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Author
Pub. Date
p2009
Description
Chair for my mother: A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.
Something special for me: Rosa has difficulty choosing a special birthday present to buy with the coins her mother and grandmother have saved, until she hears a man playing beautiful music on an accordion.
Music, music for everyone: Rosa plays her accordion with her friends in the Oak Street...
11103) Eli the good
Author
Pub. Date
p2011
Description
For ten-year-old Eli Book, the summer of 1976 is the one that threatened to tear his family apart. There is his distant mother; his traumatized Vietnam vet dad; his wild sister; his former war protester aunt; and his tough yet troubled best friend, Edie, the only person with whom he can be himself. As tempers flare and his father's nightmares rage, Eli watches from the sidelines, but soon even he cannot escape the current of conflict.
11104) Mary Poppins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who, with her magical umbrella, flies into the lives of a proper, upper crust Edwardian English banker and his two children. She proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers and, in the process, teaches the family just how much fun life can be.
11107) The metamorphosis
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In graphic novel format, reworks Kafka's tale of family and alienation featuring traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who awakens in his family home one morning to find himself turned into a giant bug.
11109) Being mean (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): a memoir of sexual abuse and survival
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Appears on list
Description
"In this richly depicted story, told in vignettes relative to markers of age and experience, Patricia Eagle reveals the heartbreak and destruction of her sexual abuse, from age four to thirteen, by her father. A victim of her father's anger and her mother's complacency with his abusive behavior, Eagle uses dissociation and numbing in response to the abuse, and as a way to block her own sense of self. How does a child confused by episodes of abuse...
11110) My two border towns
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"A boy and his father cross the United States-Mexico border every other Saturday, visiting their favorite places, spending time with family and friends, and sharing in the responsibility of community care."
11111) Overground railroad
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"A girl named Ruth Anne tells the story of her family's train journey from North Carolina to New York City as part of the Great Migration"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Edgar and Allan Poe, great-great-great-great-grandnephews of the legendary Edgar Allan Poe, managed to outwit the nefarious Professor P. Pangborn Perry, who is determined to kill one of them in order to prove a mad scientific theory. Now the boys are in New Orleans, about to play the young Poe in a feature film. But the role may cost them their lives, because now someone else wants them dead. But who? Can the twins, with the help of their co-stars,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Appears on these lists
Description
"A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...
11115) Cow Boy: a boy and his horse
Author
Series
Cow Boy volume 1
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
"Story of a young bounty hunter determined to send his entire outlaw family to jail. He travels the Old West on a horse that ain't his, and won't stop til every one'a his kin's in the clink" -- from publisher's web site.
Author
Series
Peter Powers volume 5
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Peter and his best friends embark on an adventure to defeat an army of snowmen, and in the process they save the holidays from being ruined"--
11117) DuckTales volume 3
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Return to Duckburg, USA with Scrooge McDuck and his smart-alecky nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie. This collection finds them on a journey to an African jungle, stowed away on a secret aircraft carrier, and rocketing into space to search for a lost "Money Bin." But wherever their zany adventures take them, Uncle Scrooge and his crew, including the energetic pilot Launchpad McQuack, never forget that their greatest treasures are family and friendship....
11118) Until someone listens
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"The true story of Estela Jaurez, a young American girl who writes letters to her local newspaper, to Congress, and even to the president, pleading for someone to listen and reunite her family after her mother's deportation."
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
If you or someone you love grew up with an emotionally unavailable, narcissistic, or selfish parent, you probably struggle with residual feelings of anger, abandonment, loneliness, or shame. For anyone who endured a nightmare or a wasteland instead of a nurturing childhood, this book will offer you the clinical insights and the day-to-day tools so you can break the chains of toxicity that bind you in a mess you didn't create.
11120) Confessions
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
After investigating multiple homicides and her family's decades-old skeletons in the closet, Tandy Angel is finally reunited with her lost love in Paris. But as he grows increasingly distant, Tandy is confronted with disturbing questions about him, as well as what really happened to her long-dead sister. With no longer any way to tell whom in her life she can trust, how will Tandy ever get to the bottom of the countless secrets her parents kept from...