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1) Rejoice
Author
Series
Baxter family series. Redemption volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The Baxters is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Roma Downey and Ted McGinley.
A story of unspeakable loss and the overwhelming miracle of new life from Karen Kingsbury, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of “heart-tugging and emotional” (Romantic Times) life-changing fiction, co-authored with Gary Smalley.
A Terrible Tragedy
Brooke and Peter are struggling in their...
A story of unspeakable loss and the overwhelming miracle of new life from Karen Kingsbury, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of “heart-tugging and emotional” (Romantic Times) life-changing fiction, co-authored with Gary Smalley.
A Terrible Tragedy
Brooke and Peter are struggling in their...
Author
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Revelations about a seemingly ordinary mother force her adult children to reexamine their lives in this “absorbing novel about family secrets” (The Dallas Morning News).
Laura Bartone anticipates her annual family reunion in Minnesota with a mixture of excitement and wariness. Yet this year’s gathering will prove to be much more trying than either she or her siblings imagined. As...
Laura Bartone anticipates her annual family reunion in Minnesota with a mixture of excitement and wariness. Yet this year’s gathering will prove to be much more trying than either she or her siblings imagined. As...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair, and left California for the wind-swept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more beloved children and the terrible pain has begun to heal--until the morning when she looks in the backyard for her little boy and girl and finds only one red mitten. She knows...
8) Art
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A rhyming tribute to a budding young artist.
Author
Series
Chester Raccoon (Picture books) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Chester Raccoon is worried that his mother does not have enough love for both him and his new baby brother.
11) Room
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
12) Piglet and Mama
Author
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Piglet cannot find her mother, all of the barnyard animals try to make her feel better, but Piglet wants nothing but Mama.
13) Bunny, my Honey
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Bunny gets lost and can't find his mother, he fears that Mummy and his friends may not be able to find him to take him home.
15) The snow day
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little rabbit enjoys having a day off from kindergarten and spending time with his mother during a snowstorm, but his father's flight home is cancelled until the snow stops falling.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"My Dark Vanessa meets The Queen's Gambit in this new novel of suspense about the bonds of family, the limits of talent, the risks of ambition, and the rewards of revenge. When former piano prodigy Saskia Kreis returns home to Milwaukee after her mother's unexpected death, she expects to inherit the family estate, the Elf House. But with the discovery that her mother's will bequeathed the Elf House to a man that Saskia shares a complicated history...
17) How big is God?
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With help from his mother, a little boy tries to understand the immensity of God.
19) Cutting teeth
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Chandler Baker's Cutting Teeth is a witty, thrilling story of parental love that asks: is there anything a mother won't do for her children? Darby, Mary Beth, and Rhea are on personal quests to reclaim aspects of their identities subsumed by motherhood-their careers, their sex lives, their bodies. Their children, though, disrupt their plans when an unsettling medical condition begins to go around the Little Academy...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ten months after her mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book takes a trip to London. The city was a favorite of her mother's, and as the narrator wanders the streets, she finds herself reflecting on her mother's life and their relationship. Thoughts of the past meld with questions of the future: Back in New England, the family home is now up for sale, its considerable contents already winnowed. The narrator, a writer, recalls all that...
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