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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.
2) The Postcard
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
475 pages
Language
English
Description
A MAY 2023 INDIE NEXT PICK
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023
WINNER OF THE AMERICAN CHOIX GONCOURT PRIZE
WINNER OF THE PRIX RENAUDOT DES LYCÉENS
WINNER OF THE ELLE READERS PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE GONCOURT PRIZE
Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters,...
3) Rewind
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"As far as twelve-year-old McKinley O'Dair is concerned, the best thing about living in Gap Bend, Pennsylvania, is the Time Hop--the giant party the town throws every June to celebrate a single year in history. That one day is enough to make the few things that aren't so fantastic about McKinley's life--like her crabby homeroom teacher or her super-scheduled father--worth suffering through. And when McKinley learns that this year's theme is 1993,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this dystopian tale, young Erie and her older sister, Hurona, leave the only home they've ever known and discover that the world is much larger and more complicated than they'd ever imagined"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sisters Matilde, Pastora, Camila, and Flor thought they knew each other well, until Flor--inspired by a documentary her daughter Ona made her watch--decides she wants a living wake, a party to bring her family and community together and celebrate the long life she's led, while she's still around to enjoy it. She's not ill, as far as anybody knows, but Flor does have a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. Has she foreseen her...
7) Juneteenth
Author
Publisher
Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
An African American family attends a modern-day Juneteenth parade in Galveston, Texas (the birthplace of the holiday). Text includes lines from "Lift Every Voice and Sing."
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.
9) 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...
10) Stowaway
Author
Series
Icarus chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
To save his father, a Coalition scientist protecting a precious resource, after their ship is attacked, Leo stows away on a strange ship of mercenary space pirates and must decide who to trust--human or alien--to stay alive.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Stuck at the lake in the middle of a Wisconsin winter, Drew and his younger sister and brother struggle to stay together after their manipulative, con artist mother dies, which they can only do if they can keep her death a secret.
12) We still belong
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Wesley's hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples' Day (and asking her crush to the dance) go all wrong--until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at the intertribal powwow"--
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.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
225 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After making an ill-fated wish that results in the death of her grandmother, Halmoni, in Korea, guilt-ridden Yuna finds her body turning into paper and must bring Halmoni back or turn into paper forever.