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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy--as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother's stories, in the Land-of-Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas, where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal. When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing...
2) Anthem
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Equality 7-2521 lives in the Dark Ages of the future, where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, all traces of individualism have been wiped out. But the spark of individual thought and freedom still burns in Equality 7-2521, a passion which he has been taught to call sinful. In a purely egalitarian world, he dares to stand forth from the herd -- to think and choose for himself, to discover electricity, and to love...
3) Sloppy Joe
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sloppy Joe determines to do everything he can to surprise his family by becoming Neat Joe.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
High school classmates Gracie and Savanna are total opposites and best friends, until Savanna's lying and manipulative behavior begin to bother Gracie, who wonders if it is time she started thinking for herself.
Author
Series
Bobby Ellis-Chan books volume 2
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grader Bobby is hurt when he hears his father, a former pro-football player, say that they two of them are nothing alike, but finally summons the courage to talk about it after his public asthma attack proves how right his father is.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Geisel Award for Beginning Readers
Children's Recommended: 1st Grade
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Recommended: 1st Grade
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Formats
Description
Ling and Ting are identical twins that people think are exactly the same, but time and again they prove to be different.
Author
Series
Dawei Maiji zuo pin. Aima xi lie volume 1
Publisher
He ying chu ban she
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
All the elephants of the jungle are gray except Aima who is a patchwork of brilliant colors. He gets tired of being different and trys to change his appearance to be like others.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
As the end of sixth grade nears, Jordan Johnson, unhappy that she is only average in appearance, intelligence, and athletic ability, reveals her special skills when disaster strikes her central Illinois elementary school.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their parents, aunties and uncles, they've learned to live their own lives alongside the expectations of being good Muslim women...With growing older and the stakes of love and life growing higher, the delicate balancing act between rebellion and religion is becoming increasingly difficult to navigate. As their lives begin to take different paths,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"As a full moon rises over Melbourne, Australia, a young woman gets ready for a party. She is autistic, yet within her mind, she is whoever she wants to be. What appears to an ordinary night out is - through the prism of her singular perspective - extraordinary. As the evening unfolds, each encounter reveals the vast discrepancies between what she is thinking and feeling, and what she is able to say. And there's so much she'd like to say. So when...
11) Stellaluna
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Primary)
Children's Collection Highlight: Wonderbooks
Children's Collection Highlight: Wonderbooks
Formats
Description
After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother.
Author
Series
Yue shi jie volume 121
Publisher
Tian pei wen hua you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother s stories, in the Land-of-Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas, where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal. When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing...
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