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Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Wittels Wachs's younger brother Harris died of a heroin overdose, she didn't know how to make sense of such a tragic end to a life of so much hilarious brilliance. Here she alternates between her brother's struggle with addiction, and the first year after his death. Even in all its emotional devastation, this exploration of the love between siblings will make you laugh, cry ... and wonder if that possum on the fence is really your brother's spirit...
2) The nest
Author
Language
English
Description
A warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives.
Author
Language
English
Description
When the renowned poet Fiona Skinner is asked about the inspiration behind her iconic work, The Love Poem, she tells her audience a story about her family and a betrayal that reverberates through time. It begins in a big yellow house with a funeral, an iron poker, and a brief variation forever known as the Pause: a free and feral summer in a middle-class Connecticut town. Caught between the predictable life they once led and an uncertain future that...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Preston and Constance Whittier have built a happy life together, with a brood of six children raised in a beautiful historic Manhattan mansion. Now, with a nearly empty nest, it's easier than ever for the Whittiers to maintain their tradition of a solo romantic "Wintermoon" ski trip. But with this year's trip comes tragedy, and suddenly the Whittier's adult children find themselves reuniting in the family home without their parents for the first...
11) Silly Billy!
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Little brother Billy ruins all his sister's attempts to play and is excused by the grownups because he's "only little."
13) The deceivers
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Told from separate viewpoints, as Finn, Emma, and Chess Greystone and Natalie Mayhew, ages eight to thirteen, continue their quest to rescue their mothers they must return to the alternate dimension where truth is illegal.
14) Stanley & Rhoda
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
c1978
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In three episodes a brother and sister deal with Rhoda's untidy room, a bee sting, and a baby sitter.
15) Lou goes too!
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hildy the duck is annoyed to have to take her little brother Lou to the pond with her, but she realizes how much he means to her when he gets stuck in the mud and has to be rescued.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love...
Author
Language
English
Description
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
19) April fool!
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Harry, his little sister Emily, and their parents all play tricks on each other for April Fools' Day.
20) Hi, new baby!
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A father recalls his young daughter's first reactions to her new baby brother.
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