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Author
Series
Ramona Quimby volume 5
Language
English
Description
Ramona at 7 1/2 sometimes feels discriminated against by being the youngest in the family.
3) Almost home
Author
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
4) Me & Mama
Author
Language
English
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Description
Mama's love is brighter than the sun, even on the rainiest of days. This celebration of a mother-daughter relationship is perfect for sharing with little ones! On a rainy day when the house smells like cinnamon and Papa and Luca are still asleep, when the clouds are wearing shadows and the wind paints the window with beads of water, I want to be everywhere Mama is. With lyrical prose and a tender touch, the Caldecott and Coretta Scott King Honor Book...
Author
Series
Rise of the dragons volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Once our world was full of dragons who lived in harmony with humans. Dragons counseled kings and queens. They fought in human battles. And they gave humans the most precious gift of all: magic. But after a group of rogue dragons, the Raptors, tried to take over Earth, all dragons were banished to another realm. Most humans forgot about the dragons, claiming they never existed. Eleven-year-old Sirin knows the truth -- she grew up with stories passed...
9) Mouseboat
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young girl feels lost after the death of her mother, but when she and her father visit their lake house, she takes out the small boat she and her mom built together and somehow, in the wind and rain, reconnects with her mother's love.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Little Brownmouse and her mother laugh and play throughout the day, and if something is funny once, Little Brownmouse thinks the second time around is even better.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"In the hills above Port-au-Prince, a young girl named Fallon wants more than anything to carry a large woven basket to the market, just like her Manman. As she watches her mother wrap her hair in a mouchwa, Fallon tries to twist her own braids into a scarf and balance the empty panye atop her head, but realizes it's much harder than she thought"--
15) Stealing Parker
Author
Series
Hundred Oaks volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Parker Shelton pretty much has the perfect life. She's on her way to becoming valedictorian at Hundred Oaks High, she's made the all-star softball team, and she has plenty of friends. Then her mother's scandal rocks their small town and suddenly no one will talk to her. Now Parker wants a new life.
Author
Language
English
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"Alexis, a 12-year-old native Hawaiian, is terrified of the ocean and the creatures that live there because of an encounter she had early in her life with a moray eel. Her mother, a civilian contractor for the Navy, likes to give Alexis elaborate puzzles to solve when she's away on assignments. One puzzle gets her working for her grumpy neighbor, who everyone calls Uncle Tanaka, helping him gather marine samples. She has to use all her problem-solving...
17) Just like mama
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl enumerates all the things that her mother does in inimitable fashion, from scooping her up in a hug in the morning to tucking her in at night.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"There were just a few signs that Imogene was different. First, there were the antlers growing from her head -- a spectacle that her mother could not bear. Then came the peacock's tail, the long neck, and ... oh dear, what will Mother say to that? Thirty-five years after David Small brought the inimitable Imogene to life, she's back -- with a new set of features that kids everywhere will see for what they really are : the things that make you utterly,...
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