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"Step right up to face your fears! Explore wicked, beastly, and simply scary phobias, from the fear of beards to a phobia of being naked. The circus of fears draws in hi-lo readers from 6th and 7th grade with compelling (and sometimes creepy) phobias while a 3rd to 4th grade reading level makes the information accessible. It's a roaring good time!"--
4) Crush hour
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37 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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Ella does not like being touched so she usually sits at the back of the bus, but today she is at the front of the school bus when something strange happens -- the actual seats at the back start pushing forward like a giant compacter, driving all the children together until all are crowded into the single remaining row, threatening to crush them all.
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339 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Twelve-year-olds Madeleine, Theo, and Lulu, and thirteen-year-old Garrison, are sent to a remote Massachusetts school to overcome their phobias, but tragedy strikes and the quartet must work together--with no adult assistance--to face their fears.
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xvii, 237 pages ; 22 cm
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"Since childhood, [Eva Holland] has been gripped by two debilitating phobias: fear of losing her mother, and fear of heights. The worst has already happened: Eva's mother died suddently and unexpectedly in 2014. But now -- after an arduous, embarrassing, and tearful finale to her ice-climbing expedtion -- Eva decides, enough. Fear may define her past, but she won't let it dictate her future. Thus begins Holland's quest to renegotiate her inhibiting...
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King of the bench volume 2
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211 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Steve is King of the Bench. No brag. That's just a fact. And this season, Steve and his friends are ready to sit on the sidelines of the Spiro T. Agnew Middle school football field. But then they stumble upon an old-school video game controller, and they become convinced it can control sports plays. With it, Steve might become King of Football too!
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xx, 267 pages ; 20 cm
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"Allen Shawn is afraid of heights, water, fields, parking lots, tunnels, and unknown roads. He avoids subways, elevators, and bridges. He is afraid of both closed and open spaces and of any form of isolation--yet this is a memoir of enormous bravery. He is the son of New Yorker editor William Shawn and brother to playwright/actor Wallace Shawn. His twin sister is autistic. His father led a double life that introduced strict taboos to his household....
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"Parenting a teen isn't easy, but parenting an anxious teen is especially challenging. Written by a psychologist and expert on adolescent anxiety, this essential book will show you what really works to overcome all types of teen anxiety and how to apply specific skills to support your teen. Most parents find it frustrating when common sense and logical methods such as reassurance don't seem to work to allay their teen's anxiety. They want to know:...
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The veteran host and head writer of "Live Wire" traces her lifelong battle with anxiety and the year she spent challenging herself to face her fears in remarkable ways, with hilarious results.
"The story of one chronically anxious woman's hilarious yearlong quest to change her own timid nature by seeking out the kinds of experiences she's spent her life avoiding. For most of her life (and even during her years as the host of a popular radio show),...
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307 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Thirteen-year-olds Madeleine, Theo, and Lulu, fourteen-year-old Garrison, and ten-year-old new "contestant" Hyacinth, must face their phobias and join forces to learn who is stealing wigs and pageant trophies from the School of Fear.
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"Meet Enid: a lesbian who's a serial dater and deaf in one ear. She works at The Space Agency as an information architect, and when she's not obsessing over true crime podcasts, she's managing her crippling phobia of bald people. While she tries not think about her teenage years, she can't seem to stop obsessively watching her childhood YouTube channel. But as Enid fumbles her way through her first serious relationship and navigates a new family life...
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"For anyone with intense fears and phobias, every day can feel like a roller-coaster ride. But if you are a teen, this is especially true. In Conquer Your Fears and Phobias for Teens, you will find practical skills for coping with the thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and behaviors that accompany phobias. You'll also discover useful strategies to handle the things and situations that cause you to feel fearful."--Publisher's description.
16) The final exam
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School of fear volume 3
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325 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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When a reporter plans an exposé that could shut down the School of Fear, Garrison, Lulu, Madeleine, Theo and Hyacinth seek help from Bishop Basmati, head of the nearby Contrary Conservatory, whose hyperactive, fearless, and extremely impulsive students soon overrun the School of Fearians.
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549 pages ; 25 cm
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En la sociedad occidental el panico y la ansiedad estan alcanzando cifras propias de una epidemia. Consciente del enorme sufrimiento que conllevan, Edmund J. Bourne, aborda el tema con empatia y profunda sensibilidad, desde un enfoque holistico. Ansiedad y fobias es un libro de trabajo que proporciona estrategias y ejercicios practicos que, paso a paso, permiten dominar las habilidades especificas que conviene desarrollar para superar estos trastornos....
18) American panda
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310 pages ; 22 cm
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A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths -- that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy. Can she find a way to be herself, before her web of lies unravels?
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282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Each member of Erik Sheepflattener's modern-day Viking-heritage family has a motto to live by. Erik is developing a motto he can truly believe in : avoid stuff. But when he and his older sister Brunhilde spend the summer with their rough-and-tumble cousins in Minnesota, axe-wielding Bru gets the idea to name and conquer all of Erik's fears."
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349 pages ; 22 cm
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"Esther Solar is determined to break a curse that has doomed her entire family to debilitating phobias, only to encounter a new fear she hadn't counted on: first love"--
Her father is agoraphobic, her twin brother can't be in the dark without a light on, and her mother is terrified of bad luck. According to the legend of a curse, Esther Solar's family is destined to die from their fears. Esther avoids pretty much everything: elevators, small spaces...
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