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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"In the wake of Hilary Mantel's brilliant conclusion to her award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood. Sharp and funny, these drawn-from-life stories begin in the 1950s in an insular northern village "scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues." For the child narrator, the only way to survive is to get up, get on, get out. In "King Billy Is a Gentleman,"...
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Series
Children of exile volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old girl raised in a foster village is returned to her biological parents, and discovers home is not what she expected it to be.
6) No, silly!
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As their mothers and fathers listen, preschoolers describe favorite things to do.
8) Dear child
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Language
English
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"A windowless shack in the woods. A dash to safety. But when a woman finally escapes her captor, the end of the story is only the beginning of her nightmare. She says her name is Lena. Lena, who disappeared without a trace 14 years prior. She fits the profile. She has the distinctive scar. But her family swears that she isn't their Lena. The little girl who escaped the woods with her knows things she isn't sharing, and Lena's devastated father is...
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English
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"During a snowy Cleveland February, newlyweds Muneer and Saeedah are starting their lives in America and expecting their first child. But Muneer harbors a secret: the word divorce has begun whispering itself in his ear. Soon, their marriage will end, and Muneer will return to Saudi Arabia, while Saeedah remains in Cleveland with their daughter, Hanadi. The more time she shares with her daughter, the more Saeedah wants to keep her close, and before...
11) Baby love
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Language
English
Description
Illustrations and rhyming text reveal the special love between a parent and baby, from button nose to tiny toes.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Plucky, purple-haired Isabella is back for another adventure. What starts as a discussion of all of the fun things Isabella could do with her parents turns into a wondrous exploration through the world's most famous paintings"--
14) Haunted houses
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Series
Language
English
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Grace, Emily, and Jane collide with friends, family, and culture under dark and comic circumstances, presented in uncanny, disturbing and sometimes shocking terms.
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Language
English
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"A brilliant and dark tour de force, Jewish Son presents the delicate archeology of the stubbornness of a boy who demands his parents' attention. It is a brutal confession of the lies necessary to win a space of approval in a troubled family, a treatise on the excesses of love and the paradoxical lack of affection that is never enough, an accomplished narration of childhood from the point of view of the adult gaze, and a rewriting of Kafka's Letter...
16) Starry night
Author
Series
Christy Miller series volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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An invitation from her ex-boyfriend Rick to attend the Bible study group in his apartment confuses sixteen-year-old Christy and reminds her of the severe restrictions placed on her activities by her parents.
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Language
English
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In her luminous, long-awaited debut collection, award-winning novelist Maureen F. McHugh wryly and delicately examines the impacts of social and technological shifts on families. Using beautiful, deceptively simple prose, she illuminates the relationship between parents and children and the expected and unexpected chasms that open between generations. A woman introduces her new lover to her late brother. A teenager is interviewed about her peer group's...
20) King Baby
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Baby is King, and all his needs must be met by his subjects, otherwise know as his parents, but soon he will grow up, and who will rule them then?