Kelly Williams Brown

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Missouri

How to Become a Grown-Up in 535 Easy(ish) Steps

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING GUIDE, WITH UPDATED MATERIAL AND A NEW FOREWORD If you graduated from college but still feel like a student . . . if you wear a business suit to job interviews but pajamas to the grocery store . . . if you have your own apartment but no idea how to cook or clean . . . it's OK. But it doesn't have to be this way. Just because you don't feel like an adult doesn't mean you can't act like one. And it all begins with this funny, wise, and useful book. Based on Kelly Williams Brown's popular blog, ADULTING, makes the scary, confusing "real world" approachable, manageable--and even conquerable. This guide will help you to navigate the stormy Sea of Adulthood so that you may find safe harbor in Not Running Out of Toilet Paper Bay, and along the way you will learn: What to check for when renting a new apartment--Not just the nearby bars, but the faucets and stove, among other things. When a busy person can find time to learn more about the world (It involves the intersection of NPR and hair-straightening.) How to avoid hooking up with anyone in your office--Imagine your coworkers having plastic, featureless doll crotches. It helps. The secret to finding a mechanic you love--Or, more realistically, one that will not rob you blind. From breaking up with frenemies to fixing your toilet, this way fun comprehensive handbook is the answer for aspiring grown-ups of all ages.

Adulting

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Betsy Byars

Front cover has cracked plastic and some wear. Back cover has marker. Old library card inside.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

Lennie is addicted to television. Even reruns are more exciting than real life, and Lennie likes to pretend he's the one experiencing the drama. But Lennie's daydreams lead him into a real situation that could cost him his life'and suddenly he's in trouble more terrifying and dangerous than anything he's ever seen on TV.'Byars infuses the story with her special magic. Lennie is a likable, funny, moving, and always entertaining character.' ?Publishers Weekly

The TV Kid

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Houghton Mifflin Company Staff

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Florida

Now I'm Big

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Laura Harrington

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

"Outside the back window Alice can see the outlines of the garden, some of the furrows visible under the snow, stretching away in long thin rows. She can't imagine doing the garden without her dad. It's his thing; she's always thought of herself as his assistant at best. She can't imagine doing anything without her dad and she starts to feel like she can't breathe. And then she looks at him. Just looks at him as he watches the fire with muffin crumbs on his lap.
'I'll write to you.'
'I know, sweetheart.'
'Every day.'"
--From Alice Bliss

When Alice Bliss learns that her father, Matt, is being deployed to Iraq, she's heartbroken. Alice idolizes her father, loves working beside him in their garden, accompanying him on the occasional roofing job, playing baseball. When he ships out, Alice is faced with finding a way to fill the emptiness he has left behind.

Matt will miss seeing his daughter blossom from a tomboy into a full-blown teenager. Alice will learn to drive, join the track team, go to her first dance, and fall in love, all while trying to be strong for her mother, Angie, and take care of her precocious little sister, Ellie. But the smell of Matt is starting to fade from his blue shirt that Alice wears everyday, and the phone calls are never long enough.

Alice Bliss is a profoundly moving coming-of-age novel about love and its many variations--the support of a small town looking after its own; love between an absent father and his daughter; the complicated love between an adolescent girl and her mother; and an exploration of new love with the boy-next-door. These characters' struggles amidst uncertain times echo our own, lending the novel an immediacy and poignancy that is both relevant and real. At once universal and very personal, Alice Bliss is a transforming story about those who are left at home during wartime, and a teenage girl bravely facing the future.

Alice Bliss

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Anne Tyler

This book is a clean copy with a good spine and binding. The contents and Graphics are in good condition. There is minimal wear inside. There is slight wear on the hardback cover. Will ship within hours after your order is received. Thanks for stopping by and please stay safe. Be 45

Marrying quickly during World War II after falling in love at first sight, a mismatched couple discovers that their very different personalities and approaches to life are taking a toll on their lives, their relationship, and their family, in a compelling novel spanning three generations. 300,000 first printing.

The Amateur Marriage

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#hardcover #youngadult #British #growing-up

David Almond’s extraordinary novels have established him as an author of unique insight and skill. These stories encapsulate his endless sense of mystery and wonderment, as they weave a tangible tapestry of growing up in a large, loving family. Here are the kernels of his novels—joy and fear, darkness and light, the healing power of love and imagination in overcoming the wounds of ignorance and prejudice. These stories merge memory and dream, the real and the imagined, in a collection of exquisite tenderness.

Counting Stars

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Booki Vivat

Alaska

Everyday Disasters and Impending Doom

An instant New York Times bestseller, Booki Vivat's Frazzled is the first installment of a funny middle grade graphic novel series about a girl who is always in a tizzy.

"Hilarious." (NPR's All Things Considered)

"Honest, sweet, and laugh-out-loud funny. Fans of Smile and Diary of a Wimpy Kid will appreciate this debut." (Brightly.com)

Meet Abbie Wu. Abbie is in crisis--and not just because she's starting middle school or because she's stuck in a family that doesn't quite get her or because everyone seems to have a Thing except her. Abbie Wu is always in crisis.

From author and professional doodler Booki Vivat, Frazzled dives right into the mind of this hilariously neurotic middle school girl as she tries to figure out who she is and where she belongs. Akin to Smile by Raina Telgemeier, Frazzled is heavily illustrated, embarrassingly honest, and sure to appeal to anyone in the middle of figuring out how to survive the everyday disasters of growing up.

Frazzled

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Oregon

Writers on Growing up in America

In "Dream Me Home Safely," Alice Walker, Anna Quindlen, Lois Lowry, Nikki Giovanni and many more write on their own American childhoods with intensely intimate writing, through memories both diverse and powerful.

Dream Me Home Safely

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Maryland

With humor and insight, The Beautiful Chaos of Growing Up takes you into the turbulent world of young adulthood. Capturing the newfound freedoms of college life and the dizzying adventure of the years that immediately follow it, this poetry collection reflects on the ups, downs, and in-betweens of the journey towards independence. In poems that explore the thrills and anxieties of college friendships and graduation, internships and job interviews, first dates and first apartments, lies a warmhearted, powerful examination of what it means to grow up.

The Beautiful Chaos of Growing Up

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Laurel Snyder

Michigan

From acclaimed author Laurel Snyder comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and completely one-of-a-kind novel about nine children who live on a mysterious island. On the island, everything is perfect. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes; the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect those who live there; when the nine children go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts. And only one thing ever changes: on that day, each year, when a boat appears from the mist upon the ocean carrying one young child to join them—and taking the eldest one away, never to be seen again. Today’s Changing is no different. The boat arrives, taking away Jinny’s best friend, Deen, replacing him with a new little girl named Ess, and leaving Jinny as the new Elder. Jinny knows her responsibility now—to teach Ess everything she needs to know about the island, to keep things as they’ve always been. But will she be ready for the inevitable day when the boat will come back—and take her away forever from the only home she’s known?

Orphan Island

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Nevada

LaVaughn has made it through the projects, she's gottenover heartbreak, she's grown up, and now she might finally have her ticket to college. She believes that she's keeping alert to all possibilities. But discoveries she makes during her senior year in high school disturb everything in her small universe. And in an effort to bring together people who should love each other, she jeopardizes the one prize she has sought her whole life long.

When do you know whether you're doing the right thing? What happens when you can't find a way to make lemonade out of lemons?

This Full House

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Jen Calonita

Ohio

Fairy Tale Reform School #1

Gilly wouldn't call herself wicked, exactly...but when you have five siblings and live in a run-down boot, you have to get creative to make ends meet. Gilly's a pretty good thief-until she gets caught and sentenced to three months at Fairy Tale Reform School. There Gilly has to deal with teachers who are former villains like the Big Bad Wolf, the Evil Queen, and Cinderella's Wicked Stepmother.Harsh. But when she meets fellow students Jax and Kayla and they discover there's a battle brewing, Gilly has to wonder just how good these bad guys really are.

Flunked

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#paperback #ya #growingup #unlikelyfriends #glenhuser
Such a fun book!

Illinois

At fifteen, Tamara has survived the foster-care system through brains, will and attitude. Now there's high school to get through, along with her teacher's latest community project -- volunteering at the local seniors' home. Tamara doubts she can endure either the residents or the smells.

Then she's assigned to Jean Barclay, a cranky, wealthy and frail former schoolteacher. As the two size one another up, they realize each is the key to achieving their own very different goals. Miss Barclay wants to attend an opera in Seattle -- a trip doctors insist she's too weak to undertake. Tamara wants to enroll in modeling school in Vancouver -- an expense she can't begin to afford. They plan the road trip of a lifetime -- but can these two bossy, manipulative women keep from throttling each other before their goals are realized?

Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen

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Arizona

My Year in the Middle

1 Paperback 1 hardback. Young Adult see pictures.

The Teenage Girls Guide to Almost Anything & Ellie's Story 2 Book Bundle

Some creases from use. See all pics for blemishes. #paperback #fiction #kids #growingup #elementary #children #family #relationships #goals #juvenilefiction

Summer Jackson Grown Up 

#paperback #fiction #clique #growingup #teen 

The girls from Octavian Country Day School return for their sixth juicy story of back-stabbing, sucking up, and looking good while frequenting Westchester County's elite social circles. Original. 125,000 first printing.

Dial l for Loser

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Julie Buntin

A Novel

An electric debut novel about love, addiction, and loss; the story of two girls and the feral year that will cost one her life, and define the other’s for decades Everything about fifteen-year-old Cat’s new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter, until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat, inexperienced and desperate for connection, is quickly lured into Marlena’s orbit by little more than an arched eyebrow and a shake of white-blond hair. As the two girls turn the untamed landscape of their desolate small town into a kind of playground, Cat catalogues a litany of firsts—first drink, first cigarette, first kiss—while Marlena’s habits harden and calcify. Within the year, Marlena is dead, drowned in six inches of icy water in the woods nearby. Now, decades later, when a ghost from that pivotal year surfaces unexpectedly, Cat must try to forgive herself and move on, even as the memory of Marlena keeps her tangled in the past. Alive with an urgent, unshakable tenderness, Julie Buntin’s Marlena is an unforgettable look at the people who shape us beyond reason and the ways it might be possible to pull oneself back from the brink.

Marlena

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#nonfiction #paperback #bestseller #selfhelp #nytbestseller #kellywilliamsbrown 

Adulting & How Remarkable Women Lead (Bundle)

Sarah Dessen

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Halley's junior year of high school includes the death of her best friend Scarlett's boyfriend, the discovery that Scarlett is pregnant, and Halley's own first serious relationship.

Someone Like You

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Retired school library book. Written by a 10 year old! #paperback #childauthor #elementary #problemsolving #kids #childrens #fiction #relationships #growingup #youth

The Diary of Chickabiddy Baby

Michael Gurian

What Parents, Mentors and Educators Can Do to Shape Boys into Exceptional Men

Offers practical and effective guidelines for channeling boys' natural aggression, competitiveness, and sense of tribe and initiation into productive, disciplined behavior, and explores the relationships necessary to male development.

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Counting Stars

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Dream Me Home Safely

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The Beautiful Chaos of Growing Up

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Adulting & How Remarkable Women Lead (Bundle)

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Orphan Island

Sarah Dessen

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