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822) Anonymous noise: 8
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"Yuzu and Nino have been tasked with writing the debut song for a popular fashion-model duo. They manage to complete their first collaboration...but to what end? Meanwhile, Tsukika goes in search of Momo, but will she be able to find him when all she has is a questionable lead?"--Back cover.
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"Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi's greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve! Luckily she meets Tadano, a timid wallflower who decides to step out of his comfort zone in order to help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends... Komi's friendship quest just hit its first major obstacle--the green-eyed monster! Tadano and a girl named Onemine have been hanging...
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The summer before entering sixth grade, Sammy, a bright and charming boy, suddenly began to exhibit disturbing behaviors. His mother, Beth, already overwhelmed by the responsibility of raising three sons alone, watched helplessly as her middle child descended into madness. Sammy was soon diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and later with Tourette syndrome. Unwilling to accept the prognosis of lifelong mental illness and repeated hospitalizations,...
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"Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi's greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve. Luckily she meets Tadano, a timid wallflower who decides to step out of his comfort zone in order to help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends. It's White Day! Traditionally, guys give girls a gift to thank them for their Valentine's Day chocolate. But the boys of Itan High...
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"Love blooms between a tough delinquent boy and a spunky girl with a vision impairment! Morio Kurokawa is the toughest-looking tough guy around. Yukiko Akaza is a self-possessed girl with a vision impairment attending a school for the blind. The whole city fears Morio, but Yukiko sees the real him--he's a soft sweetheart who's just searching for his place in the world! Yukiko is continuing to adapt well to her part-time job when she bumps into Kurisu,...
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Mean girl Nikki Baylor, accused of a cyberbullying incident that nearly resulted in a classmate's suicide, is expelled from school, abandoned by her friends, and distrusted by her parents but she gets a second chance after meeting Pax, a spirited wheelchair rugby player.
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"Buffy struggles to deal with her mom Joyce's newfound interest in spending time with her. Balancing that with her schoolwork, her friends, and her regular vampire-slaying duties is a challenge. However, when Joyce becomes hypnotized by a child-like demon that craves motherly care, Buffy experiences a new kind of sibling rivalry--except in Buffy's case, her "sibling" is actually a monster! Author Kel McDonald (Misfits of Avalon) and artist Yishan...
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Mal, Evie, Dizzy, Celia, and even Uma have a special bond. After all, friendships are like family when your parents are wicked. Through the magic of friendship, these Isle of the Lost Ladies have shown the girls of Auradon, like Jane, what it means to be a loyal and true. Follow their poignant and funny stories in this friendship anthology that prove love, trust, and support often comes from the person you'd least expect--even a villain.
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In this exposé of how young girls are sexualized in today's media, the author uses examples from popular TV shows, magazines, movies, and Web sites to show for the first time all the ways in which sexuality is defined in media--often in ways detrimental to girls' healthy development--as well as effective and progressive strategies for resisting the violations and repressions that render girls sexually subordinate.
837) Wandance: 1
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"Kaboku Kotani is starting high school, and he plans to do what he's always done: go along with his friends, keep quiet, and not draw too much attention to himself. After all, it's hard enough to get by with a stutter like his-- why make things worse by standing out from the crowd? But then he sees another first-year, Hikari Wanda, dancing like no one is watching-- or like she doesn't care who sees her. It makes Kaboku wonder: Could he reach that...
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"I'm nothing like you... Shizuku Mitzutani and Haru Yoshida have been going steady... or so they thought. After a little incident, Shizuku begins to harbor feelings of jealousy, and the vast differences between them suddenly feel impossible to overlook. How could Haru understand the way she feels? At the birthday party for Haru's brother, the two get into a heated argument. After their falling out, Haru falls into old habits and he stops coming to...
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This interactive video is made to spark discussion about peer pressure and conflict resolution among deaf and hard-of-hearing middle and high school students. The goals are to teachs tudents that there are many ways to resolve conflicts, to show that conflicts can be resolved in a positive manner, and to help students learn problem-solving skills that lead to the best choices.
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"With a dispassionate but tender eye, Thompson captures the ache, fizz, yearning and frustration of being the father of adolescent boys--and of adolescence itself, observed and remembered." --Michael Chabon. What makes a good father, and what makes one a failure? Does less-is-more parenting inspire independence and strength, or does it encourage defiance and trouble? Kickflip Boysis the story of a father's struggle to understand his willful skateboarder...