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#CollectTheRainbow at Rainbow High!The Official Rainbow High Yearbook is your very own collection of photo shoots and fashion spreads from Rainbow High&#8217;s best year ever, featuring your favorite Rainbow High characters like Ruby Anderson, Amaya Raine, Poppy Rowan, Sunny Madison, Jade Hunter, Skyler Bradshaw, Violet Willow, and many more!With this 96-page yearbook, designed by the Rainbow High yearbook team, Rainbow High fans can relive the highs and lows of a colorful school year&#8212;from new students to fashion 101s. Special features include 12 in-depth student profiles, each with their own color specific design, hilarious campus candids, fun polls, and more.Rainbow High is a modern fashion doll line that sparks imagination and inspires creativity. With grit, love, action, and moxie, the students of Rainbow High combine their unique creative skills and work together to achieve their unlimited dreams today. Rainbow High encourages individuality, self expression, and passion for creativity. Rainbow High dolls are currently the #1 fashion doll, #1 total doll, and #5 overall toy! With over a billion minutes watched on Netflix and 160+ million views on YouTube, Rainbow High is everywhere.

Rainbow High: The Official Rainbow High Yearbook

A stand-alone companion to two-time Newbery Honor author Kevin Henkes&#8217;s award-winning, bestselling, and acclaimed The Year of Billy Miller and Billy Miller Makes a Wish. This short, humorous, and accessible novel for newly independent readers focuses on Billy&#8217;s younger sister, Sal, and what unfolds during an eventful holiday season at the Miller house.Oh, Sal is illustrated in black-and-white throughout by the author, and is perfect for fans of Ramona, Ivy + Bean, and Dory Fantasmagory. The Miller family is celebrating its first holiday with the new baby. Billy is excited that Uncle Jake is visiting, but nothing about this holiday season is making Billy&#8217;s little sister Sal happy. The baby is a noisy nuisance and hogging all of Mama&#8217;s attention. Plus, the baby doesn&#8217;t even have a name yet. To make matters worse, Sal lost the very best gift that Santa gave her!Will Sal find her present? Will the Millers find a name for the baby? Will Billy always be an annoying big brother? The holiday season (and life with the Millers) is full of surprises&#8212;and warmth, kindness, family, celebration, and love&#8212;in the hands of award-winning author Kevin Henkes. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white art by the author, Oh, Sal is an excellent choice for early elementary grades, as well as a terrific family and classroom read-aloud for any time of the year.A stand-alone companion to The Year of Billy Miller (a Newbery Honor Book) and Billy Miller Makes a Wish.&#160;

Oh, Sal

In this thrilling sequel to the &#8220;spellbinding&#8221; (Booklist starred review) and &#8220;mesmerizing&#8221; (Publishers Weekly starred review) middle grade fantasy adventure Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls, Cece and her sister Juana must journey into the stronghold of Devil&#8217;s Alley to challenge the criatura king El Cucuy.&#160;Cece Rios thought saving her sister would be the end of her adventures in the world of criaturas. But part of Juana&#8217;s soul is still trapped in Devil&#8217;s Alley. As Cece tries to find a way to get it back using her new curandera abilities, Juana takes her fate in her own hands and sets off alone, intent on restoring her soul and getting revenge on El Sombrer&#243;n.But then they discover that El Cucuy, king of the criaturas, is hunting for Cece, craving her powers for his own dark purposes. Can the Rios sisters&#8212;along with Coyote, Little Lion, and their other criatura allies&#8212;uncover his secrets and reclaim Juana&#8217;s soul? Or will the sinister forces of Devil&#8217;s Alley overcome them all?This award-winning series is perfect for fans of Aru Shah and the End of Time and Amari and the Night Brothers.

Cece Rios and the King of Fears

Debut author Misty Wilson chronicles her seventh-grade experience as the only girl on her town&#8217;s football team in this empowering graphic memoir about teamwork, friendship, crushes, and touchdowns.Misty never shies away from a challenge, on or off the field. So when the boys tell her she can&#8217;t play football, there&#8217;s only one thing to do: join their team and show them what she&#8217;s got.But the training is rougher than she thought&#8212;and so are the other guys, who aren&#8217;t thrilled about having a girl on their team.Middle school isn&#8217;t so easy, either. Misty wants to fit in with the popular kids, but they think a girl playing football is &#8220;weird.&#8221; Even her best friend doesn&#8217;t get it.Can Misty find a way to score points with her teammates, make new friends, and show everyone&#8212;including herself&#8212;what it means to play like a girl?&#8220;I am a huge fan of Misty and her courageous journey of staying true to herself. Readers will love her!&#8221; &#8212;Terri Libenson, New York Times bestselling author of the Emmie &#38; Friends series&#8220;This is the book I wish I&#8217;d had as a kid. Misty&#8217;s passion for football and her fight to play in a male-dominated sport while balancing friendship and crushes makes for a winning read!&#8221; &#8212;Dr. Jen Welter, first female NFL coach, first female running back in men&#8217;s pro football, and founder of Grrridiron Girls

Play Like a Girl

An inspiring debut middle grade novel-in-verse about Rain, who must overcome sadness after her all-star brother is badly beaten up at a frat party. Genesis Begins Again meets Brown Girl Dreaming in this powerful story of perseverance, family, and hope.&#8220;A captivating novel about honoring your feelings and learning to love yourself.&#8221; &#8212;Janae Marks, author of From the Desk of Zoe Washington&#8220;A powerful novel about mental health, self-love, and family. Filled with tenderness and heart.&#8221; &#8212;Mariama J. Lockington, author of For Black Girls Like Me and In the Key of Us&#160;&#160;Rain is keeping a big secret from everyone around her: She's sad. All the time. Rain struggles with her image and feels inferior to her best friend, Nara. Not even her all-star student-athlete big brother (and personal superhero), Xander, can help Rain with her dark thoughts and low self-esteem.And when Xander becomes the victim of violence at a predominantly white university, Rain&#8217;s life and mind take a turn for the worse. But when her favorite teacher, Miss Walia, invites her to an after-school circle group, Rain finds the courage to help herself and her family heal.Like the rain, she is both gentle and a force, finding strength to rise again.&#8220;You can't help but fall in love with this book. Heartbreaking, emotional, and a ride well worth taking.&#8221; &#8212;Marie Arnold, author of The Year I Flew Away and I Rise&#8220;Everyone who reads this will be inspired by Rain's dedication to finding healing.&#8221;&#160;&#8212;Elisabet Velasquez, author of When We Make It

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