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1) Bea Wolf
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
When their evil neighbor, also known as the guardian of gloom, lays siege to Treeheart, a kid-forged sanctuary, turning them into pimply teenagers and sullen adults, the survivors of the onslaught call out for Bea Wolf--an unbreakable warrior with a penchant for mischief.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
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"Lillian and Madison were the unlikeliest of roommates at their elite boarding school: Madison, the daughter of a prominent Atlanta family, being groomed for greatness; Lillian, a scholarship student, plucked out of nowhere based solely on her intellect and athletic prowess. The two were as tight as could be, reveling in their unique weirdness, until Lillian had to leave the school unexpectedly. Years later, the two have lost touch, but Madison writes...
Author
Series
Miss Julia series volume 22
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"Miss Julia has decided to turn over a new leaf -- it's time to stop meddling in other peoples' lives. But her hands are full before long! Mildred is sent into a tizzy when a grandchild she's never met shows up on her doorstop. With her husband fighting a mysterious illness, she's all on her own. Meanwhile, Etta Mae is worried about losing her job now that the retirement care center is closing. Luckily Miss Julia has experience dealing with children...
5) Nanny McPhee
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Nanny McPhee can tame even the most unruly children with a tap of her magic walking stick. Her latest challenge is the bratty brood of a recent widower Mr. Brown. He is under pressure to find a new wife or lose his much-needed allowance from wealthy Aunt Adelaide. His love for scullery maid Evangeline remains unspoken as he wincingly woos the eagerly merry widow Mrs. Quickly, but Brown's raucous rugrats have a plan to make things right, especially...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Eudora Honeysett is done with this noisy, moronic world--all of it. She has witnessed the indignities and suffering of old age and has lived a full life. At eighty-five, she isn't going to leave things to chance. Her end will be on her terms. With one call to a clinic in Switzerland, a plan is set in motion. Then she meets ten-year-old Rose Trewidney, a whirling, pint-sized rainbow of color and sparkling cheer. All Eudora wants is to be left alone...
7) Moo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
After living in New York City her entire life, twelve-year-old Reena and her family unexpectedly move to Maine. And when Reena's parents volunteer her and her brother to work for their eccentric new neighbor Mrs. Falala and her troublemaking cow Zora, Reena knows her life will never be quite the same.
10) Putney: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
An inappropriate bond between the preadolescent daughter of a famous novelist and a rising 1970s London composer twenty years her senior intensifies into a predatory affair, in a tale told from three perspectives.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
With over two decades experience working directly with parents, acclaimed clinical psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Shefali offers a profoundly practical and groundbreaking parenting solution that helps parents actualize their deepest desires for their children. This step-by-step guide disrupts toxic inherited patterns and replaces them with authentic connections that allow us to see and respond to our children for who they are and who they...
13) Aquarium
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Twelve-year-old Caitlin's daily visits to the local aquarium after school bring her into contact with an elderly fellow aquarium lover, whom she befriends just as she discovers a shocking family secret.
Description
"Kevin McCallister is ... ready to turn the Big Apple into his own playground. ... The notorious Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv, still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are plotting a huge holiday heist. Kevin's ready to welcome them with a battery of booby traps that the bumbling bandits will never forget"--Container.
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Just for you: Musical comedy about widower Jordan Blake, a successful Broadway producer who's not very successful as a father until a musical comedy star shows him the way.
Here comes the groom: Musical comedy about a reporter who must find a bride in five days if he wants to keep the war orphans he is eager to adopt.
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
"In Saving Childhood, cultural critic Michael Medved and his wife, psychologist Diane Medved, provide positive and practical strategies for parents who struggle every day with a society that seems perversely determined to frighten and corrupt its young. They explore and explain today's assault on innocence, which now menaces our children from four directions - the media, schools, peers, and most destructively, parents themselves. This book provides...
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Best buddies Dustin, Albert, and Mark are twelve-year-old boys looking forward to a summer of fun in 1970. When Dustin mows the lawn of 75-year-old Jonathan Sperry, a man he has seen at church, a unique friendship develops, setting the stage for a summer the three boys will never forget!