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1) Remember us
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The summer before seventh grade, as the constant threat of housefires looms over her Brooklyn neighborhood, basketball-loving Sage is trying to figure out her place in her circle of friends, when a new kid named Freddy moves in"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It's a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what's left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse super, a rowdy family of squirrels, and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone's business. Can a dead tree full of annoying...
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In Accra, Ghana, after Ato's father dies his mother sends him to spend the summer with his grandmother where he learns about his father's vibrant, complicated life, and learns to honor his past with hope for his own future.
Author
Series
Monsterstreet volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Max Bloodnight can't decide what's more terrifying about his weekend in Wolf County--the fact that he has to stay with grandparents he's never met before or being stuck on a farm without cell service. If only that was all he had to fear. Determined to solve the mystery of his father's death, which occurred years before at the claws of a legendary werewolf, Max must hunt to uncover the truth before the full moon rises . . . and the werewolf strikes...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
Cat is the glue holding her family together. If her little brother Chicken has a meltdown, she knows just how to calm him, whether it's scratching his back or reading his favourite book. But with their mum working extra hard after their dad's death, Cat is struggling to keep everything afloat. When Cat and Chicken are sent to spend the summer on Gingerbread Island with the grandparents they've never met, she suddenly has the space to be a kid again....
7) Mascot
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Noah Savino has been stuck in a wheelchair for months. He hates the way people treat him like he's helpless now. He's sick of going to physical therapy, where he isn't making any progress. He's tired of not having control over his own body. And he misses playing baseball--but not as much as he misses his dad, who died in the car accident that paralyzed Noah. Noah is scared he'll never feel like his old self again. He doesn't want people to think...
8) Being Clem
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 3
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
When nine-year-old Clem's father dies in the Port Chicago Disaster he is forced to navigate his family's losses and struggles in 1940's Chicago.
1944. Clem's father is away, serving as a sailor in World War II. When the family receives news that his father has died in the infamous Port Chicago explosion in San Francisco, everything begins to fall apart. Clem's mother is forced to work long, tough hours as a maid for a wealthy white family. The obstacles...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eleven-year-old Stella Rodriguez finds herself in possession of a strange new pet that swallows up everything in sight when a black hole decides to follow her home"--
Eleven-year-old Stella Rodriguez finds herself in possession of a strange new pet that swallows up everything in sight when a black hole decides to follow her home from NASA one day. Stella especially likes it when Larry swallows up items that remind her of her dad who died recently...
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