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3) Me & Mama
Author
Publisher
Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 28 cm
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Description
For a little girl on a rainy day, the best place to be is with Mama.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Seventeen-year-old Evie, devastated by her father's death and the knowledge that he had planned to leave their family for another woman pregnant with his child, finds a way forward through a prestigious photography class and handsome classmate Declan.
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"Anna Chiu has her hands full. When she's not looking after her brother and sister or helping out at her father's restaurant, she's taking care of her mother, whose debilitating mental illness keeps her in bed most days. Her father's new delivery boy, Rory, is a welcome distraction and even though she knows that things aren't right at home, she's starting to feel like she could be a normal teen."--Publisher
9) Bad hair day
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Franny tries to follow her mother's suggestion to change her appearance, but by turning hair styling into a science experiment she creates some very greedy pigtails that terrorize the town.
10) Trowbridge Road
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Struggling with her mother's advancing mental illness in the months after her father's death from complications of AIDS, a girl in the 1983 Boston suburbs befriends an imaginative boy with his own troubles before threats to her safety force her to make adifficult choice.
11) The okay witch
Author
Series
Okay witch volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
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Description
When thirteen-year-old Moth Hush learns she comes from a long line of witches, she unlocks a hidden witch world, where secrets from generations past unravel and the heart of her town and her family are threatened.
12) Just like a mama
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
Carol Olivia Clementine wishes her parents did not live so far away, but Mama Rose provides a home, loves her, and cares for her just like a mother would.
13) Unbecoming
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Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.
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Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 2
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Entering seventh grade at Walden Middle School, four girls continue their mother-daughter book club, reading Lucy Maud Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables," while dealing with a mean, troublemaking classmate.
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When her mother dies, Sparrow is left with only an aunt for a relative, and no human friends, because most of the residents of the small town of Beulah find her "unusual" and think her house near the Everglades is haunted (which it is)--in fact Sparrow's only real friend is the Boy, an unusually solid-seeming ghost who accompanies her everywhere, but never speaks, and who has a secret which Sparrow will need to discover, perhaps with the help of a...
16) Hello, future me
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Soon-to-be twelve-year-old June is a planner and a problem-solver, and right now she and her friend Calvin are planning a big welcome home celebration for her mother, only her plan falls apart when she finds out that her parents are getting a divorce; June is convinced that she can find some way to get her parents back together--until she starts getting messages on her "new" laptop (refurbished by a mysterious store called The Shop of Last Resort),...
17) Knit together
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
A little girl who loves to draw but cannot knit, and her mother who loves to knit but cannot draw, collaborate on a special project neither of them could have done alone.
18) Hauntley girls
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Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Vampirina and her mom decide to start a Mother-Daughter Book Club. For their first club meeting, they choose a book everyone can really sink their teeth into--only the book is magical and casts a spell on the humans. Vee and her mom will have to work together to break the spell"--
19) The escape
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Series
Horses of the dawn volume 1
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Estrella is a filly, daughter of the lead mare, one of a shipment of horses bound for the new world, but when the ship is becalmed and the horses are dropped overboard to lighten the load, Estrella finds that it is up to her to lead the herd to land and safety.
20) Moonflower
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Moon is convinced that they do not belong to this world: that most of the time they are invisible (unless they stay still too long), that they belong to the stars, and want to go back to them--they live entirely in their imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest their words tie them to a world they reject.
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