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4261) Karen's worst day
Author
Series
Baby-sitters little sister) volume 3
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Another graphic novel in this fun series spin-off of The Baby-sitters Club, featuring Kristy's little stepsister! Karen is having a terrible day. Her favorite jeans are missing, there's no prize in the Crunch-O cereal box, and Boo-Boo the cat won't play with her. She even gets punished and sent to her room! Karen tries everything to make her day better, but nothing is going right and her bad luck just won't go away. Will this be the worst day ever?...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
As families and communities come together--and stay apart--in creative ways this holiday season, bring comfort and joy to children with this story about a Christmas like no other. Always Together at Christmas highlights different family traditions and the ways they're changing in 2020: from Santa's elves practicing social distancing to opening presents via Zoom on Christmas morning. And it even includes ideas for new quarantine-appropriate Christmas...
Author
Series
Lola Levine volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Lola Levine finally gets a kitten, but when the family learns that Ben is allergic, they will have to find a new home for the pet"--
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family's history, this masterful story follows the Cassars over seven decades, starting with patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them, and ending with Chloe, who believes telling her family's buried stories will bring them all peace.
Author
Publisher
Nolo
Pub. Date
2024
Description
When you're getting divorced, you can make a tough time easier for your children (and yourself) if you work with the other parent to draw up a custody plan and agree on child support. Doskow shows you how negotiation and mediation can keep costs down; where to find your state's child support guidelines; how to enforce and change custody and support orders; what military families need to know, and much more.
4267) Across so many seas
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Spanning over five hundred years, a novel telling the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and start a new life"--
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters Justin Scheck and Bradley Hope (coauthor of Billion Dollar Whale), a revelatory look at the inner workings of the world's most powerful ruling family, the royal family of Saudi Arabia, revealing how a rift within that family produced Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, aka MBS, a charismatic leader with a ruthless streak"--
Mohammed bin Salman convinced the world that his desire to reform the kingdom...
4269) Strike zone
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Twelve-year-old Nick García dreams of winning MVP of his summer baseball league, of finding a cure for his sister, of meeting his hero, Yankee pitcher Michael Arroyo, and of no longer living in fear of the government and ICE agents.
Author
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"For generations, the ancestors of Welshman Owen Tudor had fought Romans, Irish Picts, Vikings, Saxons, Mercians and Normans. His uncles had been executed in the Glyndwr Welsh War of Independence. Owen fought for Henry V in France and entered the service of Henry's queen, Catherine of Valois. Soon after the king's death he secretly married her, the mother of the eight-month-old Henry VI. Owen and Catherine would have two boys together. Henry VI would...
4271) Paper wife
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"A heart-wrenching story about finding strength in a new world. Southern China, 1923. Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling's parents arrange a marriage to a widower in California. To enter the country, she must pretend to be her husband's first wife--a paper wife. On the perilous voyage, Mei Ling takes an orphan girl named Siew under her wing. Dreams of a better life in America give Mei Ling the strength to endure the treacherous journey and...
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Family life can be full of misunderstandings even when you're all the same species. So just imagine what would happen if your little sister was a cat! Enjoy the charming complications in the lives of Nekota, his adorable sister Neneko, and their parents and friends.
4273) It had to be you
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Two identical brothers, both handsome, intelligent and popular recent college graduates, seemingly perfect in every way. That is, until the shocking summer night when one of them killed their parents in cold blood. The other has an iron-clad alibi, but which twin was where during the murders? And is it possible the two of them planned the perfect crime together?
Years later, the case is still unsolved, and the brothers are long estranged. Each of...
4274) Bright Island
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
When sixteen-year-old Thankful Curtis must leave Bright Island, Maine, for the first time in 1937, she has trouble adjusting to life on the mainland, new people, and "proper schooling," and yearns for her days of farming with her father and sailing.
4275) Homegrown
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
A young Black girl, with the help of her Mama and Granny, learns that home isn't just a place but rather a reflection of people who support and love one another.
4276) Lucky broken girl
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.
4277) Hooky
Author
Publisher
Etch
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
When Dani and Dorian missed the bus to magic school, they never thought they'd wind up declared traitors to their own kind! Now, thanks to a series of mishaps, they are being chased by powerful magic families seeking the prophesied King of Witches and royals searching for missing princes. But they aren't alone. With a local troublemaker, a princess, and a teacher who can see the future on their side, they might just be able to clear their names...but...
4278) Kin: rooted in hope
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
4279) Esperanza Rising
Author
Description
When tragedy strikes Esperanza and her family, they must flee Mexico, overcome hardship and embrace a new future.
4280) The first state of being
Author
Series
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Michael Rosario, an eleven-year-old Filipino boy living with his single mother in an apartment complex in Delaware, meets a mysterious boy from the future in this suspenseful stand-alone novel by the award-winning and bestselling Erin Entrada Kelly. For fans of Rebecca Stead's When You Reach Me.
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