Sellet, Amanda
Summary: "When a famed photojournalist shows up to document her family's 'Little Women Live!' attraction, Jo, who is rebelling against living in the shadow of her literary namesake, discovers that real life is much more complicated and messier than fiction"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SELValentino, Serena
Summary: Locked away in Hell Hall after sharing her plan to make a fur coat out of Dalmatian puppies, Cruella De Vil tells her side of the story--a tale of friendship, love and loss, mothers and daughters...and revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC VALFipps, Lisa
Summary: Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FIPParish, Herman
Summary: "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!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PARHanlon, Abby
Summary: Dory's separation anxiety from her mother turns into a ghostly, goofy escapade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: "A little girl spends a fun day with Mom going to the park, the art fair, the farmers market, and ending the day by making a yummy soup"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CRAMcCullough, Joy
Summary: Thirteen-year-old former elite gymnast Eden is feeling lost after a career-ending injury, but when she meets new friends who open her eyes to period poverty, the struggle that low-income people have trying to afford menstrual products, she becomes an advocate for fair treatment and rediscovers her passion and drive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCCFrederick, Heather Vogel.
Summary: As the Mother-Daughter Book Club reads Jane Eyre, the girls and some of their mothers are involved in some serious competitions, Becca finds romance when the Wyoming pen pals come for a visit, and a wedding brings the British Berkeley brothers and even Stinkerbelle to Concord.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FREAlbert, Melissa
Summary: 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 with eerie offerings, corroded memories, and a secret she's always known: that there's more to her mother than meets the eye. Back then, the summer Dana...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALBDownham, Jenny
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DOWDevlin, Calla
Summary: "The three Babcock sisters must travel to a Mexican clinic across the border so their mother, ill with leukemia, can receive alternative treatments. The sisters' world is about to shatter under the weight of an incomprehensible betrayal. . . an illness far more insidious than cancer that poisons their home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Devlin 2016Suk, Sarah
Summary: Perfect for fans of They Both Die at the End and You've Reached Sam, this gripping, atmospheric YA novel follows a teen with a mysterious condition that transports her to the past when she smells certain scents linked to specific memories. Seventeen-year-old Aimee Roh has Sensory Time Warp Syndrome, a rare condition that causes her to time travel to a moment in her life when she smells...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SUKRogers, Shannon C. F.
Summary: Marisol and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no beginning and no end. When her mother dies suddenly, Marisol is left with no one to fight against, haunted by all the things that she both said and didn't say. When Marisol sleeps with her best friend's boyfriend--- and then punches said best friend in the face--- she is left alone with nothing but a burning anger. As a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROGLambert, Mary E.
Summary: Seventh-grader Annabelle's mother is a hoarder, and their whole house is full of canned goods, broken toys, fabric, and old newspapers--but when a pile of newspapers (organized by weather reports) falls on Annabelle's younger sister Leslie and their mother is more concerned about the newspapers, it sets off a chain of events that brings their fix-it-all grandmother in and Annabelle realizes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAMBarnes, Jennifer (Jennifer Lynn)
Summary: While spending a summer at the family lake house, eighteen-year-old Sawyer finally learns the full truth about her complicated family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Freeform Books 2019
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Summary: From the moment she met Samantha, star of the school basketball team, on her first day at Daniel Boone Middle School, Allison Drake felt she had found a friend, something she needs badly since her brother died and her father left--but as their friendshipgrows it begins to evolve into a deeper emotion, and in North Carolina in 1977, it is not easy to discover that you might be gay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HITGoo, Maurene
Summary: "Priscilla is first-generation Korean American, a former high school cheerleader who expects Sam to want the same all- American nightmare. Meanwhile, Sam is a girl of the times who has no energy for clichéd high school aspirations. After a huge blowup, Sam is desperate to get away from Priscilla, but instead, finds herself thrown back. Way back. To her shock, Sam lands in the '90s . . ....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zando Young Readers 2023
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Summary: "Part mystery, part coming-of-age story, and part tragedy, Scarlet In Blue, by acclaimed novelist Jennifer Murphy, traces the lives of a mother and daughter who, because of their fugitive lifestyle and the pain that overshadows it, share a dependence and a love so strong neither can imagine life without the other. Fifteen-year-old Blue Lake is a budding pianist who resents her mother Scarlet's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MurphyAirgood, Ellen
Summary: When eleven-year-old Ivy Blake leaves the nice farm family where she has been living in upstate New York and moves back in with her mother she is finally forced to face up to the fact that her alcoholic, dysfunctional parent will never be able to provide her with a stable home--and if she wants to achieve her dreams she is going to have to take charge of her own future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION AIRFairbairn, Nathan
Summary: Best friends Gabby, Priya, and Mindy's dog business, PAWS, is booming, but Mindy between her mom starting to date and a new classmate wanting to join PAWS, Mindy is having a hard time sharing her feeling with her friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2022
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Summary: Attending the royal debut party, their one chance to impress the Prince and live up to their cruel and bitter mother's expectations, sisters Drizella and Anastasia get a taste of freedom, pitting them against a mother whose greatest power lies in manipulation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BENSumner, Jamie
Summary: When her mother is injured in a car accident, twelve-year-old Franny tries to keep their fragile world intact by taking over her mom's cleaning jobs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUMSriram, Meera
Summary: A mother shares family memories and stories with her daughter as she applies henna to the young girl's hands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SRICabrera, Cozbi A.
Summary: Me & Mama is a 2020 picture book written and illustrated by Cozbi A. Cabrera and published by Simon & Schuster under the Denene Millner Books imprint. The book won a 2021 Caldecott Honor. The book celebrates the relationship between a mother and her daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021