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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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An anxiety disorder disrupts fourteen-year-old Audrey's daily life. She has been making slow but steady progress with Dr. Sarah, but when Audrey meets Linus, her brother's gaming teammate, she is energized. She connects with him. Audrey can talk through her fears with Linus in a way she's never been able to do with anyone before. As their friendship deepens and her recovery gains momentum, a sweet romantic connection develops, one that helps not just...
3) Paper heart
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Companion to: Tornado brain.
Mere months after her best friend's death, thirteen-year-old Tess spends a summer with family in Wyoming, making friends at art camp while being haunted by Colette and her own anxieties.
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English
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"Judy never intended to start wearing the dog. But when she stumbled across her son Teddy's old baby sling during a halfhearted basement cleaning, something in her snapped. So: the dog went into the sling, Judy felt connected to another living being, and she's repeated the process every day since. Life hasn't gone according to Judy's plan. Her career as a children's book author offered a glimpse of success before taking an embarrassing nose dive....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Hiding the truth about her unhappiness and struggles with anxiety from everyone including her family, best friend, and therapist, Andrea Bern joins her loved ones in a reevaluation of family strength in the wake of her newborn niece's heartbreaking ailment.
9) Exhalation
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English
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This much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and the temptation of second chances. In the epistolary "Exhalation," an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications not just for his own people, but for all of...
11) Why not me?
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Hollywood starlet Mindy Kaling shares her ongoing, laugh-out-loud journey to find contentment and excitement in her adult life.
12) The best at it
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Rahul Kapoor, an Indian-American boy growing up in small-town Indiana, struggles to come to terms with his identity, including that he may be gay.
14) Everything isn't terrible: conquer your insecurities, interrupt your anxiety, and finally calm down
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Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Take a deep breath and take your life back. There's no time like the present to break free of the downward spiral of negative thoughts and actions that feed anxiety--and this guide shows you how. Inside, you'll find sensitive and authoritative guidance on overcoming your worries and minimizing anxiety. These proven mindfulness techniques can help you face your fears, defeat persistent, irrational worries and finally slay the anxiety beast"--Page...
18) Anxiety, practical about panic: a practical guide to understanding and overcoming anxiety disorder
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Publisher
John Murray Learning
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Do you suffer from anxiety and panic? So did Joshua Fletcher, but he treated his own condition successfully, went back to school, became a counsellor and emerged as one of the country's leading experts on anxiety. Anxiety: practical about panic is a complete, easy-to-read and hugely practical book about anxiety from someone who knows how to recover and live your life to the full - and will show you how. Concentrating on the actions that you can take...
19) Dear student
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A girl with social anxiety becomes the secret voice of the advice column in her middle school newspaper"--
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