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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MANChanani, Nidhi
Summary: Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years ago? What was it like there? And most importantly, who is her father, and why did her mom leave him behind? But Pri's mom avoids these questions and the topic of India is permanently closed. For Pri, her mother's homeland can only exist in her imagination. That is, until she finds a mysterious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 CHAAcampora, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ACAMann, Dionna L.
Summary: "Set in the 1930s in the segregated African American community of Vinegar Hill in Charlottesville, Virginia, ten-year-old Allie devises a secret Man for Mama Plan to find her mama a husband"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MANGlasgow, Kathleen
Summary: Tiger, sixteen, has been pushing away from her overprotective mother, but when her mother dies suddenly Tiger must learn to live when it feels she is surrounded by darkness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GLALloyd, Natalie
Summary: The Pickles are new to Midnight Gulch, Tennessee, a town which legend says was once magic--but Felicity is convinced the magic is still there, and with the help of her new friend Jonah the Beedle she hopes to bring the magic back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LLOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LLOHanna Alkaf
Summary: Retells a Malaysian folk tale in which a lonely girl, Suraya, inherits from her grandmother a pelesit, a ghostly demon, who proves to be a good companion, bringing both danger and hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HANLake, Nick.
Summary: Shelby Cooper, nearly eighteen, has been overprotected by her single mother all her life but after a car accident, Shelby's mother steals her away from the hospital, revealing that Shelby's father is not dead, but rather a violent man who promised to hunt them down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA Childrens 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LAKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAKAdler, Elizabeth (Elizabeth A.)
Summary: Newly-single mother Caroline Evans dreams of restoring an old barn into a restaurant, but her chance at happiness suddenly hangs in the balance as whispers of murder and vengeance find their way to her and her daughter Issy, hovering in that limbo between girl and young woman, begins to make some dangerous choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ADLAdler, Elizabeth (Elizabeth A.)
Summary: Newly-single mother Caroline Evans dreams of restoring an old barn into a restaurant, but her chance at happiness suddenly hangs in the balance as whispers of murder and vengeance find their way to her and her daughter Issy, hovering in that limbo between girl and young woman, begins to make some dangerous choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADLRice, Luanne
Summary: Single mother May Taylor has survived an abundance of life's challenges in her young existence. Thus, when she meets famed hockey player Martin Cartier, and an exciting love affair ensues, May has reason to count her blessings. As their passionate affair turns into the commitment of marriage, May realizes that Martin will need her support to work through some of the dark ghosts of his past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RICRice, Luanne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RICShimko, Bonnie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Academy Chicago Publishers 2002