Self Esteem & Self Reliance

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My Body and Me: My First Body Positivity Book

From the Series My First Board Books

Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books I love my body. It's special to me. It's exactly the way it's meant to be. An empowering celebration of bodies, promoting body positivity such as Read More →

  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2024
2 titles

My First Board Books — Board Book Set

From the Series My First Board Books

My First Board Books introduce topics that empower and nurture the development of the whole child, such as body positivity and self-regulation. These action-packed books make for a prominent… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2024
  • Board Book
  • List Price: $23.98
  • Temporarily out of stock
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Fall 2024

My Hair Is My Friend

After Cali realizes that her natural hair doesn't listen to a thing she says, she decides to take her older sister's approach to treat her hair like a friend with kindness, love, and care.… Read More →

  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2024

My Name Is Hamburger

Say your name with pride! Trudie Hamburger is the only Jewish kid living in the small southern town of Colburn in 1962. Nobody else at her school has a father who speaks with a German accent… Read More →

  • Lexile: 870
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2022

My Pet

From the Series I Care (Pull Ahead Readers People Smarts — Fiction)

Different pets have different needs. But every pet deserves love. Discover how children in one neighborhood care for their pets in this charming tale. Pairs with the nonfiction title, I Care… Read More →

  • Lexile: -110
  • Dewey: 428.6/2
  • Copyright: 2023
Spring 2025

My Wandering Dreaming Mind

Why does my mind fly to the sky, and think of fairies and mermaids and frogs? I wish it would just stay put and help me do my homework and listen and remember. Sadie feels like her thoughts… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2020
Cover: My Whirling Twirling Motor
Starred Review & Award Count 1
Spring 2025

My Whirling Twirling Motor

Charlie feels like he has a whirling, twirling motor running inside him . . . all the time! He doesn't WANT to have so much energy, but sometimes he just can't settle down. When his mom… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2019
Spring 2025

My Zoo: A Book of Feelings

We have a whole zoo of feelings inside of us—an angry lion, a happy puppy, a calm sloth. Some days we feel like just one animal, and some days we feel like them all. My Zoo helps kids to… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2022

Name Tags and Other Sixth-Grade Disasters

Fun, funny, and fully heartfelt. Everyone needs true-blue friends like Lizbeth's. SuperChicken for life. —Kristin L. Gray, author of The Amelia Six and Vilonia Beebe Takes Charge One of… Read More →

  • Lexile: 660
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2020
Cover: Nop
Starred Review & Award Count 1
Spring 2025

Nop

Nop is a scruffy kind of bear. He sits on a dusty armchair in Oddmint's Dumporeum surrounded by the beaders, knitters, patchers, and stitchers who are much too busy to talk to him. So he… Read More →

  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2025

Not Yet a Yeti

A feel-good story about self-identity, growing up and family love. "It’s not fair," George said to his mom when she came back from chasing some hikers. "I'm still not yet a yeti." Everyone Read More →

  • Lexile: 490
  • ATOS: 2.4
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2019

Oh, No, Hippo!

From the Series Early Bird Readers — Blue (Early Bird Stories ™)

Hippo wants to join the other animals in activities, but he is very clumsy. With sweet, full-color illustrations and leveled text, this story is perfect for new readers. Read More →

  • Lexile: 280
  • ATOS: 1.4
  • Dewey: 428.6/2
  • Copyright: 2022

One Brave Summer

From the Series Quartz Creek Ranch

Paley Dixon is not excited about six weeks on a horse ranch without access to the virtual world of Dragonfyre. In-game, she's the Blue Elf, strong and powerful. In the real world, she's… Read More →

  • Lexile: 660
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2017
Spring 2025

Ouch Moments: When Words Are Used in Hurtful Ways

Microaggressions or "ouch moments," as they are referred to in the story, are brief exchanges where an indignity, insult, or slight is expressed—whether intentionally or not—from one person… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2015
Cover: Pablo
Starred Review & Award Count 1

Pablo

Shhh! Pablo is asleep. This is his last night inside the shell. Tomorrow he'll come out. But he's a little shy so will start with just very small hole. Tap tap! With the little chick Pablo,… Read More →

  • Lexile: 440
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2021

Paco Tries

From the Series Helpful Habits (Pull Ahead Readers People Smarts — Fiction)

Watch Paco as he works toward the goal of getting his wheels under him to learn how to ride a bicycle. Pairs with the nonfiction title Setting Goals. Read More →

  • Lexile: 40
  • Dewey: 428.6/2
  • Copyright: 2022
11 titles

Picture Book Favorites — Audisee®—On Level Set

Finding meaningful connections between picture books and struggling readers is the key to unlocking a new world full of an ever-increasing vocabulary and a deeper understanding of the content Read More →

  • Copyright: 2019
  • Audisee®—On Level
  • List Price: $513.15
  • Your Price: $384.86
  • 11 titles

¡Piensa en grande! (Think Big!)

Vinney is short. He gets picked on, overlooked in the lunch line, and passed by for the good parts in the school play. He can’t reach the chapter books in the library and never gets passed… Read More →

  • ATOS: 3.0
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2005

Please Don't Make Me Fly!: A Growing-Up Story of Self-Confidence

From the Series Growing Up

Whether it's learning how to take the first steps, or how to ride a bike, children must believe in themselves and trust the adults who care for them before jumping into something new. Once… Read More →

  • Lexile: 490
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2017
Spring 2025

Pooka and Bunni

Oh no! Pooka knocked down her big sister Bunni's pillow castle! Pooka needs to fix it before Bunni returns. Even though she's small, Pooka uses her big imagination, creativity, and… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2020

Pop Flies, Robo-Pets, and Other Disasters

Thirteen-year-old Satoshi Matsumoto spent the last three years living in Atlanta where he was the star of his middle-school baseball team—a slugger with pro potential, according to his coach. Read More →

  • Lexile: 690
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2020

Pull Ahead Readers Classroom Library

Help young readers build literacy skills with paired nonfiction and fiction series! Simple text patterns support emergent readers as they build their recognition of high-frequency sight words Read More →

Spring 2025

Quiet as Mud

A sweet poem about being an introvert in a big loud world. Inspired by a quote from the late, great children's book author Margaret Wise Brown, this poem honors and celebrates the beauty of… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2024
Cover: Rainbow Hands
Starred Review & Award Count 1

Rainbow Hands

From the Series Lantana Global Picture Books

When a young boy paints his nails with his mom’s nail polish, he discovers the most important thing of all: the magic of being his true self. As the long late summer day stretches ahead of… Read More →

  • Lexile: 510
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2022