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  • A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams

    A Chair for My Mother

    Vera B. Williams

    A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.

  • A Family is a Family is a Family by Sara O'Leary

    A Family is a Family is a Family

    Sara O'Leary

    When a teacher asks the children in her class to think about what makes their families special, the answers are all different in many ways -- but the same in the one way that matters most of all. One child is worried that her family is just too different to explain, but listens as her classmates talk about what makes their families special. One is raised by a grandmother, and another has two dads. One is full of stepsiblings, and another has a new baby.

  • A Gift from Abuela by Cecilia Ruiz

    A Gift from Abuela

    Cecilia Ruiz

    The first time Abuela held Niña, her heart overflowed with tenderness. And as Niña grows up, she and Abuela have a lot of fun doing simple things. Abuela decides that she wants to buy Niña a special treat, so she saves a little bit of her money every week. But then something terrible happens, and Abuela's dream of a surprise for Niña seems impossible. Luckily, the time they spend together and the love they have for each other are the best gifts of all.

  • All Families are Different by Sol Gordon and Vivien Cohen

    All Families are Different

    Sol Gordon and Vivien Cohen

    Discusses differences in families in today's society, as well as what makes each family special.

  • All Families are Special by Norma Simon

    All Families are Special

    Norma Simon

    Students in Mrs. Mack's class describe their families--big or small, living together or apart, with two moms or none--and learn why every family is special and important.

  • All We Can Do Is Wait by Richard Lawson

    All We Can Do Is Wait

    Richard Lawson

    In the hours after a bridge collapse rocks their city, four teens are forced to face their pasts and the prospect of very different futures as they wait at Boston General Hospital for news of their loved ones.

  • An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

    An Ember in the Ashes

    Sabaa Tahir

    Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.

  • An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

    An Enchantment of Ravens

    Margaret Rogerson

    Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel's paintings are highly prized. But when she receives her first royal patron--Rook, the autumn prince--she makes a terrible mistake. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes--a weakness that could cost him his life. Furious and devastated, Rook spirits her away to the autumnlands to stand trial for her crime.

  • A Place to Call Home by Jackie French Koller

    A Place to Call Home

    Jackie French Koller

    Biracial Anna, 15, is a strong character in search of love & roots following sexual abuse & rejection from her own family. Caring for her two younger siblings after their unreliable mother abandons them, fifteen-year-old Anna discovers the difficulties of trying to be a parent.

  • A Silent Voice, Volume 1 by Yoshitoki Oima

    A Silent Voice, Volume 1

    Yoshitoki Oima

    Shoya is a bully. When Shoko, a girl who can’t hear, enters his elementary school class, she becomes their favorite target, and Shoya and his friends goad each other into devising new tortures for her. But the children’s cruelty goes too far. Shoko is forced to leave the school, and Shoya ends up shouldering all the blame. Six years later, the two meet again. Can Shoya make up for his past mistakes, or is it too late?

  • A Silent Voice, Volume 2 by Yoshitoki Oima

    A Silent Voice, Volume 2

    Yoshitoki Oima

    It’s been five years since Shoya Ishida bullied Shoko Nishimiya so badly she left their elementary school, because of one simple difference between them: Shoya can hear, and Shoko can’t. In the intervening time, Shoya’s life has changed completely. Shunned by his friends, Shoya’s longed for the chance to make up for his cruelty. When it finally comes, will he find the voice to tell Shoko he’s changed? And will Shoko listen?

  • A Silent Voice, Volume 3 by Yoshitoki Oima

    A Silent Voice, Volume 3

    Yoshitoki Oima

    Shoya’s decided to do everything he can to make up for how terribly he treated Shoko, his former classmate who can’t hear. But more than the challenge of learning to communicate, it means facing a past he thought he’d left behind forever. Now a reunion with old friends will transform Shoya, and his relationship with Shoko.

  • A Silent Voice, Volume 4 by Yoshitoki Oima

    A Silent Voice, Volume 4

    Yoshitoki Oima

    Once upon a time, Shoya was terribly cruel to Shoko, his elementary school classmate who couldn’t hear. To make up for his past sins, Shoya has devoted himself to repaying the debt of happiness he owes. So when Shoko faces a romantic setback, Shoya assembles some familiar faces from their past for a trip to the amusement park that may just change things for Shoya, too.

  • A Silent Voice, Volume 5 by Yoshitoki Oima

    A Silent Voice, Volume 5

    Yoshitoki Oima

    Despite their tense pasts, Shoya begins to embrace the friend group that used to terrorize Shoko because she couldn’t hear. Now that summer vacation is in full swing, the crew can work together to film Tomohiro’s eccentric movie. Each fun-filled day lazily passes by, but doubt tugs at Shoya’s heavy heart and he is desperate to cling on to meaningful moments before they are gone.

  • A Silent Voice, Volume 6 by Yoshitoki Oima

    A Silent Voice, Volume 6

    Yoshitoki Oima

    Time stands still for both Shoya and Shoko. Triggered by past traumas, Shoya coldly attacked his friends and burnt the bridges he first set out to rebuild. Shoko feels a deep responsibility for this disaster and attempts to pay for it by taking her own life. Meanwhile, each of their friends finally show their true colors. After everything has fallen apart, how will they mend their hearts and put the pieces back together?

  • A Silent Voice, Volume 7 by Yoshitoki Oima

    A Silent Voice, Volume 7

    Yoshitoki Oima

    Shoya’s life hangs on by a thread after he jumped just in time to save Shoko. Despite the despair, Shoko is determined to move forward and get back what she thinks she has ruined… But broken friendships can heal, too. Quietly, but surely, the disbanded crew finds their spirit — the show must go on! As the movie-making reconvenes, the kids begin to transform the world that had once been so cruel to them. What could the future hold for everyone?

  • A Step Toward Falling by Cammie McGovern

    A Step Toward Falling

    Cammie McGovern

    When their inaction during an attack on a disabled girl earns them community service at a center for people with disabilities, Emily and Lucas bond while trying to make up for their mistake, and wonder if they can make it right with the girl who suffered because of them.

  • Aunt Minnie McGranahan by Mary Skillings Prigger

    Aunt Minnie McGranahan

    Mary Skillings Prigger

    The townspeople in St. Clere, Kansas, are sure it will never work out when the neat and orderly spinster, Minnie McGranahan, takes her nine orphaned nieces and nephews into her home in 1920.

  • Becoming Naomi León by Pam Muñoz Ryan

    Becoming Naomi León

    Pam Muñoz Ryan

    Naomi Soledad León Outlaw has had a lot to contend with in her young life, her name for one. Then there are her clothes (sewn in polyester by Gram), her difficulty speaking up, and her status at school as "nobody special." But according to Gram's self-prophecies, most problems can be overcome with positive thinking. Luckily, Naomi also has her carving to strengthen her spirit. And life with Gram and her little brother, Owen, is happy and peaceful. That is, until their mother reappears for the first time in seven years, stirring up all sorts of questions and challenging Naomi to discover who she really is.

  • Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson

    Betty Before X

    Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson

    Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.

  • Big & Little Questions (According to Wren Jo Byrd) by Julie Bowe

    Big & Little Questions (According to Wren Jo Byrd)

    Julie Bowe

    Fourth grader Wren Jo Byrd questions lots of things--both little and big--when her parents decide to get a divorce, and learns a lot about the true meaning of family, home, and friendship.

  • Billy Had to Move: A Foster Care Story by Theresa Ann Fraser

    Billy Had to Move: A Foster Care Story

    Theresa Ann Fraser

    Child Protection Services have been involved with Billy and his mother for some time now. He has been happily settled in a kinship placement with his grandmother and enjoys his pet cat, interacting with neighbors and even taking piano lessons. As the story unfolds, Billy's grandmother has unexpectedly passed away and so the story of Billy Had To Move begins. Unfortunately, Billy's mother cannot be located. Mr. Murphy, Billy's social worker, places him in the foster home of Amy, Tim, and their baby "Colly." Billy experiences great loss resulting not only from his grandmother's death, but also the loss of the life he knew. Billy's inner journey therefore has also begun and with the help of Ms. Woods, a Play Therapist, there is hope.

  • Bingo Love by Tee Franklin

    Bingo Love

    Tee Franklin

    When Hazel Johnson and Mari McCray met at church bingo in 1963, it was love at first sight. Forced apart by their families and society, Hazel and Mari both married young men and had families. Decades later, now in their mid-'60s, Hazel and Mari reunite again at a church bingo hall. Realizing their love for each other is still alive, what these grandmothers do next takes absolute strength and courage.

  • Bloodline by Joe Jimenez

    Bloodline

    Joe Jimenez

    Seventeen-year-old Abraham is in love, but his girlfriend and the grandmother who raised him are worried about his fighting, and things only get worse when his uncle introduces him to boxing.

  • Burning City by Ariel Dorfman and Joaquin Dorfman

    Burning City

    Ariel Dorfman and Joaquin Dorfman

    Sixteen-year-old Heller Highland, who is living with his grandparents while his parents are away, burns rubber across Manhattan delivering bad news by bicycle, and as a summer heat wave melts the city, he is struck by first love.

 
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