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Author
Series
Enola Holmes mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, must travel to London in disguise to unravel the disappearance of her missing mother.
2) Black heart
Author
Series
Vampirates volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
While Connor and the Pirate Federation attempt to stop a new ship of vampirates, his twin sister Grace and their long-lost mother Sally reunite, and Sally reveals some news that is devastating for the twins.
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Language
English
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"Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of working as a chef." --
Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago has been doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness. She dreams of working as a chef after...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland to spend a month with the mother they barely know, 11-year-old Delphine and her sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover their mother wants them to attend a Black Panther summer camp. Book #1.
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
After dropping out of college, nineteen-year-old Laurel Early returns to her uncle's tobacco farm, where she encounters a monster as well as her mother's ghost, and soon Laureal realizes that she must tap into her own innate magic to save everyone she loves.
10) Son
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 4
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
11) She is Mama
Author
Publisher
Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From a captain of grand adventures to a silent supporter, any mother knows that to be one is to be so many different things and also just to be one thing: a mama."--
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Red doesn't remember who she is or where she came from. In fact, her only memory is a terrifying, repeating dream of a threatening shadow and a foggy field. But after many years, she wonders if that's just something she made up. Red does know that she now belongs with Yakaka, the witch who rescued Red when she was a little girl. Full of power and magic, Yakaka travels the world, healing the planet when it calls for her help. Yakaka carries Red between...
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Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"When Ma Peachey resigned from being a mother to take up yoga instead, the rest of the family took up being in crisis: no one cooked dinner, no one picked up the dirty laundry, and the children were always late for school. Ma might be off finding inner peace, but Pa Peachey, Ava, and Ollie are falling apart! Only almost-nine-year-old Betty is wise enough to know that the family needs to be rescued. Enter McTavish - a rescue dog on a mission to rescue...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the eagerly awaited birth of her daughter, Kaavia James Union Wade, ... author and ... actress Gabrielle Union pens a festive and universal love letter from parents to little ones, [meant to welcome] a baby to the party of life"--Publisher marketing.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Gertie is a girl on a mission to be the best fifth grader ever in order to show her estranged mother that Gertie doesn't need her--not one bit!"--
Gertie Reece Foy is 100% Not-From-Concentrate awesome. She has a daddy who works on an oil rig, a great-aunt who always finds the lowest prices at the Piggly Wiggly, and two loyal best friends. So when her absent mother decides to move away from their small town, Gertie sets out on her greatest mission...
17) Mami
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
¡Mami abraza! ¡Mami besa! ¡Mami se ríe! Bebé celebra a una mami muy especial con humor y cariño.
Every day is Mother's Day as the inimitable Baby sings Mommy's praises in a board book full of humor and heart.
18) The storyteller
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Ziggy's mother disappeared ten years ago, one of the many Native women who have mysteriously gone missing, and Ziggy believes a secret cave may hold the key--so with his sister, Moon, and friends Alice and Corso, he sets out to find the cave and solve the mystery of his family's origins.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After her mother's death, thirteen-year-old Opal moves to her uncle's farm where she befriends a group of orphaned, music-loving bats, and summons the courage to protect them from a mining company as she attempts to find them a new home.
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