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Felicity Pickle is not like other people--where other people collect baseball cards or whatever, Felicity collects words. Words people say, think, and want. The word she wants, in all of her family's moving around, is "home." Finally, her mother's van called the "Pickled Jalapeno" rolls into Midnight Gulch, where she hopes maybe she has found the word "home," and maybe even "friend."
2) Saturday
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Diverse Books - African American/ Black Experience in the U.S.
Picture Books to Celebrate Mothers
2nd Grade Reading
Diverse Books - African American/ Black Experience in the U.S.
Picture Books to Celebrate Mothers
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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.
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April Showers and May Flowers
Fun Summer Titles
Lorraine: The Girl Who Sang the Storm Away 2024
RtR Books to Beat the Heat
Fun Summer Titles
Lorraine: The Girl Who Sang the Storm Away 2024
RtR Books to Beat the Heat
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A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat.
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"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!"--
5) Me & Mama
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For a little girl on a rainy day, the best place to be is with Mama.
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Turning Red is about a confident if dorky thirteen-year-old who is torn between the chaos of adolescence and remaining her mother's dutiful daughter. In addition to Mei Lee's changing interests, relationships, and body, she has started to "poof" into a giant red panda whenever she gets too emotional... which is almost all the time!
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Picture Books to Celebrate Mothers
Summer Challenge 2023: LGBT Authors
Picture Books to Celebrate Mothers
Summer Challenge 2023: LGBT Authors
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When her mother goes on a business trip, a little girl, who loves to sit between Mama and Mommy at the table, misses her a lot and feels empty until Mommy finally comes home, filling the void with love.
11) Valentine
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While waiting for her mother to come home from work on Valentine's Day, Heather helps her grandmother rescue a newborn lamb and bake a special cooky.
12) Fairy Mom and me
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Ella Brook cannot wait to grow up and be a fairy just like her mom, even though her fairy mom's spells often backfire and Ella usually has to come to the rescue with a well-timed suggestion or manual clean-up.
13) The glass witch
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Twelve-year-old Adelaide Goode, the weakest witch born to the Goode family in centuries, accidentally unleashes a curse that threatens to erase her and magic if she fails to break the spell before midnight on Halloween.
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"In the hills above Port-au-Prince, a young girl named Fallon wants more than anything to carry a large woven basket to the market, just like her Manman. As she watches her mother wrap her hair in a mouchwa, Fallon tries to twist her own braids into a scarf and balance the empty panye atop her head, but realizes it's much harder than she thought" --
15) Mommy's khimar
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Black History Month
Books for Preschoolers (3-4 years old)
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Books for Preschoolers (3-4 years old)
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"A young Muslim girl puts on a head scarf and not only feels closer to her mother, she also imagines herself as a queen, the sun, a superhero, and more." --
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Twelve-year-old June Delancey is determined to beat her anxiety and become the lion she knows she is, instead of the mouse everyone sees, and with the help of Homer Juarez, the poetry-reciting soccer star, she starts a secret library garden and hatches a plan to make her dreams come true.
17) Bad hair day
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Franny tries to follow her mother's suggestion to change her appearance, but by turning hair styling into a science experiment she creates some very greedy pigtails that terrorize the town.
18) A comb of wishes
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Twelve-year-old Kela is still mourning her mother when she finds a mermaid's comb while she and her friend are looking for sea glass on her Caribbean island; such combs have magic in them, and touching it opens a connection to the mermaid Ophidia who can grant her wish, to bring her mother back to life--but all wishes have consequences, and magic demands a price which may prove to be more painful than the loss of her mother.
20) The memory thief
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When sixth-grader Rosie begins to see magic, she learns that her mother's dwindling memory is tied to an age-old battle between the light of the moon and the darkness of witches.
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