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Author
Series
Horrible Harry volume 16
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Miss Mackle's third graders share December holiday traditions --Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Three Kings Day, and Korean New Year-- with each other and with Harry's great grandfather, who has just moved to a nursing home.
3) Unwanted \
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A child growing up without his mother and father. Not feeling wanted by anyone. I thought you had to be blood to love someone but as I got older I learned anyone can love you.
Author
Series
Summer novels (Jenny Han) volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.
Author
Series
The Star and the Shamrock volume : 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When her husband doesn't come home one day, Ariella realizes that the only way she can ensure her Jewish children's safety is to avail of the Kindertransport, but can she bear to let them go? A thousand miles away, Elizabeth Klein has closed herself off from the world. Losing her husband on the last day of the Great War, and her child months later, she cannot, will not, love again. It hurts too much. But she is all Liesl and Erich Bannon have. Thrown...
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Language
English
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Description
Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.
14) Dust & grim
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Thirteen-year-old Molly doesn't know how she got the short end of the stick -- being raised by her neglectful father -- while Dustin, the older brother she's never met, got their mother and the keys to the family estate. But now the siblings are both orphaned, she's come home for her inheritance, and if Dustin won't welcome her into the family business, then she'll happily take her half in cash. There's just one problem: the family business is a...
15) Oma's quilt
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Grandmother is unhappy with her move to a retirement home, but Emily and her mother find a way to cheer her.
16) The natural world of Winnie-the-Pooh: a walk through the forest that inspired the Hundred Acre Wood
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Explores the inspiration for A.A. Milne's fictional Hundred Acre Wood, South-East England's Ashdown Forest, and how it influenced the author's famous works.
17) Sunnyside Plaza
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
While helping police officers Esther and Lon investigate a suspicious death at her group home, nineteen-year-old Sal Miyake, who is mentally challenged, gains insights into herself and makes new friends.
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Language
English
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Description
Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men, all the while dreaming of going to college and becoming a philosopher.
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