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Pub. Date
[2015]
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xx, 267 pages ; 21 cm
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"95 million adults have a step relationship, according to a 2011 report. That's 95 million unexpected experiences; 95 million unique perspectives; 95 million laughs, 95 million tears, and 95 million new families. Blended explores stepfamilies from the inside out through the perspectives of thirty writers who know what it's like first hand. Sometimes funny, often poignant, and always deeply personal, the stories in Blended capture the essence of stepfamilies...
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Sometimes flying means keeping your feet on the ground... Born in a dismal room in a pet store, Alastair the African grey parrot dreams of escape to bluer skies. He'd like nothing more than to fly away to a palm tree with his beloved sister, Aggie. But when Aggie is purchased by twelve-year-old Fritz, and Alastair is adopted by elderly dance-enthusiast and pie-baker Albertina Plopky, the future looks ready to crash-land. In-between anxiously plucking...
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Follow the journey of a loving uncle and nephew, through their day to day fun activities, such as swimming and playing together in the park. This little boy is often compared to his uncle because they look the same, but he wants his own identity. It's not always easy being in someone else's shadow, with people expecting you to behave the same and make similar choices. This fun, rhyming children's book is aimed at anyone who has been compared to their...
5) Fewer Toys, More Time Live a Minimalist Life as a Family Minimalism, Decluttering & Simplifying Wi
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"I have my kids back! Not all the time, but I know it's a process." Wilona Ruell
"I used to be kind of a minimalist but lost track over time. Fewer Toys, More Time has been a fantastic refresher to me." Leslie P. Durand
A single person will not have a lot of problems keeping things to the bare minimum. Having a family is a different case altogether.
But this book will show you that it is possible to take minimalism to the family. It will help you...
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Chicken Squad volume 4
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It was supposed to be a nice chicken-family vacation to a farm. But Sugar is certain that she is being watched, and when Poppy's beloved shoe (the shoe that keeps her safe and snug) goes missing, Sugar is sure that this shadow is the culprit. How can the Chicken Squad tackle a shadow-- without ruining the family reunion?
7) Free verse
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"After her brother dies in a fire, Sasha Harless has no one left and nowhere to turn, but soon discovers family she didn't know she had, and begins to heal through poetry"--
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I funny volume 3
Pub. Date
2015
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In the third episode of James Patterson's bestselling series, Jamie Grimm is one step closer to becoming the best kid comic in the world, but now he's facing his biggest challenge yet. Jamie Grimm is back and better than ever. After scoring big on national TV in the semifinals contest, everyone back home is jumping on the Jamie Grimm bandwagon, and all the attention might be going to his head. Not only are his friendships starting...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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xvii, 302 pages ; 24 cm
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"A close-up examination and exploration, How We Live Now challenges our old concepts of what it means to be a family and have a home, opening the door to the many diverse and thriving experiments of living in twenty-first century America. Across America and around the world, in cities and suburbs and small towns, people from all walks of life are redefining our "lifespaces"--the way we live and who we live with. The traditional nuclear family in their...
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"The long-awaited memoir from the beloved author of the bestselling Tales of the City series. 'Sooner or later, no matter where in the world we live, we have to venture beyond our biological family to find our logical one, the one that actually makes sense for us. We have to, if we are to live without squandering our lives.'--from Logical Family. Born in the mid-twentieth century and raised in the heart of conservative North Carolina, Armistead Maupin...
13) Niblet & Ralph
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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Two cats that look alike live in the same building and, when they sneak out to visit one another, worry their young owners by their changed behavior.
14) Home at last
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[2016]
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"After Lester is adopted from his foster home by Daddy Albert and Daddy Rich, he can't fall asleep in his new bed. What will it take to make Lester feel home at last?"--
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Magic misfits volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
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"Six young magicians and illusionists team up to save their small town from a crooked carnival owner and his goons"--
16) Felix Yz
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“If it wasn’t for the fused-with-Zyx thing, I suppose I would just be normal—whatever that means.”
When Felix Yz was three years old, a hyperintelligent fourth-dimensional being became fused inside him after one of his father’s science experiments went terribly wrong. The creature is friendly, but Felix—now thirteen—won’t be able to grow to adulthood while they’re still melded...
When Felix Yz was three years old, a hyperintelligent fourth-dimensional being became fused inside him after one of his father’s science experiments went terribly wrong. The creature is friendly, but Felix—now thirteen—won’t be able to grow to adulthood while they’re still melded...
17) We are family
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Pub. Date
2017.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
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Through illness and health, in celebration and disappointment, families stick together. Some families are made up of many people, and some are much smaller. Sometimes family members look like each other, and sometimes they don't! But even though every family is different, the love is all the same.
19) So done
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2018.
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"When best friends Metai and Jamila are reunited after a summer apart, their friendship threatens to combust from the pressure of secrets, middle school, and looming auditions for a potentially life-changing new talented-and-gifted program. Jamila Phillips and Tai Johnson have been inseparable since they were toddlers, having grown up across the street from each other in Pirates Cove, a low-income housing project. As summer comes to an end, Tai can't...
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Ballet Cat volume 3
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Ballet Cat and her cousin, Goat, try to outdo one another while putting on show for their grandmother.
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