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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.
4) Me & Mama
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2nd Grade Reading
Books for Preschoolers (3-4 years old)
Diverse Books - African American/ Black Experience in the U.S.
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Books for Preschoolers (3-4 years old)
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For a little girl on a rainy day, the best place to be is with Mama.
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Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out...
8) You be mommy
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"Mommy's too tired to be Mommy tonight. Can you be Mommy and hold me tight? In this clever, rhyming picture book, a mother tells her child that she's simply too tired to be Mommy tonight and asks her daughter to take over for her." -- Dust jacket.
9) Little diva
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Nena wants to be a Diva, with a capital D, just like her mommy, who's a star on Broadway. So she learns all she can about singing and dancing when she is at the theater and trains day and night to make her dreams come true.
10) Little Night
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At the end of a long day, Mother Sky helps her playful daughter, Little Night, to get ready for bed.
12) Most perfect you
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A little girl learns to love each part of herself, from her spectacular hair to her big heart.
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When her older brother is arrested on her eleventh birthday, Bean Wright is devastated, and determined to raise the bail money that their mother does not have; the most promising scheme she comes up with is getting a young girl named Phoebe, one of the summer residents, to sell her valuable Mastiff guard dog, Honey--but the scheme takes a dark turn when the buyer turns out to want Honey for dog fighting.
16) Brown sugar babe
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"When a little girl has doubts about the color of her skin, her mother shows her all the wonderful, beautiful things brown can be! This message of self-love and acceptance uses rich, dreamy illustrations to celebrate the color using all the senses: sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing" --
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In 1967 Tanzania, when President Nyerere urges his people to work together as one extended family, the people of Litongo move to a new village which, to some, seems cursed, but where thirteen-year-old Shida, a healer, and her female cousins are allowed to attend school. Includes glossary and author's note.
19) Mama's Home
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"Home can be a blue house with white trim you share with your mama. But it can be bigger than that, with lots of Big Mamas to take care of you when your mom works--different houses for every day of the week. Mondays mean Nurse Louella and bike riding. Tuesdays mean eating fufu with your fingers with Miss Zikora. And Wednesdays . . . well, no matter where you are, as long as you are with your Big Mamas, you are home."--
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