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The last thing Tasha wants is to move from her home in Atlanta to Middle-of-Nowhere, Georgia. But when her mother dies and Tasha is taken in by her father--a man she's never met, who took off when she was just a baby--she doesn't have much of a choice. The trailer park where Tasha's father and grandmother live seems like a miserable place to spend a summer, even before one of her neighbors mysteriously passes away. That's when she meets a girl named...
2) Eggs
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Mourning the loss of his mother, nine-year-old David forms an unlikely friendship with independent, quirky thirteen-year-old Primrose, as the two help each other deal with what is missing in their lives.
3) Stay dead
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2024.
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Entrusted with a key by her dying mother, sixteen-year-old Milan pretends she perished along with her mother as she navigates freezing conditions, outsmarts assassins, and unravels a deadly conspiracy to save herself and others.
5) Mixed up
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Twelve-year-olds Reef and Theo have a mutual problem: their memories are getting mixed up, and that means that Reef is losing his memory of his mother, recently dead of COVID, which terrifies him--but for Theo his new memories are helping him deal with his domineering father.
Reef and Theo don't know what's happening to them. They'll be going about their days and then suddenly they'll have these strange flashes of memory -- but the memories don't...
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2024.
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After her mother's death, thirteen-year-old Opal moves to her uncle's farm where she befriends a group of orphaned, music-loving bats, and summons the courage to protect them from a mining company as she attempts to find them a new home.
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"After Kitty's mother dies on an inappropriately sunny Tuesday, all Kitty wants is for her life to go back to "normal"--whatever that will mean without her mum. Instead, her dad announces that he, Kitty, and her sister are moving from their home in London to New York City, and Kitty will need to say goodbye to the places and people that help keep her mother's memory alive. New York is every bit as big and bustling as Kitty's heard, and as she adjusts...
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2017.
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Can you fall in love with someone you've never met? Juliet is drwoning in grief after her mother's death. Declan is trying to escape the demons of his past. Writing letters ot her mother is the only way Juliet can cope with her loss, but when Declan finds one of her letters and writes back, it sparks an anonymous correspondence. Such an immediate and intense connection with a perfect stranger feels strange and wonderful, and soon they are baring their...
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[2015]
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Thirteen-year-old brilliant but socially-challenged Stewart and mean-girl Ashley must find common ground when, two years after Stewart's mother died, his father moves in with his new girlfriend--Ashley's mother, whose gay ex-husband lives in their guest house.
11) Drawn onward
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[2024]
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"In this . . . emotional palindrome picture book . . . , a young boy grieving the loss of his mother embarks on a . . . fantastical adventure that illuminates what remains when our loved ones are gone"--Provided by publisher.
12) Bubble trouble
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2023.
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Books By And About Asian Americans And Pacific Islanders
New Children's Books August 2023
Summer Reading Challenge 2024: Read a Yummy Book
New Children's Books August 2023
Summer Reading Challenge 2024: Read a Yummy Book
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Chloe loves musicals and is desperate to go on the class trip to Broadway, but since her mother died money has been tight, and her father's zany inventions are not selling--so with the help of her best friend Sabrina Chloe comes up with a way to make some money by making and selling boba tea.
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