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Maddox, Jake

Summary: Eighth-grader and starting point guard Roman is initially thrilled when big man Sebastian transfers schools and joins the team, but Sebastian's skills seem to have disappeared and the other kids are merciless in their criticism--then Roman's big sister gives him some advice: talk to Sebastian and find out what is going on, and add a pick-and-roll to the team playbook.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MAD

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MAD

Icard, Michelle

Summary: "Every child messes up, sometimes in ways that seem sure to wreck their futures: a bad report card, poor sportsmanship, underaged drinking. These are tough moments for parent and child alike, often complicated by the fear that the misstep is also an indictment of our parenting. But what each of these "fails" has in common for our kids is the precious silver lining of a chance for character...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.4 ICA
1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 155.4 ICA

Beaty, Andrea

Summary: "Rosie Revere is no stranger to flops and fails, kerfuffles and catastrophes. After all, she's an engineer, and engineering is all about perseverance! But sometimes, Rosie has a really important project to tackle -- one that feels much bigger than herself. When Rosie's beloved Aunt Rose and her pals the Raucous Riveters -- a gaggle of fun-loving gals who built airplanes during World War II --...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2018

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Maddox, Jake

Summary: Because she is now over six feet tall everybody expects Juniper to be good at basketball, especially her demanding coach (who also happens to be her father)--but she is not sure that she even likes basketball, and she definitely does not like the pressure that she feels when she misses a shot and her father benches her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MAD

Edmondson, Amy C.

Summary: "Award-winning Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson has influenced legion MBA grads as well as Big Think authors from Brené Brown to Adam Grant with her pioneering work on psychological safety. Now, Amy is bringing her work to the wider world, upending our entire cultural notion of failure with this guide to the science of failing well, which actualizes the potential of psychological...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023

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Beaty, Andrea.

Summary: A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2013

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E BEA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BEA

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BEA

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BEA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC BEA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Beaty 2013

Troupe, Thomas Kingsley

Summary: "Everyone makes mistakes--even professional athletes. Karl Malone missed free throws in the 1997 NBA Finals agains the Chicago Bulls. Catcher Hank Gowdy of the New York Giants tripped on his own mask and dropped the ball in 1924. Read about game-ending errors, on the court meltdowns, and more in this epci book of fails."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796 TRO

Maddox, Jake.

Summary: Best friends Olivia and Jessica are good runners, but Olivia is uncomfortable with competition, so when her friend talks her into joining the track team and Olivia is assigned to a long distance race, she is suddenly overcome by a fear of failure.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2013

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MAD

Hernandez, Laurie

Summary: "Even Olympians have to start somewhere. And in this charming illustrated book, Laurie Hernandez tells the story of Zoe, a little girl who dreams of flying--and becoming a gymnast. When Zoe sees a gymnast on TV, she realizes that gymnastics is just like flying. But when she first goes to class and falls off the balance beam, she discovers that following her dreams is harder and scarier than she...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG HER

Maddox, Jake

Summary: When wide receiver Ethan drops a touchdown pass and his team loses the game, he starts to doubt his own abilities, but as the next game approaches he realizes that he has to do what his father and coaches are telling him to do--stop obsessing about failure and get back to playing confident football.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018

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Yamada, Kobi

Summary: "How will you know what's possible if you don't try? This is a story for anyone who has ever felt like a beginner, or had doubts, or worried they weren't good enough. It's a story for those who have experienced the pain of trying something new and not having it turn out as they had hoped. So, in many ways, it is a sotry for every one of us. Because at some point in our lives, we will all fail....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG YAM

Manushkin, Fran

Summary: Katie is enrolled in a gymnastics class, but when she has trouble doing some of the moves she gets discouraged and considers dropping out.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE MAN

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MAN

Jannot, Jeannine

Summary: Drawing on her over 25 years' experience as a school psychologist, educator and student coach, the author identifies the skill deficits and counterproductive behaviors of disintegrating students and provides a complete toolbox of techniques and strategiesto combat them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.15 JAN

Bellow, Saul.

Summary: A suffering and persecuted intellectual, Moses E. Herzog passively accepts the disasters of his private and public affairs in an effort to survive modern civilization.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEL

Grant, Allison Sweet

Summary: A worried leaf who fears falling when autumn approaches resolves to find a different way down and races the wind to work with a friend to create a net, a kite, and a parachute in the hope of softening his landing.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRA

Stewart, Trenton Lee.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Methodist University Press 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

Molk, Laurel

Summary: Izzy's unsuccessful knitting projects turn out to be the perfect sweaters for all the dogs in the dog park.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MOL

Streep, Peg.

Summary: "In Mastering the Art of Quitting the authors show us how to let go when we need to and how to start over. A guide to increasing our emotional and mental flexibility, assessing our goals, and knowing when to hang in or bail out, it tackles our tendenciesto overanalyze, ruminate, and put a positive spin on situations we actually need to avoid. In a culture which perceives quitting as a last...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 STR

Howard, Paige

Summary: Little pigeon Petite is too scared to join her siblings for their first flight, but with her family's encouragement she finally tries--falls--and learns a lesson about fear, failure, and strength that will carry her through life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Howard

Beaty, Andrea

Summary: When Rosie is unable to invent a contraption to help one of Aunt Rose's Raucous Riveters friends, she calls on classmates Iggy Peck and Ada Twist to help.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2018

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Series Questioneers Beaty 2018

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BEA

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BEA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BEA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BEA

Hallinan, Joseph T.

Summary: Hallinan sets out to explore the captivating science of human error, and delves into psychology, neuroscience, and economics to discover why some of the same qualities that make us efficient also make us error-prone.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 HAL

Harford, Tim

Summary: Outlines a counterintuitive approach to changing the world by assessing its failures, drawing on myriad disciplines to argue that complex challenges must be met through adaptive trial-and-error practices that do not depend on expert opinions or ready-made solutions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.2 HAR

Zgheib, Yara

Summary: Yara Zgheibs poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young womans struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life. The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZGH

Harden, Greg

Summary: Greg Harden changes lives. This is why hundreds of world-class athletes, doctors, lawyers, teachers, business leaders, college students, and professionals from all walks of life have come to him for advice and direction--including 7-time Super Bowl Champion Tom Brady, 23-time Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps, Heisman Trophy winners Desmond Howard and Charles Woodson, CEOs of major...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 HAR

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