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To get her best friend back, anxious and inventive eleven-year-old Maple performs a scientific experiment to uncover the secret to becoming fun.

When her struggles with anxiety worsen in the aftermath of a family death, Lottie is bequeathed a series of letters from her late aunt, a best-selling author, who leaves instructions to help Lottie overcome her fears and explore her own literary voice.

"A girl with social anxiety becomes the secret voice of the advice column in her middle school newspaper"--

When sixteen-year-old Lily Larkin's older sister, Alice, begins to struggle with her mental health, Lily attempts to keep everything together and perfect, despite her own growing anxiety.

"Murry Bear has so many worries! Luckily, his sister, Molly, knows just what to do. "Sharing worries always makes them feel smaller," she says. She also tells him about her worry box. "When I'm worried about something," she says, "I write it down, then put it inside." Then Molly offers to help make one for Murray, and he takes it on their journey to the waterfall -- but will it really help?"--Back cover.

"Rahul Kapoor is heading into seventh grade in a small town in Indiana. The start of middle school is making him feel increasingly anxious, so his favorite person in the whole world, his grandfather Bhai, gives him some well-meaning advice: Find one thing you're really good at. And become the BEST at it. Those four little words sear themselves into Rahul's brain. While he's not quite sure what that special thing is, he is convinced that once he finds...

Twelve-year-old Ava travels to Colorado to meet her dad's girlfriend Jenn and her daughter Mackenzie, but managing her anxiety, avoiding altitude sickness, and surviving the mountains might take all of her strength.

A knight in training imagines everything that could go wrong and what others would think before actually trying and finding out it is ok to make mistakes.

Tiny mouse Marco Polo is almost never chosen to leave the library, but when a boy about to attend his first sleepover needs a friend to smuggle along, the great mouse explorer's day has come.

After watching a documentary about how icebergs are melting, Harold, a lettuce who believes he's an actual iceberg, becomes overly anxious that he's melting, too, until his fellow food friends help him cool down in a different way.