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21) Lucero
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
Español
Description
"A nurturing voice reassures the lonely and afraid in difficult times"--
Author
Series
Children of exile volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A twelve-year-old girl raised in a foster village is returned to her biological parents, and discovers home is not what she expected it to be.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Keeping a wakeful vigil for the monsters that creep into her room late at night, a young monster slayer uses special bubblegum perfume to fend off werewolves and vampires, before she is stymied by her sleep-deprived zombie parents.
27) Too many toys
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Although he finally agrees that he has too many toys and needs to give them away, there is one toy that Spencer absolutely cannot part with.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Emma-Rose Paley has always felt very different from her bubbly, outgoing parents. Unlike them, Emma-Rose has pale skin and jet-black hair, she prefers gray weather to sunshine, and she hates the taste of garlic. When Emma-Rose's great-aunt Margo comes to visit from Romania, Emma-rose uncovers a dark family secret and has a sudden revelation. Could Emma-Rose be a real, live vampire?" (publisher).
Author
Language
English
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Black Voices | Kids PEQ
DEN: Across the Universe! ⭐
JEF - Black Voices (Children)
JEF - Women's History (Children)
DEN: Across the Universe! ⭐
JEF - Black Voices (Children)
JEF - Women's History (Children)
Formats
Description
When young Mae Jemison is asked by her teacher what she wants to be when she grows up, African American Mae tells her mostly white classmates that she wants to be an astronaut, a dream that her parents wholeheartedly support.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
"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
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
To help her deal with her separation from her family, worry about her mother's serious operation, and suspicions about a new friend's abusive father, twelve-year-old Dawn creates an imaginary world while spending the summer of 1958 with her great-aunt and uncle in rural North Carolina.
Author
Series
Petunia books volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Petunia so desperately wants a pet skunk that she refuses to believe her parents when they say skunks stink.
37) Here with me
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A child concludes that the best place to be is together with one's parent.
39) The perfect seat
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Eager to read together, a parent and child search for the perfect seat.
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