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Hoffman, Mary

Summary: Features illustrations and descriptions of different types of families and how their lives are similar and different.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.8 HOF

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.8 HOF

McDonald, Briana

Summary: Amateur detective Pepper Blouse, a rising seventh-grader, cannot resist investigating when her Great Aunt Florence passes away under mysterious circumstances, but strictly following her mother's Detective Rulebook may not be the best plan.--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCD

Magoon, Kekla

Summary: Eleven-year-old Chester and his classmate Skye, tasked with a complex puzzle-solving mission, discover the key to their spy assignment is to stop a heist, but cracking the code could mean finding out things are not always what they seem.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAG

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAG

Mangle, Bethany

Summary: When Cara accidentally posts a rant about her father and his new wife online, it goes viral-- and catches the attention of the TV producers behind a new reality dating show for single parent families. Now Cara and her mother have been whisked away to sunny Key West where they're asked to narrow a field of suitors and their kids down to one winning pair. It's outside Cara's comfort zone, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAN

Tan, Amy Rebecca

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Jamie must spend her summer volunteering at Foxfield Public Library, but quickly grows to love the people there and enthusiastically joins the fight to save the library.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TAN

Birdsall, Jeanne.

Summary: While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2006

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Lee, Lyla

Summary: Mindy and her dad can't wait to compete in her school's annual family trivia night. The big prize? A year of free pizza. And she gets to be on a team with her best friend, Sally, and her family.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC LEE

Philippe, Ben

Summary: When Norris, a Black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas, high school, he views his fellow students as clichés from "a bad 90s teen movie"

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PHI

Acampora, Paul

Summary: Fourteen-year-old Ellie Magari's mother left shortly after Ellie was born, and her father has raised her, but Ellie always figured that one day she would meet her mother and ask her some pertinent questions--but now her mother has died, and Ellie does not know exactly how to feel about that, but she is determined, with the help of her friends in the St. Francis of Assisi's Howling Wolves...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ACA

Dellaccio, Tanya

Summary: "Each family is unique. Sometimes families only have one parent, and that's OK. Many children in the United States live with one parent. This title explores the joys, hardships, and complexities of life with a single parent. Some families with one parent are surrounded by positive circumstances, while others face difficulties such as a lack of childcare, poverty, and more. This title touches...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2021

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Families Dellaccio

Klages, Ellen

Summary: In 1957, inspired by what she is learning about civil rights and armed with knowledge of female ball players, ten-year-old Katy Gordon fights to be allowed to play Little League baseball.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KLA

Magoon, Kekla

Summary: Eleven-year-old Chester and his classmate Skye, tasked with a complex puzzle-solving mission, discover the key to their spy assignment is to stop a heist, but cracking the code could mean finding out things are not always what they seem.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MAG

Birdsall, Jeanne.

Summary: The four Penderwick sisters are faced with the unimaginable prospect of their widowed father dating, and they hatch a plot to stop him.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC BIR

Klages, Ellen

Summary: In 1957, ten-year-old Katy Gordon fights to be allowed to play Little League baseball and uses what she learns about civil rights and the history of female baseball players to challenge the league ban on girls.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC KLA

Cline-Ransome, Lesa

Summary: Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CLI

Hobbs, Will

Summary: "Determined to recover his family's mules, fifteen-year-old Owen is joined by his kid brother and Telluride's notorious marshal in pursuit of a rustler--all the way to Butch Cassidy's hideout"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOB

Lyga, Barry

Summary: Sebastian Cody did something horrible, something no one--not even Sebastian himself--can forgive. At the age of four, he accidentally shot and killed his infant sister with his father's gun.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LYG

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Lyga 2017

Marino, Gianna

Summary: "It's deep winter in the Antarctic and a little penguin baby waits in the cold and snow for its mama to return from her long journey to find food. But all the while, the baby is protected and kept warm by its papa, until Mama returns with food ... and love."--Publisher's webpage

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAR

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