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Hello, future me
By Kim Ventrella. 2020
Eleven-year-old June is a problem-solver. Some people might call her a busybody, but that's okay. Just look at all the…
couples she helped find love! (Grateful newlyweds Marlene and Big Vic have even promised June free hot chocolate for life at their café.)However, when June learns that her parents are getting divorced, she has to face the fact that there are some problems too big even for her. At least, that's what the adults in her life keep saying.But June's convinced there's a way to make her parents fall back in love. While brainstorming ideas on her new secondhand laptop-purchased from a mysterious store in town called The Shop of Last Resort-June gets a strange IM from someone named JuniePie28…someone who claims to be an older version of June messaging her from the future.At first, she assumes it's a prank. But JuniePie28 knows too much about June's life to be a fraud, and future June warns her against interfering with her parents' marriage. But June can't just sit around and watch her parents' marriage dissolve, not when there's a magical shop in town that could be the answer to all her problems! Will June prove her older self wrong and stop the divorce? Or will she have to accept that there are some things she can't control?Just ask!: be different, be brave, be you
By Rafael López, Sonia Sotomayor. 2019
Rescue: a novel
By Anita Shreve. 2010
Young EMT Webster's strong attraction to drunken car-crash victim Sheila quickly leads to dating, pregnancy, marriage, and the birth of…
Rowan. When Sheila's drinking becomes dangerous, Webster sends her away and raises Rowan alone. Now seventeen-year-old Rowan is drinking and Sheila reappears. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2010A mom for Umande
By Susan Kathleen Hartung, Maria Fasal Faulconer, Maria Faulconer. 2014
Because his own mother is too young to take care of him, Umande, a newborn gorilla, is fed and cuddled…
by human zookeepers until a surrogate mother is found. For grades K-3Ketzel, the cat who composed
By Lesléa Newman, Leslea Newman, Amy June Bates. 2015
Composer Moshe Cotel adopts a six-toed, black-and-white kitten whom he calls Ketzel, and when he needs a piece to enter…
in a contest for music less than a minute long, it is Ketzel who provides the solution. For preschool-grade 2Drive
By Nathan Clement. 2008
The skin you live in
By Michael Tyler, David Lee Csicsko. 2005
A squirrel's story: a true tale
By Jana Bommersbach, Jeff Yesh. 2013
A squirrel moves into a birdhouse to keep her babies safe from the neighborhood cat. However, she worries that her…
son is becoming overly afraid of the world that awaits him outside. For grades K-3I have a sister--my sister is deaf
By Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson, Deborah Kogan Ray. 1977
One time, I saw morning come home: a remembrance
By Clair Huffaker. 1974
Noted western author's tender novelization of his parents' life and love together. Tells stories of his gentle mother, Orlean, and…
his wild, passionate father, Clair, from their first meeting as teenagers in a little Utah mining town to their valiant struggles through the Great Depression and starting a family. 1974Father figure: a novel
By Richard Peck. 1996
Seventeen-year-old Jim and eight-year-old Byron are reunited with their father after their mother's death. Jim was Byron's father figure for…
years but now must find a new role for himself in the family. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 1978Hannah's winter of hope (Pioneer Daughters #3)
By Jean Van Leeuwen, Harry Bliss, Donna Diamond. 2000
Fairfield, Connecticut. In the winter of 1780, Hannah hopes for the safe return of her brother Ben, a colonial soldier…
imprisoned by the British, as she helps her family rebuild their home. Sequel to Hannah's Helping Hands (DB 55798). For grades 2-4. 2000Hannah's helping hands (Pioneer Daughters #2)
By Jean Van Leeuwen, Donna Diamond, Phyllis Fogelman. 1999
1779. In this sequel to Hannah of Fairfield (DB 55797), the Revolutionary War is drawing closer to the Perley's home…
in Connecticut. Hannah and her family keep busy with farm chores and try not to worry about Ben, a soldier in the colonial army. For grades 2-4. 1999. 24. 1999Aria of the sea
By Dia Calhoun. 2000
In a magical kingdom by the sea, talented thirteen-year-old commoner Cerinthe wins a place in the School of the Royal…
Dancers. She ignores her gift for healing until a life-threatening accident occurs. Then Cerinthe realizes she must decide which career to follow to truly be herself. For grades 6-9. 2000Criando a nuestros niños: educando a niños latinos en un mundo bicultural
By Gloria G Rodriguez, Gloria G. Rodriguez. 1999
A Latina mother and specialist in family education presents a manual of information on child rearing. Includes personal anecdotes, songs,…
recipes, adages, and games designed to preserve the cultural heritage and family integrity of Latino children. Spanish language. 1999Players
By Joyce Sweeney, Joyce Sweeny. 2000
Naive Corey, captain of his high school basketball team, readily accepts newcomer Noah as a member of the squad. But…
as bad and illegal events start happening, Corey recognizes that Noah is evil and manipulates everyone. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2000Where the flame trees bloom
By Alma Flor Ada. 1994
Children's book author tells of growing up in Cuba with her extended family. She has picked stories from those "hanging…
in the branches of the trees of (her) childhood." Alma's blind great-grandmother Mina, who sold or gave handmade dolls to neighbors and gave gifts to her relatives according to their wealth and needs, managed to keep things in balance even though she never learned mathematics. For grades 3-6The promise of rest (The Mayfield family trilogy #Bk. 3)
By Reynolds Price. 1995
In this sequel to The Surface of Earth (DB 41386) and The Source of Light (DB 41387), Price continues his…
tale of the Mayfield family. In April 1993, Hutch travels to New York to bring his son Wade, who is dying of AIDS and has recently lost his lover, back home to North Carolina. It is Wade's return that will bring reconciliation to the family. Some strong languageThe source of light (The Mayfield family trilogy #Bk. 2)
By Reynolds Price. 1995
As Price continues his story of the Mayfield family, he focuses on Hutchins Mayfield. In 1955, at twenty-five, Hutch has…
left his career as a prep school teacher in Virginia and his girlfriend, Ann, and traveled to England, where he is studying at Oxford and beginning a career as a writer. Sequel to The Surface of Earth (DB 41386)Fathers and children: Introduction by John Bayley (Everyman's Library Classics Series)
By Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Avril Pyman. 1991
Classic nineteenth-century Russian novel portraying the conflicting points of view of two generations. The protagonist, Bazarov, is a young, radical…
intellectual who tries in vain to convert his aristocratic father and his friend's uncle to his theories of a new social order