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Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Fountas & Pinnell
K
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Yasmin struggles with Ms. Alex's assignment to write an essay about her hero until she realizes that her hero is someone very close to her.
42) The wicked ones
Author
Series
Dark ascension novel volume 1
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Attending the royal debut party, their one chance to impress the Prince and live up to their cruel and bitter mother's expectations, sisters Drizella and Anastasia get a taste of freedom, pitting them against a mother whose greatest power lies in manipulation.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sent to her grandmother's estate in Trinidad, Rika meets a group of kids with elemental powers called Minders, who reveal that her long-lost mom is in danger, sending Rika on a magical adventure where she must learn to believe in herself to destroy evil.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
After Emma returns home from boarding school, she realizes her mother is suffering from a schizophrenic break, and suddenly, Emma's entire childhood and identity is called into question, pushing her to turn to her boyfriend, Daniel, for answers, but perhaps it is the brooding Phil who Emma meets while visiting her mother at the hospital who really understands her.
46) August Isle
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"For years, Miranda has stared at postcards of August Isle, Florida. The town where her mother spent her summers as a girl. The town that Miranda has always ached to visit. She just never wanted it to happen this way. When she arrives on the Isle, alone and uncertain, to stay the summer with an old friend of her mother's, Miranda discovers a place even more perfect than she imagined. And she finds a new friend in Sammy, "Aunt" Clare's daughter. But...
48) The foretelling
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Growing up the daughter of an Amazon queen who shuns her, Rain rebels against the ways of her tribe through her sister-like relationship with Io and her feelings for a boy from a tribe of wanderers.
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
408 pages : color map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Xiang and Anh--ages sixteen and seventeen--hunt the South China Sea for the lost treasure of the fabled pirate queen Zheng Yi Sao.
50) Mommy's khimar
Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A young Muslim girl puts on a head scarf and not only feels closer to her mother, she also imagines herself as a queen, the sun, a superhero, and more.
51) The arsonist
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
493 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Molly Mavity and Pepper Yusef are dealing with their own personal tragedies when they are tasked by an anonymous person with solving the decades-old murder of Ava Dryman, an East German teenager whose diary was published after her death.
52) A mother's love
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Merida is a princess. Her mother is the queen. Can their love save the kingdom?"--P. [4] of cover.
"Pixar Animation Studio's 13th animated feature film, Disney/Pixar Brave, is an epic adventure set in the rugged and mysterious Highlands of Scotland. Determined to carve her own path in life, a skilled archer named Princess Merida defies a sacred age-old custom - and inadvertently unleashes a beastly curse upon the kingdom. To set things right, Merida...
53) Love & gelato
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"After her mother dies, Lina travels to Italy where she discovers her mothers's journal and sets off on an adventure to unearth her mother's secrets"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
When her mother goes on a business trip, a little girl, who loves to sit between Mama and Mommy at the table, misses her a lot and feels empty until Mommy finally comes home, filling the void with love.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Sunny St. James must navigate heart surgery, reconnections with a lost mother, the betrayal of a former best friend, first kisses, and emerging feelings for another girl"--
56) Paris for two
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Petunia is used to living in the shadow of her fourteen-year-old half-sister, Ava, their mother's favorite, but now that the whole family has moved to Paris for a year, Pet finds herself stepping into the light, making new friends, uncovering secrets, and, inspired by the classic French dolls she has found, revealing an unexpected talent for designing dresses--and her beautiful sister does not take it well.
57) Out of the Easy
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
346 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 pages (unnumbered) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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,...
59) Love is powerful
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A little girl carries a big message--and finds it ... amplified by the rallying crowd around her--in an empowering story for the youngest of activists"--Publisher marketing.
60) Tune it out
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lou Montgomery's life has been centered on her mother's terrifying plan to make her a singing star, but a crisis reveals Lou's sensory processing disorder and people determined to help her address it.
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