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Everyone's family is unique--and good! From sprawling extended families and close-knit units to adopted and chosen families, A Family Like Ours celebrates all those important connections we build over the years. Regardless of what yours looks like, family is a place for support, safety, growth, and inspiration. What is special, surprising, or sensational about your family?
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Atheneum
Pub. Date
2023.
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288 pages ; 22 cm
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Set in 1996 southern California, high school senior Rana Joon wants to honor her deceased best friend by entering a rap contest and living authentically as a lesbian, but feels conflicted by her Iranian family's expectations.
4) Squished
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Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
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243 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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Eleven-year-old Avery Lee loves living in Hickory Valley, Maryland. She loves her neighborhood, school, and the end-of-summer fair she always goes to with her two best friends. But she's tired of feeling squished by her six siblings! They're noisy and chaotic and the younger kids love her a little too much. All Avery wants is her own room -- her own space to be alone and make art. So she's furious when Theo, her grumpy older brother, gets his own...
5) Be mine
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Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway. Now in the twilight of life, a man who has occupied many colorful lives-sportswriter, father, husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agent--Bascombe finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all: caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter odyssey to Mount Rushmore, Frank, in typical Bascombe...
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
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"What does it take to make a perfect family meal? Is it the forks, spoons, plates, and napkins? Maybe it’s sister’s lemonade, Papi’s guacamole, or delicious meatballs and ravioli eyed by a hungry pup. When it’s time to sit down and dig in, there’s one thing everybody agrees they need to do, 'Baby, baby, pass the baby!' This...picture book about one (rather large) diverse family dinner table captures the buzz and...
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 15
Publisher
Molino/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Greg y su familia están listos para vivir la aventura de sus vidas, pero acaban en un campamento que no es exactamente un paraíso para turistas. Cuando menos se lo esperan, los cielos se abren y empieza a llover a cántaros. Entonces los Heffley se plantean si todavía están a tiempo de salvar sus vacaciones o si ya están con el agua al cuello.
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Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2020]
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328 pages ; 22 cm
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Juan tiene grandes planes. Va a ser el muchacho de El Paso que salio adelante, va a conseguir esa beca de basquetbol para ir a la universidad y va hacer algo de su vida... algo mejor que la sarta de novios nefastos de Fabi, su mama. Solo necesita hacerlo realidad. El mejor amigo de Juan, JD, tambien tiene planes. Algun dia va a ser cineasta, como Tarantino o Del Toro (no Spielberg). Tiene una camara y tiene pasion. Que mas se necesita? Fabi ya no...
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American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
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93 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm.
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Caroline and her mother make a danagerous trip across Lake Ontario to the British fort where her father is a prisoner. When Mama isn't allowed to see Papa, it's up to Caroline to deliver a secret message to him--right under the nose of a British guard
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