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3) Coraline
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
Author
Series
Birdie volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Five-year-old Birdie loves her mother's shoes, but when she is finally granted permission to wear some for a little while, she discovers that her "barefoot shoes" are best of all.
Author
Publisher
Page Street YA
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Scavenging and selling elf corpses to support her family, seventeen-year-old goth Sevim finds a chance encounter with an elf prince setting her revenge in motion and must enter the magical elven realm where her fate is linked to someone she least expected.
8) Catch a kiss
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Izzie just loves when her Mama blows her kisses to catch. Smooch kisses, zig-zag kisses, and even triple decker kisses! But even though she runs and leaps for it, Izzie misses a kiss! When Mama lets Izzie in on a sweet secret she realizes that her mama's love will always come to find her, no matter what!" --
10) We belong
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through a bedtime story to her daughters, a woman weaves together her immigration story and Pilipino mythology. Includes glossary, songs, and author's note.
Author
Series
Debutantes (Jennifer Lynn Barnes) volume 2
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
While spending a summer at the family lake house, eighteen-year-old Sawyer finally learns the full truth about her complicated family.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Mandy, who dyes her hair black and hates almost everyone, is not like her mother, the tall, sparkly alien superheo Starfire, so when someone from Starfire's past arrives, Mandy must make a choice about who she is and if she should riskeverything to save her mom.
13) Saturday
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When all of their special Saturday plans go awry, Ava and her mother still find a way to appreciate one another and their time together.
14) The killing jar
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she was ten years old Kenna discovered that she had the ability to drain the life from another human being, and ever since she has been afraid to touch anyone--but when she uses that power to save her mother and twin sister from an attacker, her mother finally reveals the secret origin of her power, and she is forced to choose between the Kalyptra and a human life.
15) Radiante
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
Raised in isolation, Tarisai yearns for the closeness she could have as one of the Crown Prince's Council of 11, but her mother, The Lady, has magically compelled Tarisai to kill the Crown Prince.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Language
English
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Description
As high school junior Michie plans for her future and explores a new relationship, she tries to reconcile with some uncomfortable truths about her life which becomes more complicated when she is contacted by her estranged mother.
17) Night owl night
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sova's mother studies owls and their migration patterns, and one night, when Sova is old enough, she accompanies her mother to observe and tag saw-whet owls in the woods"--
19) Apple and Rain
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
When Apple's mother returns after eleven years away, Apple feels whole again. She will have an answer to her burning question - Why did you go? But just like the stormy Christmas eve when she left, her mother's homecoming is bitter sweet. It's only when Apple meets someone more lost than she is, that she begins to see things as they really are.
20) The pocket book
Author
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple text offer an ode to the treasures we find and keep in our pockets and the memories they hold.
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