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Acosta, Alicia

Summary: Ben liked painting his nails, until some of the kids at school started teasing him. When Dad realized why Ben was sad, he decided to paint his nails too.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: nubeOCHO 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ACO

Fleming, Meg

Summary: "A rhyming picture book about the loving parent-child relationship in animal and human families"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC FLE

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FLE

Stutzman, Jonathan

Summary: A parent's ode to everything their child is, and will be, capable of doing as they grow. Tonight, each small hand fits inside their parent's hand. But soon, this hand will grow-- to dig deep in the dirt, make masterpieces and mistakes, and tell stories only it can tell. With text that captures the potential in every child and glowing art that exudes warmth, this book braids three children's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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Delahooke, Mona

Summary: From a leading child psychologist comes this groundbreaking new understanding of children's behavior, offering insight and strategies to support both parents and children. Over her decades as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Mona Delahooke has routinely counseled distraught parents who struggle to manage their children's challenging, sometimes oppositional behaviors. These families are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 155.4 DEL

Pitman, Gayle E.

Summary: A child celebrates her Maddy, who is neither mommy nor daddy but a little bit of both, like so many things in nature. Includes note to parents.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PIT

Moskowitz, Eva S.

Summary: "Eva Moskowitz has built a national reputation as the founder and leader of Success Academy Charter Schools, one of the country's most highly regarded networks of schools, but while most people know Eva for her success in educating 20,000 mainly low-income students who are routinely accepted to our nation's best universities, she has also been responsible for raising three children of her own....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest, an imprint of William Morrow 2023

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Millet, Lydia

Summary: "[This novel] follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend the days and nights in drunken stupor. This tension heightens when a great storm arrives and throws the house and its residents into chaos. Named for a picture Bible given to Eve's little brother Jack,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIL

Ehrman, Bart D.

Summary: "A New York Times bestselling Biblical scholar reveals why our popular understanding of the Apocalypse is all wrong-and why that matters. You'll find nearly everything the Bible has to say about the end in the Book of Revelation: a mystifying prophecy filled with bizarre symbolism, violent imagery, mangled syntax, confounding contradictions, and very firm ideas about the horrors that await us...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 236 EHR

Kuo, Julia

Summary: Illustrations and text celebrate the special moments--both big and small--that a caregiver and child share.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE KUO

Greene, Ross W.

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "Now in a revised and updated 6th edition, the groundbreaking, research-based approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other challenging behaviors, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the field. What's an explosive child? A child who responds to routine problems with extreme frustration--crying, screaming, swearing, kicking,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2021

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Maguire, Caroline

Summary: Every parent wants their child to have friends, to be successful, to feel comfortable in his or her own skin. But many children lack important social and executive functioning skills that allow them to navigate through the world with ease. Maguire has worked with thousands of families dealing with chronic social dilemmas, ranging from shyness to aggression to ADHD, and more. Here she shares The...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019

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Krans, Angela Pham

Summary: When Felix's grandmother comes from Vietnam to stay with his family in the United States, Felix realizes that he can help Grandma by teaching her English.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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Silverman, Robyn J. A.

Summary: "What do you do when your child comes to you with a question about anxiety, death, divorce, beauty, or race? Poised to become the quintessential conversation resource for parents, How to Talk to Kids About Anything provides powerful words, actionable steps, inspiring real-life stories, and pivotal advice to tackle these difficult conversations with kids. Dr. Robyn Silverman of the How to Talk...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023

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Marino, Gianna

Summary: "It's deep winter in the Antarctic and a little penguin baby waits in the cold and snow for its mama to return from her long journey to find food. But all the while, the baby is protected and kept warm by its papa, until Mama returns with food ... and love."--Publisher's webpage

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022

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Summary: Offers helpful strategies for parents of children under six.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: AGS 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 PAR

Yoshitake, Shinsuke

Summary: A little boy imagines all the things he will be able to open once he gets bigger, but for now he needs his parents' help.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOS

McAnulty, Stacy

Summary: After meeting a dog during a walk, a little girl declares that she wants one hundred dogs, but as her parents point out all the difficulties, she gradually reduces the number--until she gets the one dog she really wants.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCA

Tsabary, Shefali

Summary: "The time has come for parenting to become what it was always meant to be - about the parent. Dr Shefali Tsabary details how our children can be raised as conscious adults only when we as parents allow ourselves to be raised into a higher state of consciousness."--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Namaste Pub. 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 649 TSA

Lukoff, Kyle

Summary: When Aidan was born, everyone thought he was a girl. But once he came out as a trans boy, Aidan and his parents fixed the parts of his life that didn't fit anymore, and he settled happily into being himself. Then Mom and Dad announce that they're having another baby, and Aidan wants to get everything right for his new sibling. But what does it mean to "get everything right"? And what happens if...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books Inc. 2019

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LUK

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LUK

Summary: Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUS

Summary: When it comes to her three free-spirited daughters, Daphne is just your normal over-protective, overbearing, over-the-top mother. Worried that her youngest daughter, Millie, will end up alone, Daphne meddles in her daughter's love life until she ends up doing all wrong things for all the right reasons - and all in the name of motherly love.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BEC

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Because

Oomen, Anne-Marie

2 holds on 3 copies

Summary: "Writer Pam Houston once summed it up, "Nice mother-daughter stories are a dime a dozen; pain-in-the ass mother-daughter stories are the ones that grab us." As Long as I Know You makes a compelling read for any adult grappling with a living elder who might also be a pain in the ass, particularly, any reader who wants a tender take on the lethal combination of dementia and defiance. As Long as I...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Georgia Press 2022

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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 920 OOM

Davies, Nicola

Summary: A young boy and his family are trying to overcome the loss of his father. The natural world becomes part of the healing process.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graffeg 2017

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Jewell, Lisa

Summary: On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. Known locally as the Dark Place, the dense forest is the writer's favorite area for long walks and it's on one such walk that...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JEW

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