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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Summary: Harry the hammerhead shark wishes he could be any other type of shark, but when a class trip to a famous shipwreck almost ends in disaster, Harry realizes the importance of being exactly who he is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC OCEGriffin, Molly Beth
Summary: Unnoticed by humans, Stella the Mouse, Nico the Toad, Delilah the Spider, and Bo the Parakeet compete, in their own special ways, during the school's Field Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2020
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Summary: "When Layla arrives for her first day of school at Unicornia, the school for unicorns, she realizes that she's not like the other kids there. They're all pastel colors and know the rules to Horn Ball and none of them come from the Woods like Layla does. Try as she might to make friends, Layla's just ... different. But when her class gets lost during a field trip to the Fiddle Dee Deep Forest,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HADDavis, Eleanor
Summary: Eleven-year-old Julian Calendar thought changing schools would mean leaving his "nerdy" persona behind, but instead he forms an alliance with fellow inventors Greta and Ben and works with them to prevent an adult from using one of their gadgets for nefarious purposes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2009
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Summary: Hope Roberts is a confident eleven-year-old girl who plans to be an astrophysicist, and who loves swimming, Galaxy Girl comic books, her best friend Sam, and her two rescue dogs (not necessarily in that order); but then she starts middle school, and suddenly she cannot seem to do anything right--even science club is a problem because she and another girl, Camilla, get stuck with the boring part...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Milano 2019Myracle, Lauren
Summary: Winnie's celebrates her unique style through her first year with a double-digit age as she has many new experiences, from the high of spending time in New York City with her aunt and big sister, to the low of her two best friends suddenly becoming interested in boys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Childrens Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MYRKashyap, Keshni.
Summary: Tina Malhotra, a sophomore at the Yarborough Academy in Southern California, creates an existential diary for an honors English assignment in which she tries to determine who she is and where she fits in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 KASZucker, Naomi Flink.
Summary: Eleven-year-old Callie Jones tries to keep track of all the rules for fitting in that other middle schoolers seem to know, but when the town decides to replace Halloween with an Autumn Festival, Callie leads her large family in an unusual protest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Egmont USA 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC ZUCPlourde, Lynn
Summary: A cautious mouse named Tiny gives advice to his best friend, an exuberant hippopotamus named Penelope, on such things as what to wear and what to take for show-and-tell on the first day of school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE PLOPérez, Celia C.
Summary: Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: JFIC PERSpinelli, Jerry.
Summary: In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SPIKann, Victoria.
Summary: When her classmates make fun of her for still liking the color pink, a little girl feels all alone, but then a friend shows her the power of pink.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KANMiller, Sharee
Summary: Eager to make a good first impression at her new middle school, thirteen-year-old Charlie does her best to fit in until she meets a group of diverse Black girls who show her the importance of authenticity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2000
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Summary: April is looking for an escape from the sixth-grade lunch hour, which has become a social-scene nightmare, so she signs up to be a buddy bench monitor for the fourth graders' recess. Joey Byrd is a boy on the fringes, who wanders the playground alone, dragging his foot through the dirt. But over time, April realizes that Joey isn't just making random circles. When you look at his designs from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PEACorey, Shana.
Summary: Pelly feels miserable because she looks different from her Martian classmates, but a glamorous opera singer who visits her class shows Pelly that her differences make her special.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC COREYDixon, Amy
Summary: No ordinary beast, Maurice is neat, polite, photogenic, and his roar is delightful to the ear, which leads his parents to enroll him at the Abominable Academy for Brutish Beasts, where he realizes he has a few things he can teach his fellow beasts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Dixon 2017McCafferty, Megan.
Summary: The day before seventh grade begins, twelve-year-old Jessica Darling gets a list from her sister, whose popularity and beauty made her a junior-high standout, but when she tries to follow it, all goes awry, including losing her best friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCCPolacco, Patricia
Summary: When Patricia starts at a new school she quickly becomes fast friends with fellow outcasts Thom and Ravanne and together they find a way to silence the school bully and his toadies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POLRawlinson, Julia.
Summary: Although he likes some things about school, Stomper does not do well with his lessons in stubbornness and is teased for not being like the other mules, but when disaster strikes and the others dig in, Stomper proves that being stubborn is not always the best choice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Books 2008