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1) The Rabbit Listened

Author

Doerrfeld, Cori

Formats:

eAudiobook, SHES Materials

Description

A universal, deeply moving exploration of grief and empathy With its spare, poignant text and irresistibly sweet illustrations, The Rabbit Listened is a tender meditation on loss. When something terrible happens, Taylor doesn't know where to turn. All the animals are sure they have the answer. The chicken wants to talk it out, but Taylor doesn't feel like chatting. The bear thinks Taylor should get angry, but that's not quite right either. One by...

2) Goodbye, friend! Hello, friend!

Author

Doerrfeld, Cori

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook

Description

Two best friends understand that saying goodbye to one experience means saying hello to the next, but that does not make it easier when one friend has to move away.

3) Make way for Butterfly

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Formats:

Book, eAudiobook

Description

Butterfly learns from Bee that he too is a pollinator and can help in the important work of pollinating plants.

4) Not enough lollipops

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Description

Alice wins a wagon full of lollipops in a school raffle, but no one is sure if there are enough for everyone to have one.

5) All are neighbors

Author

Penfold, Alexandra

Description

"When a new family moves in, the whole neighborhood comes together to celebrate what makes their community diverse and special"--

6) Welcome back!

Author

Penfold, Alexandra

Description

Illustrations and rhyming text follow a group of children who learn how to write, spell, make friends, and be kind on the first day back at school.

7) Give What You Can

Author

Penfold, Alexandra

Description

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text introduce kids work together to give back to their community.

8) Wherever you go

Author

Penfold, Alexandra

Description

In simple, rhyming text, an adult expresses their love, hopes, and dreams for a child.

Author

Description

Tired of missing out on good things because he is the smallest and youngest in his family, Ravi turns into a tiger and gets what he wants with a great roar.

10) Perfectly Norman

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Description

Norman is thrilled to discover he grew a pair of wings overnight, but his excitement turns to doubt when he realizes he is now different from everyone else, causing him to question whether there is such thing as perfectly normal.

11) Ruby finds a Worry

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Description

A young girl's sense of adventure and exploration vanishes when she discovers a Worry that grows and grows until she learns how to get rid of it.

12) Meesha makes friends

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Description

"Meesha doesn't know quite what to do, what to say, or when to say it, and she struggles reading and responding to social cues. But one day, she discovers that she has a special talent that will help her navigate challenging social situations and make friends." --

13) Tilda tries again

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Description

Tilda withdraws when her world turns upside down, but, after watching a ladybug struggle and then fly free, she decides to move forward and embrace the changes.

14) A walk in the words

Author

Talbott, Hudson

Description

"Through a story from his own childhood, Hudson Talbott shares the challenges--and ultimately the rewards--of being a non-mainstream kind of learner"--

15) Milo imagines the world

Author

de la Pena, Matt

Formats:

Book, SHES Materials

Description

"Milo is on a long subway ride with his older sister. To pass the time, he studies the faces around him and makes pictures of their lives. There's the whiskered man with the crossword puzzle; Milo imagines him playing solitaire in a cluttered apartment full of pets. There's the wedding-dressed woman with a little dog peeking out of her handbag; Milo imagines her in a grand cathedral ceremony. And then there's the boy in the suit with the bright white...

16) Just help!: how to build a better world

Author

Sotomayor, Sonia

Description

Every night when Sonia goes to bed, Mami asks her the same question: How did you help today? And since Sonia wants to help her community, just like her Mami does, she always makes sure she has a good answer to Mami's question. In a story inspired by her own family's desire to help others, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor takes young readers on a journey through a neighborhood where kids and adults, activists and bus drivers, friends and strangers...

17) just ask be different be brave be you

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18) The year we learned to fly

Author

Woodson, Jacqueline

Formats:

Book, SHES Materials

Description

"By heeding their wise grandmother's advice, a brother and sister discover the ability to lift themselves up and imagine a better world"--

19) The day you begin

Author

Woodson, Jacqueline

Description

Publisher Annotation: There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you. There are many reasons to feel different. Maybe it's how you look or talk, or where you're from; maybe it's what you eat, or something just as random. It's not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody really knows you yet, but somehow you do it. Jacqueline Woodson's lyrical text and Rafael LÃ³pez's dazzling art reminds us that...

20) The cool bean

Author

Series

Food group series

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

"Everyone knows the cool beans. They're sooooo cool. And then there's the uncool has-bean . . . Always on the sidelines, one bean unsuccessfully tries everything he can to fit in with the crowd--until one day the cool beans show him how it's done.