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41) Sis boom bah
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 308 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elizabeth's life is an organized mess. The organized part is all due to her own efforts. The mess is entirely due to her sister, Saoirse, whose personal problems leave Elizabeth scrambling to pick up the pieces. One of these pieces is Saoirse's six-year-old son, Luke. Luke is quiet and contemplative, until the arrival of a new friend, Ivan, turns him into an outgoing, lively kid. And Elizabeth's life is about to change in wonderful ways she has only...
Author
Publisher
Vertigo/DC Comics
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
xiii, 368 pages, [i.e. ccclxxxix] : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When an unspeakable tragedy befalls a family of traveling minstrels, they become stranded and left for dead. Here in the heart of The Black Forest, Peter Piper and his older brother Max encounter ominous forces that will change them both irreparably. Thus begins an epic tale of sibling rivalry, magic, music and revenge that spans medieval times to the present day when their deadly conflict surfaces in the placid calm of modern-day Fabletown."--dust...
49) Good as Goldie
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
22 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Goldie the big sister lists all the things that she can do that Nicholas her baby brother cannot.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First Clarion bilingual board book edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 15 cm
Language
English
Description
While rocking on his mother's lap, a young boy finds space for his favorite toys and blanket, but when Baby cries, he says there is no room for her.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
There were never such devoted sisters, or ones so hilariously and heartbreakingly conflicted about loyalty... Thoughtful, married-mom Georgie Peachy Archer and big-city-girl Beth, her older sister, grow up on a Canadian farm with their hairdressing, Vietnam draft-dodging dad, Lou, and share the pain of their mom's suicide. But that's where the similarities end---until the sisters swap lives for a weekend.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Relationships are awful. They'll kill you, right up to the point where they start saving your life. Paul and Alice's half-sister Eloise is getting married! In London! There will be fancy hotels, dinners at "it" restaurants and a reception at a country estate complete with tea lights and embroidered cloth napkins. They couldn't hate it more. The People We Hate at the Wedding is the story of a less than perfect family. Donna, the clan's mother, is...
Author
Series
Even the darkest stars volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kamzin dreamed of becoming one of the Emperor's royal explorers, the elite climbers tasked with mapping the wintry, mountainous Empire and spying on its enemies. Then River Shara, the greatest explorer ever known, arrives and demands to hire Kamzin -- not her older sister Lusha, as everyone had expected -- for his next expedition. River's mission to retrieve a rare talisman for the emperor; it means climbing Raksha, the tallest and deadliest mountain...
55) Wizardmatch
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
295 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lennie Mercado's grandfather, the current Prime Wizard of Pomporromp, is retiring and decides to host a tournament for Lennie and her cousins to compete to win his title, land, position, castle, and unlimited magical powers, but when Poppop introduces new rules to eliminate sibling rivalry, Lennie decides the games are unfair and makes plans to sabotage the event.
56) Fire with fire
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
it's kill or be killed where dragons are concerned. That's the only thing sisters Dani and Eden Rivera agree on. For Dani, dragon slaying takes a back seat to normal high school life, while Eden prioritizes training above everything else. Until Dani comes forges a rare and magical bond with Nox. Now she realizes that everything she thought she knew about dragons is wrong. With Dani lost to the dragons, Eden turns to the sorcerers to help save her...
58) Meaniehead
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Henry and Eve are going through a phase of fighting with each other all the time, and their battle quickly escalates from arguing over a toy to leaving a path of destruction across the United States and beyond.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Toby is eager to be considered "big" and do things on his own, but being a big boy is not quite as exciting as Toby thought it would be when he realizes it comes at the expense of mommy's attention, now devoted to his baby sister.
60) Undertow
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following the death of his wife, John Munn moves to Georgia with his two sons Chris and Tim in hopes of making a new start for his family. Once there, rebellious Chris finds a kindred spirit in his Uncle Deel, who recently left prison and still holds a grudge against his brother for marrying the woman he loved. Resentments soon boil over with tragic consequences sending Uncle Deel in hot pursuit of his fleeing nephews.
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