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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Arizona. It's been three years since the ICE raids, since Artemisia (Sia) Martinez's mother disappeared. Sia knows her mom must be dead, but she drives into the desert to light candles to guide her mom home. One night a blue-lit spacecraft crashes in front of Sia's car-- and it's carrying her mom, who is very much alive. Now she needs to save her mom from the armed, quite-possibly-alien soldiers. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
236 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"Fred and her math-teacher mom are always on the move, and Fred is getting sick of it. She's about to have yet another birthday in a new place without friends. On the eve of turning thirteen, Fred sees something strange in the living room: her mother, dressed for a party, standing in front of an enormous paper lantern--which she steps into and disappears. Fred follows her and finds herself in the Land of Impossibility--a loopily illogical place where...
63) My mom
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Description
A child describes the many wonderful things about "my mom," who can make anything grow, roar like a lion, and be as comfy as an armchair. The perfect gift for Mother's Day Following up on his bestseller My Dad, the inimitable Anthony Browne returns to celebrate the every-mom. In this paean to motherhood, we first meet Mom over a cup of coffee, clad in a floral robe. The robe is ever present as her child describes her wondrous abilities and traits:...
64) Girl in pieces
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she's already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don't have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie's heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
193 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
Grace's excitement to accompany her "fun" mom on delivery to Titan quickly turns to frustration when her mom is too preoccupied with her mission to spend time with Grace, yet when their ship stops working on their return home it is up to Grace to save the day.
Author
Series
Monstruos volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"The twelve-year-old daughter of La Llorona vows to free her mother and reverse the curses that have plagued the magical town of Tres Leches"--
When Felice learns that she's the daughter of La Llorona, she catches a ride to the magical town of Tres Leches, where her mother is said to be haunting the river. Growing up with her uncle Clem in Corpus Christi, Felice knew that she had been rescued from drowning--it's where her intense fear of water comes...
67) If only
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Description
At sixteen Bridget is pregnant--and her boyfriend has dumped her for another girl. She's trying to envision a future for her baby. But as she sifts through the many paths and the many people who want to parent her child, she can't help but feel that there is no right decision. Fifteen years later: Ivy knows that she is now the same age Bridget was when she placed Ivy for adoption. She knows that Bridget was the one who named her. When Ivy goes in...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Twelve-year-old Vivian Van Tassel is angry: angry about her mom's mysterious and sudden death; at her dad for uprooting their lives in Chicago to move to the sleepy, creepy town of Midnight Lake; at the bullies who seem to be drawn to her no matter how much she tries to keep her head down...but mostly angry at herself for causing bad things to happen wherever she goes. When a class assignment at her new school prompts Vivian to research the history...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Eleven-year-old April Jackson loves playing the drums, almost as much as she loves her best friend, Zee, a violin prodigy. They both dream of becoming professional musicians one day. When Zee starts attending a new school that will nurture his talent, April decides it's time for her to pursue her dreams, too, and finally take drum lessons. She knows she isn't very good to start, but with Zee's support, she also knows someday she can be just as good...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 22 cm
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"Una de las primeras cosas que le preguntas a alguien es d̤nde vive. El lugar del que provenimos deja su huella en nosotros, y si sabes leer las sęales de un lugar, sabes un poco m̀s de una persona.| Desde que Emoni Santiago se qued̤ embarazada durante el segundo ąo de instituto, su vida se ha reducido a tomar decisiones dif̕ciles y hacer lo mejor posible para su hija y para su abuela. Pero el ͠nico lugar en el que puede olvidarse de todo...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
181 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes wakes on her birthday to discover that her mother has disappeared from the family's country manor, leaving only a collection of flowers and a coded message book. With Sherlock and Mycroft determined to ship her off to a boarding school, Enola escapes, displaying a cleverness that even impresses the elder Holmes. But nothing prepares her for what lies ahead.
72) Ruptured
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Phoebe navigates fear, grief, and hope for recovery about when her mother has a ruptured brain aneurysm while their family is on vacation, and right after her mother shares that she's planning to leave Phoebe's father"--
73) The storyteller
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
206 pages ; 20 cm
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.
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