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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Hank's mother does not come home after a week, he and his toddler sister, Boo, seek out the stranger listed as their emergency contact, even though it means social workers, a new school, and having to answer questions about his mom that he has been trying to keep secret.
2) I, Cosmo
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cosmo would do anything to make his boy happy, but when Max decides they should learn a dance routine to stave off his parents' divorce, will the old dog be up to the challenge?
3) Doll bones
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
5) Hot hand
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In the wake of his parents' separation, ten-year-old Billy seems to have continual conflicts with his father, who is also his basketball coach, but his quiet, younger brother Ben, a piano prodigy, is having even more trouble adjusting, and only Billy seems to notice.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.
Author
Series
Stuntboy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Portico Reeves' secret identity as Stuntboy allows him to use his superpower keep everybody safe, but when his superhero parents start fighting a lot he feels the responsibility to save them.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Sera does not always like being at home, where her dad's anger feels like the strongest thing. School feels better. But when Sera gets into an argument with a friend and finds herself acting like the bully at home, she discovers the strongest thing is not loud or angry at all." -- Provided by publisher.
11) Learning to fall
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Daphne spends a vacation with her estranged father, whom she has not seen in years, and the pair bond over their love of skateboarding.
Author
Series
Poppy volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
14) Switch
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Set in a parallel version of America where time has stopped, the novel tells the story of one teenage girl trying to untangle her toxic family's secrets -- and maybe restart the world's clocks in the process." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
At seventeen, Daisy feels imprisoned by her brother Steven's autism and its effects and her only escape is through her trumpet into the world of jazz, but when her parents decide to send Steven to an institution she is not ready to let him go.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Raised by an unstable father who keeps constantly on the move, Sam Border has long been the voice of his silent younger brother, Riddle, but everything changes when Sam meets Emily Bell and, welcomed by her family, the brothers are faced with normalcy for the first time.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In Kismet, Maine, where a blizzard stranded twelve-year-old Willow's family, she seeks to understand the magic the townspeople have, to cure her little brother's mysterious illness and return her life to normal.
18) All of me
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ari faces what it is to be a man while dealing with a cross-country move, his parents' separation, being bullied for his weight, and belatedly starting bar mitzvah preparations.
19) Leaving Lymon
Author
Series
Finding Langston trilogy volume 02
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Raised by his grandparents, first in Mississippi then in Wisconsin, ten-year-old Lymon moves to Chicago in 1945 to live with the mother he never knew, while yearning for his father.
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