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23) Uptown girls
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Molly is the daughter of a deceased rock legend who is, for the first time in her life, forced to work after her manager steals all her inheritance. With help of her friend, Molly becomes the nanny of Ray, the precocious daughter of a busy music executive. She learns as much about being an adult from Ray, as she teachs Ray about being a child.
Formats
Description
In kidsville, youngsters make their own laws, run their own shops and maybe even stay up as late as they want. Each spring, everyone - including Sunny the Bunny - pitches in to make Easter holiday goodies. Then it;s the Bunny's job to take the painted eggs and yummy jellybeans to a nearby town called Town. But he better watch out. Because grouchy old Town doesn't allow kids or a hippity-hoppity Easter bunny!
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Set in 1982, in rural, racially divided Ricksville, Mississippi Wade in the Water tells the story of Ella, a black, unloved, precocious eleven-year-old, and Ms. St. James, a mysterious white woman from Princeton who appears in Ella’s community to carry out some research. Soon, Ms. St. James befriends Ella, who is willing to risk everything to keep her new friend in a town that does not want her there. The relationship between Ella and Ms. St. James,...
26) The hedgehog
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Paloma, a bored eleven-year old who has decided to kill herself on her twelfth birthday, befriends her building's concierge and new neighbor who inspire her to change her pessimistic outlook on life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Clinical psychologist and parent-child relationship specialist Dr. Emily Kline offers a set of five easy-to-learn, clinically proven techniques to improve communication between young adults and their parents. Based in based a methodology known as Motivational Interviewing, these techniques focus on elucidating young people's own thoughts and motivations, rather than trying to impose parental views upon them"--
28) Camp Nowhere
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
A group of teens, sick of the summer camps their parents send them to, blackmail an adult into running a bogus camp where all they have to do all day is have fun.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Speed and self-confidence, that's Astrid's motto. Nicknamed "the little thunderbolt," She loves to spend her days racing down the hillside on her skis or sled, singing merrily as she goes, and drinking hot chocolate made from real chocolate bars with her grumpy best friend and godfather, Gunnvald. She just wishes there were other children to share in her hair-raising adventures. But her world is about to be turned upside down, first by the arrival...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Young writer Olive Wellwood, her sister Violet and husband, Humphry, live in a charmed home in the countryside with their seven children, though we follow most closely the older two, Tom, who is a sort of "lost" child more at home in the woods, and his more practical and determined sister Dorothy. Olive is a famous writer of children's books, in the golden age of fiction about children, inventing fairy tales drawn from her reading of folk tales and...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Home alone: An eight-year-old boy is left home alone on Christmas, and has to defend his home against two bumbling burglars.
Home alone 2: This year, Kevin is spending the holidays in New York City. Unfortunately, his parents are spending them in Florida! Accidentally separated from his parents once again, Kevin manages to find food, lodging and fun using his did's credit card. But when the notorious Wet Bandits escape prison and head for New York...
35) Flatlands
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Freda is a twelve-year-old evacuee from the East End, sent to live with a farming family deep in the lonely landscape of the Fens. Philip is an artist and a conscientious objector, living in a remote lighthouse on the shores of the Wash. The two outcasts come together amid the wild beauty of the wetlands, beneath skies filled with migrating birds and crisscrossed by Nazi bombers. As the world is consumed by war, they form a friendship that will...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"This heartfelt story tells the true but unlikely tale of a young woman working in the city and a young boy in desperate need of friendship and guidance. In the short time after they meet, Laura realizes Maurice has never celebrated Christmas, so she opens her heart and her home and sets out to show him how wondrous the holiday is. What she finds through his glowing eyes is that the meaning of the holiday is truly about giving, not getting, as they...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"The hopes we have for the children in our lives are endless. We want our young people to thrive and experience all that life has to offer, but we also feel protective of them. Using simple but powerful statements, Monique Gray Smith delivers a touching message about loving, nurturing and wishing the best for our children. Paired with Gabrielle Grimard's warm and enchanting illustrations, the message in I Hope will resonate with all parents, grandparents...