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142) Needle and thread
Author
Series
Main Street (Ann M. Martin) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Description
Flora worries about her first Thanksgiving without her parents, while Ruby worries about getting a part in the school musical, and their new friends, Olivia and Nikki, are adjusting to big changes in their families.
Flora and Ruby are adjusting to the new town with their grandmother since their parents died and with some new friends they will survive one stitch at a time.
143) Blue nights
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Shares the author's frank observations about her daughter as well as her own thoughts and fears about having children and growing old, in a personal account that discusses her daughter's wedding and her feelings of failure as a parent.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Siete minutos después de la medianoche, Conor despierta y se encuentra un monstruo en la ventana. Pero no es el monstruo que él esperaba, el de la pesadilla que tiene casi todas las noches desde que su madre empezó el arduo e incansable tratamiento. No, este monstruo es algo diferente, antiguo... Y quiere lo más peligroso de todo: la verdad. Maliciosa, divertida y conmovedora, Un monstruo viene a verme nos habla de nuestra dificultad para aceptar...
145) The memory police
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, things are disappearing. First, animals and flowers. Then objects--ribbons, bells, photographs. Then, body parts. Most of the island's inhabitants fail to notice these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the mysterious 'memory police,' who are committed to ensuring that the disappeared remain forgotten. When a young novelist realizes that more than her...
146) Beginners welcome
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Starting to emerge from her shell in the months after devastating losses, Annie Lee takes piano lessons from an elderly mall pianist before his disappearance forces her to break a promise to a new friend.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. She is the secret teacher hiding in plain sight, helping us to discover what matters most. Life and death are a package deal. They cannot be pulled apart and we cannot truly live unless we are aware of death. The Five Invitations is an exhilarating meditation on the meaning of life and how maintaining an ever-present consciousness...
148) The perfect star
Author
Series
The perfect score volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Told from different viewpoints, five eighth-graders who have challenges at home and at school also experience a sad loss as a group and welcome a new addition to their extended family"--
149) Miracle
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Amie struggles to find herself through friendship and music in the wake of her father's death.
151) My life in dioramas
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old works through her feelings about moving from the only home she's ever known by creating dioramas of each room."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
It is 1987, and only one person has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus -- her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June's world is turned upside down. But Finn's death brings a surprise acquaintance...
153) Bye-bye time
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Simply text and pictures teach children that when you say goodbye it's only for a little while.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nashquitten, MA, is a decaying coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town's blue-collar industries for generations. So, when a young woman dies at a house party, the circumstances around her death suspiciously unclear, the tight-knit community of Nashquitten is shaken. As a mother grieves her daughter, a teacher her student, a best friend her confidante, the events around this tragedy become a lightning...
155) The Joy Luck Club
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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Description
Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice...
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