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2) Happiness
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A fox makes its way across London's Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide - Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech. In this delicate tale of love and loss, of cruelty and kindness, Aminatta Forna asks us to consider the interconnectedness of lives, our co-existence with one another and all living creatures, and the true nature of happiness....
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"If you were on a walk and found a ball, you could take it home and play with it. You are likely to find many other wonderful things as you explore the world—maybe even a new friend—and that makes you very lucky....[This book] encourages readers to be creative and to find purpose and connections in what surrounds them." --publisher's website.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When Merlin is weighed down by sorrows, Jack and Annie travel back to feudal Japan to learn one of the four secrets of happiness.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A gentle tale about reaching for the stars and being extraordinary . . . but remembering the ordinary too. Extraordinary! celebrates the best moments in life: the ones we share with friends and family. They may be simple, they may be ordinary, but they are moments we will cherish forever.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Ginny Masters manages a popular boutique hotel in Seattle, but the daily challenges and irritations of a fast-paced job and a demanding boss are starting to get to her. Jacqueline Potter manages her grandfather's fishing lodge in Idaho because it was the only job she could find after graduating with her hospitality degree. She's grateful for the work but longs for a more sophisticated and cosmopolitan life she's just not going to find in this backwoods...
12) Pass it on
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"When you see something terrific, smile a smile and pass it on! If you chance upon a chuckle, hee hee hee and pass it on. Should you spot a thing of wonder, jump for joy and pass it on! So begins Sophy Henn's ode to the excitement of sharing happiness with others. With a refrain that begs to be uttered before every turn of the page, children will eagerly read alongside their parents as they discover how wonderful--and fun!--it is to share the good...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Dani's been trying her best to stay happy ever since her best friend Ella moved away. But when some girls in Dani's class start being cruel to her, it starts a chain of rather unhappy events... It would all be okay if only Ella would move back.
Author
Series
Rainbow magic. Princess fairies volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Rachel and Kirsty are going to spend a week at the Golden Palace, but when Jack Frost steals the Princess Fairies' magic tiaras they must help Hope the Happiness Fairy find her tiara to cheer everyone up.
17) The umbrella
Author
Pub. Date
c2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A little girl and her dog find unexpected ways to spread the light in their dreary town where it always rains, showing that happiness is contagious.
Author
Formats
Description
Pearl's job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment. She's good at her job, her office manager tells her, successful. But how does one measure an emotion? Meanwhile, there's Pearl's teenage son, Rhett. A sensitive kid who has forged an unconventional path through adolescence, Rhett seems to find greater satisfaction in being unhappy. The very rejection of joy is his own kind...
20) The traveler
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
A charming fable that evokes a life lesson we would all do well to learn: living and loving are time well spent.
Once, there was a boy named Charlie. He had a pretty nice life ... but it wasn't perfect. So one day he packed up all his time-all his round, squishy years and square, mushy months, down to every itsy-bitsy second-in his suitcase and locked it up safe, said goodbye to his parents, and set off to find something better to spend his time...
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