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41) Freaky Friday
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A thirteen-year-old girl gains a much more sympathetic understanding of her relationship with her mother when she has to spend a day in her mother's body.
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"In the hills above Port-au-Prince, a young girl named Fallon wants more than anything to carry a large woven basket to the market, just like her Manman. As she watches her mother wrap her hair in a mouchwa, Fallon tries to twist her own braids into a scarf and balance the empty panye atop her head, but realizes it's much harder than she thought"--
43) Me and Mama
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OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
OBD Mother's Day (May) - YOUTH
RLG Caldecott Medal List
Under My Umbrella - ROD Children's
OBD Mother's Day (May) - YOUTH
RLG Caldecott Medal List
Under My Umbrella - ROD Children's
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For a little girl on a rainy day, the best place to be is with Mama.
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Told in alternating voices, years after it began, seventeen-year-old Ivy and her mom Dana's shared story comes down to a reckoning among a daughter, a mother, and the dark forces they never should have messed with.
Ivy's summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events. As the days pass, Ivy grapples...
45) Dear OPL
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Thirteen-year-old Opal starts a blog to satisfy her mother, who thinks she might lose weight by recording all she eats, but instead Opal starts giving advice and discovers that she is much better at giving it than taking it.
46) Infandous
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Seventeen-year-old Sephora, a surfer and artist who loves fairy tales and mythology, struggles with a secret so horrible she cannot speak it aloud, especially not to her beautiful, single mother, although they have always been unusually close.
47) Farmed out
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Fifteen-year-old Maddie dreams of entering an art contest where first prize is an all-expense paid trip to New York City, but when her mom decides to start an organic farming business, Maddie is furious and sure she will never find the inspiration she needs to win the contest.
48) I love my mami!
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Dora the explorer spends a fun day with her mother.
49) Unbecoming
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Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.
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2024 ALA Youth Media Awards (SCPL-YS)
2024 FPPL Disability Pride Children's Selections
Disability Pride (kids and teens)
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2024 FPPL Disability Pride Children's Selections
Disability Pride (kids and teens)
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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.
51) My name is Mina
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Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.
52) Almost paradise
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When twelve-year-old Ruby's mother goes to jail, Ruby finds her Aunt Eleanor, an ornery nun with some dark secrets, who Ruby hopes will help free her mother.
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"Amelia Bedelia's mother loves garage sales so much, she decides to have one herself! But Amelia Bedelia loves her garage and does not want to sell it, so she and her parents decide to call it a yard sale instead. People come from all over the neighborhood to buy Amelia Bedelia and her parents' old things, and one woman even buys the yard!"--
55) Nevers
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"In this magical middle-grade novel, Odette unlocks a mysterious spell."--
56) Taking up space
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Mental Health Awareness Month
Mental Health Awareness Month 2022
Score! Middle Grade Sports Books (SCPL-YS)
Mental Health Awareness Month 2022
Score! Middle Grade Sports Books (SCPL-YS)
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Twelve-year old Sarah is used to being the star on her basketball team, playing with her best friends, but suddenly she finds that her body is changing and she does not understand why she cannot keep up on the court, plus she does not understand why her mother has gotten so weird about food, binging on candy while forgetting about dinner, and she really does not understand why she told Benny, her crush, about her mother--but when Benny offers to teach...
57) Where echoes die
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Sisters Beck and Avery travel to an isolated Arizona town to investigate its connection to their mother's death, but uncover more than they anticipated.
59) Kissing lessons
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Hayden Vargas is a girl with a bad reputation who really just wants to finish high school and get away from her alcoholic mother and the whole boring high school dating scene, so when Emmaline Martin offers to pay her for lessons in attracting and managing boys it seems like a way to pick up some easy money for her post-high school life--but she did not count on the attraction she feels for her client's brother, Nolan, who is not only gorgeous, but...
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