Blake, Ashley Herring
Summary: For two years, twelve-year-old Hazel has coped with her Mum's accidental death by overprotecting her sister and Mama, but when Mama reconnects with her first love, roles begin to shift.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLARogers, 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 ROGHatch, Leanne
Summary: As Cole grows older, his baby blanket still means a lot to him until it unravels, and then he is ready to give it up--but is his mother?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books / Holiday House 2021
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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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Summary: Piano lessons are a part of growing up for many children. In this fun story, readers follow a relatable narrator as she practices piano and shares her family's history with the instrument. Colorful illustrations and accessible language encourage beginning readers to make connections with the text. Younger listeners will enjoy following along, too. Children of all ages will be inspired to try...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH ELLZiegler, 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 ZIEPadilla, Francesca
Summary: After the ice cream stand where she works is robbed, seventeen-year-old Minerva Gutiérrez plans to get revenge on her predatory boss while navigating grief, anger, and dreams of escape from her dead-end hometown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Teen, an imprint of Soho Press, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PADLudwig, Trudy
Summary: A Japanese family mourns the loss of a wife and mother by making origami cranes and using the Wind Telephone to communicate their feelings of loss and yearning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LUDWeetman, Nova
Summary: When they are selected to read speeches at their elementary school graduation, an unlikely friendship develops between two sixth-graders, one popular and one a misfit, who are facing family problems and health issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WEELewis, Kayvion
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Ross Quest, a master thief, enters the Thieves' Gambit, a competition consisting of dangerous, international heists, in order to save her mother's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC LEWCrawford, Rae
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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2 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CRAMangle, Bethany
Summary: When Cara accidentally posts a rant about her father and his new wife online, it goes viral-- and catches the attention of the TV producers behind a new reality dating show for single parent families. Now Cara and her mother have been whisked away to sunny Key West where they're asked to narrow a field of suitors and their kids down to one winning pair. It's outside Cara's comfort zone, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MANSantamaria, Sendy
Summary: Yenebi, her sister Melanie, and mom drive to school every morning across the US-Mexico border.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SANSambury, Liselle
Summary: Told in alternating timelines, seventeen-year-old Daisy and her mother move into her deceased uncle's mansion, only to find horrors waiting inside, and ten years later, Brittney investigates the mystery behind the Miracle Mansion that turned her mother's life around.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAMHowe, James
Summary: Young Milo and his mother go for the same walk around their neighborhood every morning, but with Milo's imagination, there are always new things to see, old things to see in new ways, and the possibilities of what they will see tomorrow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOWPodos, Rebecca
Summary: On her seventeenth birthday, Hannah Williams begins exhibiting impossible, temporary mutations--gills one day and horns the next--that are the consequences of a desperate bargain her mother made with a sheyd decades ago, and to break the family curse, Hannah and her brother track down their mother's estranged family and discover a legacy that traces back to the Golem of Prague.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PODGoo, 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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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOOMann, J. Albert
Summary: In the aftermath of major surgery, sixteen-year-old Eve struggles with pain, grief, and guilt while becoming increasingly dependent on pain medication, revisiting memories of her best friend, and exploring a potential romance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MANTison, Ari
Summary: When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023