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61) Tree of Dreams
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Coco Hidden has grown up in her mother's chocolate shop in Colorado, along with her friend Leo de la Cueva, but recently things have not been going well; the shop is failing, and Leo is hanging out with the other boys, and barely wants to talk to her--but when they both win a culinary contest, the two children and their mothers find themselves on a trip to the Amazon in Ecuador, where Coco hopes to find the rare ceiba tree, and where...
62) Flying
Author
Series
Flying volume 1
Publisher
a Tor Teen Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Mana has always lived a normal life, albeit with an overprotective mother, until the day she comes home to find the house trashed and an alien in the garage. It turns out her mother is an alien hunter who has absconded with a piece of technology that everyone--human and alien--wants to get their hands on. When her mother's partner shows up and orders Mana to come with him, it may be up to Mana to save her mother--and the world.
63) Away
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A gentle tale told entirely through sticky notes between a mother and daughter as the girl's departure for her first summer camp draws near demonstrates how love can be found even in scribbled messages and other unlikely places.
64) Starfish
Author
Language
English
Description
Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--
Ever since she wore a whale swimsuit and made a big splash at her fifth birthday party, Ellie's been bullied about her weight. To cope, she tries to live by her list of Fat Girl Rules, which are all about not standing out. And she's found a haven in her swimming pool, where she...
65) A comb of wishes
Author
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Kela is still mourning her mother when she finds a mermaid's comb while she and her friend are looking for sea glass on her Caribbean island; such combs have magic in them, and touching it opens a connection to the mermaid Ophidia who can grant her wish, to bring her mother back to life--but all wishes have consequences, and magic demands a price which may prove to be more painful than the loss of her mother.
66) One true way
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From the moment she met Samantha, star of the school basketball team, on her first day at Daniel Boone Middle School, Allison Drake felt she had found a friend, something she needs badly since her brother died and her father left--but as their friendship grows it begins to evolve into a deeper emotion, and in North Carolina in 1977, it is not easy to discover that you might be gay.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Ellie Magari's mother left shortly after Ellie was born, and her father has raised her, but Ellie always figured that one day she would meet her mother and ask her some pertinent questions--but now her mother has died, and Ellie does not know exactly how to feel about that, but she is determined, with the help of her friends in the St. Francis of Assisi's Howling Wolves marching band (where she plays the glockenspiel), to make some...
68) Pies & prejudice
Author
Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 4
Publisher
Ideal Audiobooks, LLC
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Four girls, and their mothers, continue their mother-daughter book club via videoconference between Massachusetts and England, reading Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," and try to put friendship before romance.
69) Hairs =: Pelitos
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
A girl describes how each person in the family has hair that looks and acts different, Papa's like a broom, Kiki's like fur, and Mama's with the sweet smell of bread before it's baked.
70) Meltdown!
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From the best selling author of 'Five minutes peace' comes another true to life, family comedy about a mother rabbit who decides to take her toddler bunny, Ruby, to the supermarket. Ruby wants to be helpful, but can't resist the crunch of crisps, and the roll of tins...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
As cast members of a reality dating show for single parent families Cara Hawn and her mother go to Key West where Cara meets Connor and now she must juggle her growing feelings while helping her mom pick a bachelor they both love.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A novel-in-verse about a 12-year-old Dominican American girl who must keep her love of swimming a secret from her mother, is diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis, and is forced to reimagine the person she is to become.
Author
Series
Lulu Sinagtala and the Tagalog gods volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Discovering that the creatures and deities of Tagalog myth are real when her mom is kidnapped, Lulu Sinagtala is drawn into a centuries-long war that threatens to throw the whole universe into chaos while trying to save her mom with her newfound powers"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali is looking forward to going to Caltech and getting away from her conservative Muslim parents' expectation that she will marry, especially since she is in love with her girlfriend Ariana--but when her parents catch her kissing Ariana, they whisk Rukhsana off to Bangladesh and a world of tradition and arranged marriages, and she must find the courage to fight for the right to choose her own path.
Author
Publisher
Picarona
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Camila, whose family consists of her, her mother, and Gimmy the dog, does not have a father and has never missed having one, so she really does not know what to do when a substitute teacher asks her to draw the father she wishes she had.
76) Remedy
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
A girl who has been struggling with inexplicable poor health her entire life becomes the focal point of her mother's increasingly suspicious online funding campaign for medical expenses.
It feels like Cara has been sick all her life, but she and her mom have never stayed in one place long enough for doctors to really understand what is happening to her. Now, at fourteen, Cara is tired of being tired, and sick of being sick. And it's only getting...
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After losing her mom. Willa is grieving and having a hard time living with her dad and his new family on an island off the coast of Washington State. Her dad tries to cheer her up by taking her whale watching, something Willa's mom used to do. While all the passengers are on one side of the boat, Will encounters a humpback whale on the opposite side. Willa feels so lonely that she starts to talk to the whale--and the whale talks back! The whale, named...
Author
Series
Greenglass House volume 4
Language
English
Description
Marzana and her best friend, Nialla, are bored. In a city where normal rules don't apply, it seems that adventure should be everywhere, yet nothing exciting ever happens to them. Nothing, that is, until Marzana's parents are recruited to help solve a kidnapping that makes no sense. This could be the excitement Marzana and Nialla have been looking for - if they can crack the case without getting caught meddling. They gather a group of kid detectives...
Author
Publisher
MIT Kids Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"There's only one gift Isabel wants for her sixth birthday: a way to see invisible things. She can hardly think of anything else! Finally, the day of her party arrives. Unwrapping a big box, Isabel finds a surprise inside--a glass prism--and a dazzling world of previously invisible color emerges, lighting up the room around her. What else could be out there, waiting for her eyes to discover? In simple, engaging language, complemented by luminous artwork...
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