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Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Rad comes home to find his father lying broken and dead at the bottom of the ravine behind their house. Rad's twin brother, shaken but very much alive, had watched their father fall. Desperate to understand what has happened before calling the police, Rad confronts his brother and the complicated landscape of their past. He reconstructs not just the circumstances leading to his father's death, but the history of his family. How...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the spirit of Where the Wild Things Are, readers will journey with Angus and understand that whether you are grumpy, angry, or mad, there is no place better than home with your loved ones.
Angus woke up mad and knew today was not his day. His dachshund, Clive, walked too slowly. His canary, Pennycake, was too loud. And to top it off, his breakfast pancakes were way too skinny.Angus was in a bad mood, and he decided to run away. He walked two blocks,...
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2023.
Language
English
Description
Channeling their own experiences, sixteen exceptional authors subvert mental health stereotypes in a powerful and uplifting collection of fiction. A teen activist wrestles with protest-related anxiety and PTSD. A socially anxious vampire learns he has to save his town by (gulp) working with people. As part of her teshuvah, a girl writes letters to the ex-boyfriend she still loves, revealing that her struggle with angry outbursts is related to PMDD....