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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gina Zoberski wants to make it through one day without her fastidious mother, Lorraine, cataloguing all her faults, and her sullen teenage daughter, May, snubbing her. Too bad there's no chance of that. Her relentlessly sunny disposition annoys them both, no matter how hard she tries. Instead, Gina finds order and comfort in obsessive list-making and her work at Grilled G's, the gourmet grilled cheese food truck built by her late husband. But when...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"BIG MAMA blog founder and New York Times bestselling author Melanie Shankle helps us sort through our questions about being true to ourselves in a world gone crazy and what matters the most in the end. These days, so many voices tell us what to do, what to think, and what kind of parent or friend or spouse to be that it's easy to feel overwhelmed and defeated. Somewhere in the midst of online arguments and crazy politics and the ups and downs of...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When Maribel's family has to move in with Tía Carmen because Papi lost his job, Maribel and her sister feel unsettled. It's not always easy sharing a room or being in a house full of loud cousins, but Papi reminds the girls that it's only por un ratito--just for a little while. In the meantime, there is always someone to play with, the mealtimes are filled with music and laughter, and bedtime is for snuggling in tight"--
27) Lovely day
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Bill Withers's 1977 feel-good hit 'Lovely Day' is famous for bringing listeners joy, even on the darkest of days. The song's joyful energy is brought to life in this beautiful picture book inspired by Withers's timeless lyrics! Young readers will delight in following the story of a young brother and sister who always find a way to make each other smile, no matter the challenges the day may bring."--
29) The bright side
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes it's hard to stay positive. Like when you live in an old school bus instead of a normal house... Or when you have mostly just bread and ketchup to eat... And especially when you have to go to a new school where all the other kids already have friends. But the sweet and imaginative boy in this book discovers that he has a tremendous talent he can use: He knows how to look on the bright side! And when he does, he can accomplish just about...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In the face of increasing levels of depression affecting American children, a new edition of a guide to preventing childhood depression shows parents and educators how to instill optimism, resilience, and confidence in children, enabling them to feel self-reliant, boost self-esteem, and perform better in school.
31) The amateurs
Author
Publisher
Vintage Canada
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Allow us to introduce you to the newest product from PINA, the world's largest tech company. "Port" is a curiously irresistible device that offers the impossible: space-time travel mysteriously powered by nostalgia and longing. Step inside a Port and find yourself transported to wherever and whenever your heart desires: a bygone youth, a dreamed-of future, the fabled past.
32) Don't stop
Author
Series
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
McVie's classic song about keeping one's chin up and rolling with life's punches is beautifully adapted to an uplifting children's book. Don't Stop is a beautifully illustrated picture book based on Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac's enduring anthem to optimism and patience. The song was one of the singles on Fleetwood Mac's megahit album Rumours, which spent thirty-one weeks at number one on the Billboard charts and went on to sell over forty million...
33) Sunny
Author
Publisher
Roaring Book Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Most people would say there is nothing good about trudging to school on a rainy day. Most people would say that being carried away by the wind and dropped into the middle of a tumultuous sea is a very bad sort of situation. No, most people wouldn't like that at all. But, Sunny isn't most people. Sunny likes to look on the bright side. And when things get exceedingly bleak? Well, isn't that what friends are for?--
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Let's be honest--none of us were given an owner's manual at birth. If you're having trouble solving a problem or making a dream happen, the problem isn't you. It's not that you're not hardworking, intelligent or deserving, but that you haven't yet installed the one key belief that will change everything. My mom, who has the tenacity of a bulldog and curses like a truck driver, explained it to me this way, "Nothing in life is that complicated. You...
Author
Publisher
Flamingo Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Based on a viral video comes the story of one boy's positive energy and how a sunny outlook can turn everything around. It's a new day and Ayaan has woken up on the wrong side of the bed, where nothing feels quite right. What if he doesn't know the answer at school? What if he messes up? But as he sets out that morning, all it takes is a few reminders from his mom and some friends in the neighborhood to remind him that a new day is a good day because......
Author
Publisher
Casa Creación
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
"¿Quizás la vida le ha golpeado tanto que ha estado tentado a renunciar? Todo el mundo se desanima cuando nuestro adversario se asegura de atacarnos. Según Joyce Meyer, ese es el punto donde es necesario reconocer dónde está la raíz del pensamiento y rechazarlo. Dios no lo ha ungido para que se rinda. Sin importar los obstáculos o tentaciones que hayan llegado, ¡usted debe optar por no ceder a esas presiones o renunciar!" -- Publisher description....
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
At seventeen years old, Ruthie Lindsey is hit by an ambulance near her home in rural Louisiana. She's given a five percent chance of survival and one percent chance of walking again. One month later after a spinal fusion surgery, Ruthie defies the odds, leaving the hospital on her own two feet. Just a few years later, newly married and living in Nashville, Ruthie begins to experience debilitating pain. Her case confounds doctors and after numerous...
Author
Publisher
Paw Prints Publishing
Pub. Date
c2022
Language
English
Description
"Written in partnership with an accomplished child therapist, A Smile in Your Pocket combines sweet art and rhythmic text to tell a charming story that focuses on CASEL standards of social emotional development, and more specifically about combating negative emotions and the power of positivity. And, so begins a series of change that turns young Miles' day upside down. Once friendly and familiar, everything on that school walk now seems distant, sad,...
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