Fancy Nancy
"In this collection of twelve . . . stories, join Fancy Nancy as she puts on her own dog show, learns to ice skate, goes on a camping adventure, and more! With each story timed to be a five-minute read-aloud, this storybook makes anytime the .
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 237
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 420
subjects: individuality [X], clothing and dress, manners and customs, family, costume, parties, schools, hundredth day of school, school stories, vocabulary, sisters, dolls, fancy nancy (fictitious character), beaches, sandcastles, costume and dress, family life, domestic fiction, books and reading, friendship, readers, surprise birthday parties, fancy nancy, families [X], humorous fiction, helping behavior, detective and mystery stories, helpfulness, mystery and detective stories, detective and mystery fiction, adaptations, readers (publications), picture books, christmas fiction
Fancy Nancy And The Posh Puppy
Nancy wants to adopt a special puppy so that she is no longer the only fancy member of her family, but after a day of puppysitting a papillon, she realizes that being fancy is not always the most important thing.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 111
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 320
subjects: papillon dog, dogs, individuality [X], family, families [X], identity, family life, papillon dogs, picture books for children
My Dog Is As Smelly As Dirty Socks
A young girl draws a family portrait, then makes it more accurate by adding common objects to show aspects of each member's personality, such as her father's playfulness, her mother's sweetness, and her brother's strength.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 53
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: portraits, individuality [X], family, families [X], family life, identity, electronic books, electronic books
Unclaimed Treasures
Willa, who wants to feel extraordinary, thinks that she's in love with the father of the boy next door until she realizes that her "ordinary" true love is the boy himself.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: twins, brothers and sisters, self-acceptance, individuality [X], family, children's stories, american, families [X]
Frankie Stein
Mr. and Mrs. Frank N. Stein love their son very much, but despite their best efforts and his, it seems he will never look or act as scary as a Stein should.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 500
subjects: frankenstein (fictitious character), individuality [X], monsters, family, family life, identity, families [X]
Callie's Rules
Eleven-year-old Callie Jones tries to keep track of all the rules for fitting in that other middle school students seem to know, but when the town decides to replace Halloween with an Autumn Festival, Callie leads her large family in an unusual protest.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
Girl Overboard
Everybody thinks Syrah is the golden girl. After all, her father is Ethan Cheng, billionaire, and she has everything a kid could possibly desire;except her half siblings hate her and her boyfriend is only with her for her father's money.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 960
subjects: individuality [X], families [X], interpersonal relations, chinese americans, snowboarding, seattle (wash.), family
Nora And The Texas Terror
When Nora's uncle loses his job and house in Texas, he and his family come to stay with Nora's family in Portland, Oregon, and Nora must try very hard to adjust to her cousin Ellie, who is loud, stubborn, and a tease.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 450
Calli Be Gold
Eleven-year-old Calli, the third child in a family of busy high-achievers, likes to take her time and observe rather than rush around, and when she meets an awkward, insecure second-grader named Noah and is paired with him in the Peer Helper Program, she finds satisfaction and strength in working with him.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
The Visconti House
Laura Horton has always been an outsider, more interested in writing, drawing, or spending time with her free-spirited family than in her fellow teens, but she is drawn to Leon, a new student, as together they explore the mysteries of her eccentric old house.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
The Anybodies
After learning that she is not the biological daughter of boring Mr.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
First Daughter
During her father's presidential campaign, sixteen-year-old Sameera Righton, who was adopted from Pakistan at the age of three, struggles with campaign staffers who want to give her a more "all-American" image and create a fake weblog in her name.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: identity (psychology), pakistani americans, politics, practical, blogs, adoption, families [X], identity, individuality [X]
Dead Girl Walking
When Amber, a smart, middle-class, high school student, is hit by a truck, she meets her deceased grandmother in a dreamlike place, then takes a wrong turn and awakens in the body of a wealthy, beautiful, popular classmate with serious problems.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: identity (psychology), death, future life, family, high schools, identity, family problems, schools, school stories, identity (philosophical concept), family life, dysfunctional families, families [X], teenage girls, individuality [X]
The Romeo And Juliet Code
During World War II, eleven-year-old Felicity is sent from London to Bottlebay, Maine, to live with her grandmother, aunt, uncle, and a reclusive boy who helps her decode mysterious letters that contain the truth about her missing parents.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 49
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: identity (psychology), world war, 1939-1945, families [X], ciphers, maine, individuality [X], family life, code and cipher stories
Divergent
Beatrice Pryor lives in a dystopian Chicago, which is divided into five factions devoted to different virtues.
FIC
year: 2120
copies: 363
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: identity, families [X], courage, social classes, identity (psychology), science fiction, family, dystopias, chicago (ill.), electronic books, family life, identity (philosophical concept), science fiction, individuality [X], dystopian fiction