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1) Class mom
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Laurie Gelman's clever debut novel about a year in the life of a kindergarten class mom--a brilliant send-up of the petty and surprisingly cutthroat terrain of parent politics. Jen Dixon is not your typical Kansas City kindergarten class mom--or mom in general. Jen already has two college-age daughters by two different (probably) musicians, and it's her second time around the class mom block with five-year-old Max--this time with a husband and father...
Author
Series
A class mom novel volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A follow-up to "Class Mom" finds Jen Dixon agreeing to school-parent her son's third-grade class only to find herself overwhelmed by her husband's late hours, her daughters' early adulthood, and the needs of her aging parents.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A young girl is skeptical when her parents declare they will have a simple Christmas focused on giving rather than getting, but soon their old barn is filled with food, fun, friends, and homemade gifts. Includes directions for making star ornaments, Christmas card coasters, and melted crayon rocks.
Author
Publisher
Ember
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Ember edition.
Physical Desc
179 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
Author
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Old Keb Wisting is somewhere around ninety-five years old (he lost count a while ago) and in constant pain and thinks he wants to die. He also thinks he thinks too much. Part Norwegian and part Tlingit Native ('with some Filipino and Portuguese thrown in'), he's the last living canoe carver in the village of Jinkaat, in Southeast Alaska. When his grandson, James, a promising basketball player, ruins his leg in a logging accident and tells his grandpa...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Kelsey and her father begin tapping sugar maple trees as family and friends gather to help in the process of turning the harvested sap into maple syrup.