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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted and wrote and couldn't stand the responsibility of providing...
Author
Publisher
Central Recovery Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Quality parenting doesn't happen by accident or coincidence--it necessitates conscious awareness and intentional effort. Designed to guide parents in recovery so they can nurture healthy family dynamics through mindfulness, Roots and Wings will help people develop awareness and skills to become the parents they want to be and the parents their children need."
8) Mama's waves
Author
Publisher
Piplo Productions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Ellie's mom did not come for their visit, and Ellie is stuck in a cloud of sadness and anger as she tries to understand why. Fortunately, Miss K. and Ellie's Uncle Finny are there to help her. Using the metaphor of a wave, they help Ellie talk about and understand her mother's ups and downs, recognize and hold on to loving memories, and know that she is not alone. Millions of young children live in families with an adult who is struggling due to...
Author
Publisher
Piplo Productions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ellie's dad did not come for their visit, and Ellie is stuck in a cloud of sadness and anger as she tries to understand why. Fortunately, Miss K. and Ellie's Uncle Finny are there to help her. Using the metaphor of a wave, they help Ellie talk about and understand her daddy's ups and downs, recognize and hold on to loving memories, and know that she is not alone. Millions of young children live in families with an adult who is struggling due to trauma...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Pocos meses antes de su boda, Marian recibe una noticia que la obliga a emprender un viaje inesperado para acompañar a su hermano y a sus cuatro sobrinos en el funeral de su cuñada. Jamás imaginó que este viaje cambiaría por completo el rumbo de su vida. Una serie de encuentros y desencuentros insospechados obligarán a que la adorable tía Marian enfrente su pasado, personal y familiar, para poder explicar su presente lleno de miedos, inseguridades...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Jillian Slater hadn't seen her father or his mother in almost 20 years until, on the news that her father had finally drunk himself to death, Adella Atwater, the manager of her grandmother's apartment house, calls and says Jillian's expenses would be paid if she'd fly in to New Orleans for the burial. What Adella didn't tell her was that the apartment house bears the dead weight of a long and painful history. As an investigation into her father's...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
""Wake up, you filthy beasts!" Wendy Hamill would shout to her children in the mornings before school. Startled from their dreams, Kirk and his two brothers couldn't help but wonder--would they find enough food in the house for breakfast? Following a rancorous split from New York's upper-class society, newly divorced Wendy and her three sons are exiled from the East Coast elite circle. Wendy's middle son, Kirk, is eight when she moves the family to...
Author
Publisher
Nothing But the Truth, LLC
Pub. Date
©2014
Language
English
Description
"Karen Lynch was an unlikely person to become one of the first female cops in San Francisco. Raised by a counter-culture tribe in summer of love Haight-Ashbury, she was taught to despise "The Man." But when the San Francisco Police Department was forced by court order to hire women, she found herself compelled to prove to the world that women could cut it as cops, a betrayal that caused her police-loathing mother to brand her a Nazi. Good Cop, Bad...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A daughter's quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, an immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory--between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and death. ¿Papi, dónde estás? Throughout Jean Guerrero's childhood, her father, Marco Antonio, was an erratic and elusive presence. A self-taught genius at fixing, creating, and conjuring things--and capable of transforming himself into a shaman, dreamcaster,...
Author
Publisher
Bella Luna Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"As the face of her eponymous couture bridal business, Erin Cole radiates refined elegance. But the designer's glamorous lifestyle and sweeping success belie a childhood marked by profound dysfunction. Raised on a steady diet of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and death, no one would have expected Cole to go on to become a force in the fashion world. As a child, she often had no access to food; other times she was force-fed until she vomited. At home...
18) A swift pure cry
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Coolbar, Ireland, is a village of secrets and Shell, caretaker to her younger brother and sister after the death of their mother and with the absence of their father, is not about to reveal hers until suspicion falls on the wrong person.
Author
Publisher
Borealis Books
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
"Practicing baseball with Dad, then watching him go after a cow with a pitchfork in a fit of rage. Playing chicken on the county road with semi trucks full of hogs. Flirting with the milkman. Chasing with your sisters after Wreck and Bump, mangy mutts who prowl farmsteads killing chickens and drinking fuel oil. Moonshine and dandelion wine. The ghost of a girl buried alive over a century ago. These unforgettable, sometimes hilarious images spill from...
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