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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
After the death of her parents, Lotties loses her colorful magic and is sent to the gray wasteland to live with her uncle, but the discovery of a locked-up garden, a wise cardinal, and a hidden boy gives Lottie a second chance at bringing color back into her life.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Oscar Dunleavy, a teenager who used to make incredible apple tarts, has gone missing and everyone thinks he is dead, but Oscar's best friend Meg and his little brother Stevie, form a band as they try to figure out what happened to him.
Author
Publisher
Rainbow of Hope Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
"This is a tale about a beloved soul who comes to earth, discovers itself in a dark place, and starts on a journey to find the light. Feeling so alone, the soul searches, struggles, and longingly asks, "Where is the Light?" Step by step, with many surprises along the way, at long last the soul finds "The Rainbow of Hope", the essence of Love and Light."--Amazon.com.
7) Heart stones
Author
Publisher
McSea Books
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
Sailors are lost at sea after a storm. When heart shaped stones begin to wash up on the shore followed by strange magical events in town, young Gale and Celia try to solve the mystery and heal a broken community.
9) Guttersnipe
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In Canada early in the twentieth century, Ben, the youngest in a family of Jewish immigrants struggling to make ends meet, decides to help out but when a hat maker gives him a chance, disaster strikes and Ben nearly loses hope.
Author
Publisher
Red Comet Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A wordless picture book portrayal of war seen through the eyes of a young girl who finds hope in the symbolism of yellow butterflies against the background of a pure blue sky. Using the colors of his national flag, Oleksandr Shatokhin has created a deeply emotional response to the conflict in Ukraine and provided a narrative full of powerful visual metaphors for readers to consider as they travel from the devastating effects of war to a place of...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raymond Jaffe feels like he doesn't belong. Not with his mother's new family. Not as a weekend guest with his father and his father's wife. Not at school, where he's an outcast. After his best friend moves away, Raymond has only two real connections: to the feral cat he's tamed and to a blind, 92-year-old woman in his building who's introduced herself with a curious question: Have you seen Luis Velez? Mildred Gutermann, a German Jew who narrowly escaped...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in Pakistan, these award-winning stories follow people living on the brink of abandonment?in their personal relationships and their place in the world. A mother, coping with the sudden death of her son, uncovers long-buried secrets in his absence. An anguished girl grabs a chance for a life beyond the orphanage walls where she lives, and discovers the price of freedom. A young couple tries to keep their fraught relationship intact as a heat wave...
14) The past is red
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Catherynne M. Valente, the bestselling and award-winning creator of Space Opera and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland returns with The Past is Red, the enchanting, dark, funny, angry story of a girl who made two terrible mistakes: she told the truthand she dared to love the world. The future is blue. Endless blue...except for a few small places that float across the hot, drowned world left behind by long-gone fossil fuel-guzzlers. One of those...
Author
Language
English
Description
"It's one thing to say you can find what people need--it's another to actually do it. It's 1932 and Sullivan Harris is on the run. An occasionally successful dowser, he promised the people of Kline, West Virginia, that he would find them water. But when wells turned up dry, he disappeared with their cash just a step or two ahead of Jeremiah Weber, who was elected to run him down.Postmistress Gainey Floyd is suspicious of Sulley's abilities when he...
Author
Publisher
Cuento de Luz
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
"¿Cómo es un faro de las almas? Un faro de las almas es la luz que guiará a Leo y a su abuelo a través de los mares más lejanos para encontrarse con aquellos que esperan, cada noche, una palabra de cariño para irse a dormir con una sonrisa en los labios. El faro de las almas es una tierna historia que nos habla no solo de la relación entre los abuelos y los nietos, sino sobre todo entre personas desconocidas que siempre buscan algo en común:...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
In the unique landscape of the Camargue in the South of France during WW2, a young autistic boy lives on his parents' farm among the salt flats and the flamingos that live there. There are lots of things he doesn't understand, but he does know how to heal animals. He loves routine and music too; every week he goes to market with his mother, to ride his special horse on the town carousel. But then the Germans come, with their guns, and take the town....
18) Clock dance
Author
Language
English
Description
Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother's sudden disappearance. In 1977, she is a college coed considering a marriage proposal. In 1997, she is a young widow trying to piece her life back together. And in 2017, she yearns to be a grandmother but isn't sure she ever will be. Then, one day, Willa receives a startling phone call from a stranger. Without fully understanding...
20) Bigger than me
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Initially bewildered children learn how to navigate big concepts like democracy, pandemic, and understand things like solidarity"--
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