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Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Told through the voice of the excited big sister, an informative look at how babies come about traces the embryo's development, explains conception, and shows the process of her mother going into labor.
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
432 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Updated to reflect current research and cultural trends, a guide to pregnancy and childbirth provides information to assist women in making decisions about prenatal tests, pain control, and how and where to give birth.
10) The quilt
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother is working in Chicago, a five-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a rural Norwegian American community in Minnesota.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A story of friendship set in nineteenth-century China follows an elderly woman and her companion as they communicate their hopes, dreams, joys, and tragedies through a unique secret language.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A Navajo family welcomes a new baby into the family with love and ceremony, eagerly waiting for that first special laugh.
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two pink lines on a pregnancy test. The primal scream of a woman pushing through her thirty-fifth hour of labor. The moment a still-wet newborn is placed in his mother's open arms after an unexpected c-section. The bottomless love reflected in the eyes of a father seeing his daughter for the first time. The moment a baby latches to her mother's breast. Or the moment that mother decides to switch to formula. Each of these, and so many more, are stories...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
247 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you're smart and talented and "good enough," you can do anything. Except get pregnant. Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything she'd ever attempted. Fertility problems were followed by miscarriages, and her eventual successful pregnancy plagued by health issues, up to a dramatic, near-death experience...