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1) Just Grace
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
NC 830L
Language
English
Description
Misnamed by her teacher, seven-year-old Just Grace prides herself on being empathetic, but when she tries to help a neighbor feel better, her good intentions backfire.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The kids learn empathy and what it is like to be a dog when T.D. volunteers to act like a canine for the day and Carolina wakes up to find herself changed into a dog.
4) Mockingbird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
5) The wake up
Author
Language
English
Description
"While on a hunting trip, forty-year-old cattle rancher Aiden Delacorte rediscovers his ability to feel the pain of others, a trait he's buried since childhood. When he falls in love with a single mom who has a troubled son, he will help him sift through his past to find empathy and compassion"--
During a hunting trip, cattle rancher Aiden Delacorte is suddenly attuned to the animals around him, feeling their pain and fear as if it were his own....
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Five teenagers sit around a bonfire in the middle of the New Mexico desert and when they participate in a ritual to trade totems as a symbol of shedding and adopting one another's sorrows, they think it is only an exercise, but in the morning they wake to find their burdens gone and replaced with someone else's.
Author
Series
Aladdin angelwings volume 7
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Little Angel of Understanding tries to earn his wings by helping Maggie see how hard it is for her grandmother to lose her independence after she has a stroke.
Author
Publisher
Beaming Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 990L
Language
English
Description
"Meet a boy with a heart so big, his feelings glow from his cheeks, spill out of his eyes, and jump up and down on his chest. What good is this giant heart?"--
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their...
Author
Series
(Kallie),Bibbidi bobbidi academy volume 3
Publisher
Disney, Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ophelia is excited to go on the fairy field trip to Atlantica so she can visit the Wishing Whirlpool. There is only one problem: Ophelia can't help being helpful! Every time she is about to go off on her own, she gets distracted by someone who needs her assistance. But when she runs into her sea witch cousin, Octavia, Ophelia might learn what true help means"--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When he and his grandfather go to town, Alfie finds humor in seeing unpleasant things happen to other people, but he feels differently when an elephant lands on him at the circus.
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman and Company
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Nicholas's injured ankle keeps him from playing soccer, he finds he can better understand the behavior of the neighbor who makes him angry, and learns that he can change his own behavior too.
Author
Series
Publisher
Rise x Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
AD 720L
Language
English
Description
"Through a handful of specific yet universal school scenarios, young readers will understand what it means to be a part of a school community and celebrate how to share with and care for one another"--
16) Can I keep it?
Author
Publisher
Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As a boy searches his backyard for the perfect pet, his mother asks him to consider where a squirrel, frog, or bird would like to live.
Author
Series
Harley Merlin volume 1
Publisher
Nightlight Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Harley Merlin can sense people's emotions, among other things. It's how she snagged her first job pinpointing cheaters at a casino. But she has no clue where she got these freakish powers because she spent her childhood jumping from home to home in the foster system, and her father left her with nothing more than a crypic note. Then she crosses paths with a terrifyingly real monster. Which is when a mysterious and annoyingly arrogant young warlick...
18) Hellboy
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In the 1940s, the Third Reich has joined forces with the evil Grigori Rasputin, who has used his occult powers to summon up a demon from the depths of Hell. However, the demonic creature is captured by American forces, and put in the care of Professor Broom. Under Broom's care, Hellboy develops the desire to do good. Sixty years later he takes action as part of an elite secret defense team alongside Liz Sherman, and Abe Sapian, an aquatic humanoid...
20) The roar
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful book about managing anger from the bestselling creators of While We Can't Hug.
Tortoise is upset. Too upset even for hugs. Everyone offers suggestions, but nothing helps. Can Hedgehog find a way to help?
"Tortoise is not having a good day and now he's stuck in a hole and is far too cross for hugs. Hedgehog sits and waits and then makes Tortoise laugh--taking the time to let the moment pass, and acknowledge how Tortoise feels"--