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Wishing Tree volume 1
Description
"The Somerville sisters believe in love, but they've lost faith it will happen for them. Reggie hasn't been home since the end of the world's shortest engagement. When her parents decide to renew their vows, she buffs up her twinkle to help with the Christmas wedding. Unexpectedly, Toby, her first love, is back too, and the spark between them shines as brightly as ever. In the spirit of the season, will they let go of past hurts and greet the New...
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Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
This book offers readers a look at different situations they might encounter during a divorce, from a parent moving out to spending time in two different homes. Age-appropriate text helps readers understand important topics such as child custody and stepfamilies.
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
viii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Presents solutions and proven systems for parents of children with sensory processing disorder, anxiety disorder, ADD/ADHD, autism, bipolar disorder, and OCD that bridge the gap between clinical support and practical in-home solutions.
6) Our house
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
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Description
"From an internationally acclaimed author, a disturbing and addictive novel of domestic suspense where secrets kept hidden from spouses cause shocking surprises that hit home... There's nothing unusual about a new family moving in at 91 Trinity Avenue. Except it's her house. And she didn't sell it. When Fiona Lawson comes home to find strangers moving into her house, she's sure there's been a mistake. She and her estranged husband, Bram, have a modern...
7) About a boy
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Will Freeman may have discovered the key to dating success: If the simple fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women, women who would not ordinarily look twice at Will might not only be willing, but enthusiastic about dating him, then he was really onto something. Single mothers, bright, attractive, available women, thousands of them, were all over London. He just had to find them. SPAT: Single Parents Alone Together. It was a brilliant...
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"What if parenting were an act of social justice? In this part story-telling, part self-inquiry book, authors and therapists Jaya Ramesh and Priya Saaral situate parenting children of color with neurodivergence within the context of various interlocking systems of oppression including settler colonialism, White supremacy, ableism, and capitalism. These intersections engender isolation and loneliness. Using the voices of parents on the front lines...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Lil and Frank married young, having bonded over how they both lost a parent when they were children. Over time, their marriage grew and strengthened, with each still wishing for so much more understanding of the parents they'd lost prematurely. Now, after many years in Boston, they have retired in North Carolina. There, Lil, determined to leave a history for their children, sifts through letters and notes and diary entries-perhaps revealing more...
11) The last song
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Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father--a former concert pianist and teacher--moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father--until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. An unforgettable story of love on many...
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""How can you not love a children's author who sees so clearly from her reader's point of view?"--Julie Bowen, actress, Modern Family"This book provides, through honest language and evocative imagery, a uniquely realistic view of how children experience divorce. While neither softening or white-washing this difficult topic, Higginbotham offers an ultimately comforting message to parents and children experiencing separation and divorce."-Lisa Spiegel,...
Author
Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xxxii, 280 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
From the author of the bestselling "Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew" comes an invaluable resource guide filled with practical advice to help adoptive parents form closer bonds with their children.
15) Parentless parents: how the loss of our mothers and fathers impacts the way we raise our children
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
282 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Discusses how an increase in the average age at which women give birth has resulted in greater numbers of children growing up without grandparents and examines how the absence of grandparents affects the way parents raise their children.
16) Mind games
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"As they do each June, the Foxes have driven the winding roads of Appalachia to drop off their children for a two-week stay at their grandmother's. Here, twelve-year-old Thea can run free and breathe in the smells of pine and fresh bread and Grammie's handmade candles. But as her parents head back to suburban Virginia, they have no idea they're about to cross paths with a ticking time bomb. Back in Kentucky, Thea and her grandmother Lucy both awaken...
18) My two moms
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Lenny, the class reporter, follows Elsie for a school project and learns about her life with her two moms.
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