Love, Stargirl

Dear Sweet Pea

I Choose to Be a Helper: A Colorful, Picture Book About Being Thoughtful and Helpful

Marcelo in the Real World

One Day

The Lottie Project

Here in the Real World

The Willoughbys

Love, Life, and the List

Seventeen-year-old Abby Turner’s summer isn’t going the way she’d planned. She has a not-so-secret but definitely unrequited crush on her best friend, Cooper. She hasn’t been able to manage her mother’s growing issues with anxiety. And now she’s been rejected from an art show because her work “has no heart.” So when she gets another opportunity to show her paintings, Abby isn’t going to take any chances.

Which is where the list comes in.

Abby gives herself one month to do ten things, ranging from face a fear (#3) to learn a stranger’s story (#5) to fall in love (#8). She knows that if she can complete the list, she’ll become the kind of artist she’s always dreamed of being.

But as the deadline approaches, Abby realizes that getting through the list isn’t as straightforward as it seems . . . and that maybe—just maybe—she can’t change her art if she isn’t first willing to change herself.

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Love, Stargirl

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Dear Sweet Pea

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I Choose to Be a Helper: A Colorful, Picture Book About Being Thoughtful and Helpful

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Marcelo in the Real World

Francisco X. Stork, 2008

One Day

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Here in the Real World

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The Willoughbys

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