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Teach kids the joy of adventure and exploration. Any conversation about adventure inevitably means having a conversation about the difference between healthy concern and overblown worry. What is adventure? What causes fear? That's what this book explores--how living a life of adventure means living a life facing your fears.
5) Lone wolf
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Series
Wolves of the Beyond volume 1
Lexile Measure
890L
Summary
Abandoned by his pack, a baby wolf with a mysterious mark on his deformed paw survives and embarks on a journey that will change the world of the wolves of the Beyond.
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Warriors volume 1
Lexile Measure
790L
Summary
For generations, four clans of wild cats have shared the forest. When their warrior code is threatened by mysterious deaths, a house cat named Rusty may turn out to be the bravest warrior of all.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Summary
"It's about Riley the bear cub, who has mixed up feelings about the past. He used to try to be brave by learning to be tough, to save food when he could find it, to blend into the background so nobody could see him - now he's learning new ways to be brave in new, safer ways that are good for him"--
8) Coraline
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Lexile Measure
740L
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Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
10) Call it courage
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Lexile Measure
830L
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Relates how Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his terrible fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his people.
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Series
Warriors the prophecies begin volume 3
Lexile Measure
900L
Summary
The warrior cat Fireheart's determination to uncover the truth about another warrior's death leads him deep into danger, and reveals secrets that test the strength of clan loyalties.
12) Lines of courage
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Series
Lexile Measure
740L
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"Jennifer A. Nielsen, author of A Night Divided and Rescue, artfully weaves together the stories of five kids living through World War I who each hold the key to each other’s futures... if they are lucky -- and brave -- enough to find each other. World War I stretches its cruel fingers across Europe, where five kids feel war's scarcity and challenges in different ways. Felix, from Austria-Hungary, wants the courage to fight against Jewish deportations...
13) Wringer
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Lexile Measure
690L
Summary
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Summary
"Kaia is the brave type. Like hottest-hot-pepper brave. But there is one thing that scares her: BEES! And right now, thousands of bees live on her roof because Kaia's dad is a beekeeper. But only he goes on the roof, not Kaia--unless she can find a way to be the brave girl she always says she is."--
15) Secondhand dogs
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When a new dog named Decker arrives in Miss Lottie's home and convinces Moon Pie to embark on an impossible journey, Gus, the insecure pack leader, must gather his courage to bring Moon Pie home.
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Maybe Marisol volume 1
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"Marisol, who has a big imagination and likes to name inanimate objects, has a tree in her backyard named Peppina...but she's way too scared to climb it. Will Marisol find the courage to climb Peppina? Maybe"--
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Lexile Measure
670L
Summary
"With a new sister on the way, Roosevelt Banks has to give up his bedroom and move into the attic, which must be haunted because of all the squeaks and groans coming from the spooky place at the top of the stairs. After his plan to move into a fort in the woods fails, and a ghost-busting exercise goes terribly wrong, Roosevelt--with the help of Tommy, Josh, and Eddie Spaghetti--has to find the courage to defeat the biggest, spookiest ghouls ever and...
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"In 1857 India, 12-year-old Meera escapes a life she has no say in--and certain death on her husband's funeral pyre--only to end up a servant to a British general in the East India Company. When a rebellion against British colonizers spreads, she must choose between relative safety in a British household or standing up for herself and her people"--