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1321) I so don't do makeup
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When Phoenix, Arizona, seventh-grader Sherry Baldwin hosts a makeover sleepover that causes horrible reactions in her friends' skin, she enlists the help of her mother, a ghost detective at the Academy of Spirits, to help solve the mystery of the tainted makeup.
1322) See you soon
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"From New York Times Bestselling Author Mariame Kaba, a poignant, beautifully illustrated story of a little girl's worries when her Mama goes to jail, and the love that bridges the distance between them."--Amazon.
1325) The Golden State
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In Lydia Kiesling's razor-sharp debut novel, The Golden State, we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler, Honey. Bucking under the weight of being a single parent--her Turkish husband is unable to return to the United States because of a “processing error”--Daphne takes refuge in a mobile home left to her by her...
1326) Keeper
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On the night of the blue moon when mermaids are said to gather on a sandbar in the Gulf of Mexico, ten-year-old Keeper sets out in a small boat, with her dog BD and a seagull named Captain, determined to find her mother, a mermaid, as Keeper has always believed, who left long ago to return to the sea.
1327) Circle of secrets
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A year after her mother has deserted the family, eleven-year-old Shelby goes to stay with her, deep in the Louisiana bayou, where they both confront old hurts and regrets.
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Artemisia (Sia) Martinez's mother was deported to Mexico by ICE and disappeared in the Sonoran Desert trying to make it back to her American family; Sia believes that she was as-good-as murdered by ICE and the sheriff in their small Arizona town on the edge of the national park, and wants revenge against him and his son, Jeremy--but her search for the truth will uncover many more secrets than she counted on.
1330) School spirit
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Like her mother, a professional medium, Kat has been able to see dead people since turning thirteen, and although they would prefer to be normal, Kat and her best friend come to terms with their own talents while helping free the spirit of a girl trapped at their middle school.
1332) And then there was us
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"Coi is just eighteen years old but has already survived years of physical and verbal abuse from her mother. After being kicked out of her mother's house at age fourteen, Coi has lived with her father, and together they've created a peaceful life. That peace ends suddenly when her mother dies. Her mother's passing also reopens the door to her mother's side of the family, including her beloved younger half-sister, Kayla, her stepfather and her grandmother....
1333) Perfect little lives
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With her past set on haunting her, Simone, whose father was convicted of murdering her mother ten years ago, finds a chance encounter with her childhood next-door neighbor revealing a shocking secret that could prove her father's innocence or destroy her carefully rebuilt life.
1335) All roads lead to Rome
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Maggie is an uptight, single mother who, in an effort to reconnect with her troubled teen daughter Summer, takes her to the Tuscan village where she used to visit in her youth. There Maggie runs into her former lover Luca and his mother, Carmen. When Summer and Carmen impulsively steal Luca's car and race off to Rome, Maggie and Luca follow in close pursuit.
1336) Every day, chemistry
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"Science is all around us in our daily lives. Specifically, chemistry! When your bread toasts, when your shampoo foams, when the playground slide rusts--those are all chemical reactions. In this book, a mother and daughter experience all these things and more as they go about their day, from when they wake up, to when they go to bed."--Dust jacket.
1337) Trowbridge Road
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It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing...
1338) Sunny Holiday
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Spunky third-grader Sunny Holiday tries to make the best out of every situation, and even though her father is in prison, she and her mother count their blessings and manage to find joy in every day.
1339) 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.
1340) I, Coriander
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In 17th century London, Coriander, a girl who has inherited magic from her mother, must find a way to use this magic in order to save both herself and an inhabitant of the fairy world where her mother was born.
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