Hobson, Brandon
Summary: Ziggy's mother disappeared ten years ago, one of the many Native women who have mysteriously gone missing, and Ziggy believes a secret cave may hold the key--so with his sister, Moon, and friends Alice and Corso, he sets out to find the cave and solve the mystery of his family's origins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: JFIC HOBCurtis, Jamie Lee
Summary: A hard-working mother's extraordinary accomplishments are listed by her devoted child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CURWalstead, Alice
Summary: The How to Catch Kids try to trap the Mamasaurus, a one-of-a-kind creature whose love, kindness, and awesomeness have no limits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Wonderland 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WALKilroy, Claire
Summary: "In her first novel for over a decade, Claire Kilroy takes readers deep into the early days of motherhood. Exploring the clash of fierce love for a new life with a seismic change in identity, Kilroy vividly explores the raw, tumultuous emotions of a new mother, as the narrator, Soldier's, marriage strains and she struggles with questions of equality, autonomy and creativity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEBrezenoff, Steven
Summary: A shipment of dinosaur bones meant for a new exhibit at the Capitol City Natural History Museum has disappeared, and so have the five paleontologists who were working late at the museum, including Wilson Kipper's mother--so Wilson and his museum friends set out to solve the mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BREZiegler, Jennifer
Summary: William Wyatt Orser's life is turned upside down after his mother has a stroke, but the socially awkward, word-loving twelve-year-old finds glimmers of hope when he discovers friends who share his love of wordplay and books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ZIEWeiner, Jennifer.
Summary: The plans of four women--including a college student egg donor, a working-class surrogate mother, a wealthy woman, and her stepdaughter--are thrown into turmoil when the wealthy woman's husband suddenly dies and names the stepdaughter the unborn baby's guardian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Weiner 2011López, Diana
Summary: "The twelve-year-old daughter of La Llorona vows to free her mother and reverse the curses that have plagued the magical town of Tres Leches"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOPWeiner, Jennifer.
Summary: The plans of four women--including a college student egg donor, a working-class surrogate mother, a wealthy woman, and her stepdaughter--are thrown into turmoil when the wealthy woman's husband suddenly dies and names the stepdaughter the unborn baby's guardian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WEIWeiner, Jennifer.
Summary: 43-year-old India Bishop turns to technology for the newborn she wants. After the union of her husband's sperm and a Princeton senior's "pedigree" egg is implanted into the womb of a working-class surrogate, a new life begins to grow. But matters are complicated when India's husband dies, making his 23-year-old daughter the legal guardian of the unborn child. Now four diverse women must somehow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WEIBlasco, Serena
Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes wakes on her birthday to discover that her mother has disappeared from the family's country manor, leaving only a collection of flowers and a coded message book. With Sherlock and Mycroft determined to ship her off to a boarding school, Enola escapes, displaying a cleverness that even impresses the elder Holmes. But nothing prepares her for what lies ahead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Series BlascoJames-Duncan, Monique
Summary: Following a day in the life of two rambunctious children and their mom, this warm, revealing picture book builds a bridge of empathy between parent and child and celebrates the value of "Mommy Time."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE JAMParr, Todd
Summary: With his trademark childlike art, Todd Parr celebrates all different kinds of mothers. Whether mommies work far away or at home, cook or order pizza, they are all lots of fun and filled with love. --Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD PARZimmermann, Laura
Summary: Stuck at the lake in the middle of a Wisconsin winter, Drew and her younger sister and brother struggle to stay together after their manipulative, con artist mother dies, which they can only do if they can keep her death a secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZIMSnyder, Laurel
Summary: It is Mom's birthday, and Charlie and Mouse and their Dad want everything to be perfect--so when the cake gets burnt the boys have to come up with a new plan, pronto.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2019
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Summary: Show Mom just how much she means with this sweet and special Berenstain Bears book. With fun, colorful illustrations and simple words of wisdom, this charming keepsake is a great way to show parents, grandparents, soon-to-be mothers, aunts, friends, or whomever you call "Mom" just how much you care.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: "In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILOnomé, Louisa
Summary: Joy Okafor is overwhelmed. Recently divorced, a life coach whose phone won't stop ringing, and ever the dutiful Nigerian daughter, Joy has planned every aspect of her mother's seventieth birthday weekend on her own. As the Okafors slowly begin to arrive, Mama Mary goes to take a nap. But when the grandkids go to wake her, they find that she isn't sleeping after all. Refusing to believe that her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC ONOBeck, Haylen
Summary: "Libby needs a break. Three years ago her husband split, leaving her to raise their infant son Ethan alone as she struggled to launch her writing career. Now for the first time in years, things are looking up. She's just sold her first novel, and she and Ethan are going on a much-needed vacation. Everything seems to be going their way, so why can't she stop looking over her shoulder or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BECUmrigar, Thrity N.
Summary: "Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bombay to adopt a baby--and to see his elderly mother for the first time in several years. Discovering that she is in the hospital, has stopped talking, and seems to have given up on life, he is struck with guilt for not realizing just how sick she has become. His...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UMRWilliams-Garcia, Rita.
Summary: In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WILWilkerson, Charmaine
Summary: "In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC WILBaskin, Nora Raleigh.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Gabby feels that she needs a mother to help her grow into a woman, so when things between her father and his latest girlfriend do not work out, Gabby set off for the last place she remembers seeing her own mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BASPatricelli, Leslie
Summary: Every day is Mother's Day as the inimitable Baby sings Mommy's praises in a board book full of humor and heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021