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Author
Publisher
Two Lions
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"More than anything, ten-year-old Weezie wants to please her momma. She babysits her spoiled half-sister, Ruth Ann, and little Jackson. She makes tea for Momma in Gramma Emmeline's beautiful teapot. She even tries to cook dinner. But nothing turns out quite right. And Momma is never pleased. Hard times and a daddy who ran off before she was born seem to have stolen all of Momma's love. If only Weezie could find her daddy, she's sure her life would...
2) The barn
Author
Language
English
Description
In an effort to fulfill their dying father's last request, nine-year-old Ben and his brother and sister construct a barn on their land in the Oregon Territory.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mina is excited to start her mentorship at A Batch Made in Heaven, a bakery famous throughout Washington State for their unique cookies, because she would like to become a baker herself, and she wants to enter the cookie competition in Seattle to win money to help her father open a restaurant to replace the one he left behind in Delhi; but she is soon frustrated because the owner's annoying son, Flynn, will not even let her near the kitchen--clearly...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Every night Lampie, the lighthouse keeper's daughter lights the lantern which warns the ships away from the rocks, but when the light goes out one night, a ship is wrecked and Lampie is sent to the Admiral's Black House in disgrace--there she finds and befriends the Admiral's son, who was born with a tail, and together they are pulled into an adventure of mermen and pirates, and secret identities long concealed but soon to be revealed.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Pippa and Jack's mother died of cancer their world seemed to fall apart: Pippa stopped talking altogether, and Jack started picking fights, and neither of them knows how to cope with the painful and awkward sympathy from their friends and classmates--but when they learn that their father's business is failing and he is growing desperate for money they realize that there is a possibility that they will lose another parent, this time to jail.
6) Air
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-and-a-half year old Emelyn Ethrige lives with her father in South Carolina, dreams of wheelchair motocross, and makes custom chair bags trying to earn enough money to buy a serious set of wheels. She has been in a wheelchair all her life and is just fine getting around without help, but it seems that since her mother was killed in an accident everyone (father, grandparents, teachers, and classmates) have started treating her differently: urging...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The only thing Rosalind Ling Geraghty loves more than watching NASA launches with her dad is building rockets with him. When he dies unexpectedly, all Ro has left of him is an unfinished model rocket they had been working on together. Benjamin Burns doesn't like science, but he can't get enough of Spacebound, a popular comic book series. When he finds a sketch that suggests that his dad created the comics, he's thrilled. Too bad his dad walked out...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After their father is arrested while providing aid in North Korea, Mia and her older brother, Simon need to flee the country after they find themselves in possession of photographs that can expose atrocities about the country's labor camps.
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