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Best friends and neighbors Isaac and Marco are opposite in looks--Isaac is tall and Marco is short--and in abilities--Isaac excels at basketball, while Marco excels at schoolwork. However, that doesn't stop the sixth graders from having each other's back and helping each other get better. Isaac wants to finally take his schoolwork seriously while Marco wants to make the basketball team to make his dad proud of him. As they each work through difficulties...
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Twelve-year-old June Delancey is determined to beat her anxiety and become the lion she knows she is, instead of the mouse everyone sees, and with the help of Homer Juarez, the poetry-reciting soccer star, she starts a secret library garden and hatches a plan to make her dreams come true.
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"Eleven-year-old Ava Andrews has a Technicolor interior with a gray shell. On the inside, she bubbles with ideas and plans. On the outside, everyone except her best friend, Zelia, thinks she doesn't talk or, worse, is stuck-up. What nobody knows is that Ava has invisible disabilities: anxiety and a heart condition. Ava hopes middle school will be a fresh start, but when Zelia moves across the country and Ava's Nana Linda pushes her to speak up about...
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When he is assigned the part of King Midas in the third grade play, Jake Williams is worried because he really does not like performing in front of others--but the Worry Warriors, the club he and his three best friends formed, are there to help him overcome his stage fright.
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Nellie Davis is very worried about the first day of fourth grade after she finds out that she is not in the same class as her three best friends, Adam, Jake, and Estella, all members of their club, The Worry Warriors--but when she accidentally volunteers to take care of the class rat (she is terrified of rats) things get even more worrisome.