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LaCour, Nina

Summary: When her mother goes on a business trip, a little girl, who loves to sit between Mama and Mommy at the table, misses her a lot and feels empty until Mommy finally comes home, filling the void with love.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy Collection, Call number: JE LACOUR

Weetman, Nova

Summary: When they are selected to read speeches at their elementary school graduation, an unlikely friendship develops between two sixth-graders, one popular and one a misfit, who are facing family problems and health issues.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION WEETMAN

Zarr, Sara.

Summary: Told from their own viewpoints, seventeen-year-old Jill, in grief over the loss of her father, and Mandy, nearly nineteen, are thrown together when Jill's mother agrees to adopt Mandy's unborn child but nothing turns out as they had anticipated.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2011

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION ZARR

Sambury, Liselle

Summary: Told in alternating timelines, seventeen-year-old Daisy and her mother move into her deceased uncle's mansion, only to find horrors waiting inside, and ten years later, Brittney investigates the mystery behind the Miracle Mansion that turned her mother's life around.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION SAMBURY

Ormsbee, Kathryn

Summary: Cline Alden's grandmother says that music is in the family's blood, but Cline's mother is dead-set against her daughter's dreams of becoming a country music singer; Cline is determined to find the money to attend a Young Singer-Songwriter Workshop in Lexington (not too far from her Paris, Kentucky home), so now she has a lot on her mind--she is hiding things from her mother, she is losing her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION ORMSBEE

Hosford, Kate

Summary: In rhyming text, a mother and daughter spend a day together, enjoying the beauty of nature.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy Collection, Call number: JE HOSFORD

White, Dianne

Summary: A girl and her mother wander through the city looking for the many things to be grateful for, and enjoying being present and aware in the moment.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy Collection, Call number: JE WHITE

Hesse, Karen

Summary: A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: WB JE HESSE

Harper, Charise Mericle.

Summary: Ashley's summer is filled with babysitting, letters to her best friend at camp, and a wish jar filled with secret revelations that help her understand her mother in a whole new way.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer & Bray 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION HARPER

Pixley, Marcella Fleischman

Summary: It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION PIXLEY

Gaiman, Neil.

Summary: Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2002

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Pearson, Luke

Summary: This special treasury edition contains the first two volumes of Hilda's adventures -- Hilda and the Troll and Hilda and the Midnight Giant -- for you to read over and over again, as well as bonus material from series creator, Luke Pearson.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books, an imprint of Nobrow Ltd. 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J GRAPHIC PEARSON

Méndez, Jasminne

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FICTION MAENDEZ

Sánchez, Erika L.

Summary: Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga's role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION SANCHEZ

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION SÁNCHEZ

Carroll, Emma

Summary: While selling matches in Victorian London to keep her ailing mother safe from the factory’s toxins, Bridie magically sees visions of a more hopeful future and, realizing she has the power to change her own fortune, urges the ill-treated factory workers to strike out and achieve something remarkable.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FICTION CARROLL

Obuobi, Laura.

Summary: "When the Universe decides to create a child, she draws from the earth--rich, dark, and full of everything that gives life, including eyes like black star sapphires and full lips to speak the truth. With help from the Sun and the Moon, they create a child of the Universe: beautiful, powerful, and boundless with the brilliance of Black Gold"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy Collection, Call number: JE OBUOBI

Power, Rory

Summary: "Margot doesn't know anything about her family, beyond her quiet life with her mother. But she wants more and when she finds a clue that leads her to a town called Phalene, she leaves to investigate. Only Phalene and her family history are full of secrets, some that may prove more dangerous and deadly than Margot ever could have bargained for"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION POWER

Nyoko, Mel

Summary: A Black mother replaces common misconceptions with empowering statements and lets her daughter know there are no limits to what she can achieve.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy Collection, Call number: JE NYOKO

Benway, Robin

Summary: Attending the royal debut party, their one chance to impress the Prince and live up to their cruel and bitter mother's expectations, sisters Drizella and Anastasia get a taste of freedom, pitting them against a mother whose greatest power lies in manipulation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION BENWAY

Johnson, Daisy May

Summary: When her mother, the world's leading expert on ducks, goes missing, Calla North must outwit the headmistress at her new boarding school to find her mom, with the help of a few new friends and a motley crew of resourceful nuns.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: GodwinBooks, Henry Holt and Company 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION JOHNSON

Hinrichs, Alexandra S. D.

Summary: "A girl and her mom take a walk and fill their pockets along the way"

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron + Company 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy Collection, Call number: JE HINRICHS

Carey, Janet Lee.

Summary: In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the dragon's claw she was born with that reflects only one of her mother's dark secrets.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION CAREY

Picoult, Jodi

Summary: Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse/Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2012

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION PICOULT

Thiesing, Lisa.

Summary: A mother explains how much her daughter is like she was as a little girl.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 1998

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1 available in Juvenile Easy Collection, Call number: JE THIESING

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