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Author
Publisher
Dell Yearling
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After a rich, eccentric cousin's son is killed just before the public reading of his father's will, Jenny's mother decides to track down the killer, and her mother's lack of experience compels Jenny to help.
Author
Series
Family tree volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dana is Abby and Zander's daughter, but growing up in New York City in the late nineteen fifties is not always easy, especially when you would like your own room separate from your twin sister--and when your beloved father dies and you are forced to move things just get worse.
85) Turning red
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Turning Red, Mei Lee is a confident, dorky thirteen-year-old torn between staying her mother's dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. And as if changes to her interests, relationships, and body weren't enough, whenever she gets too excited (which for a teenager is practically ALWAYS), she "poofs" into a giant red panda!" --
86) Bad hair day
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Franny tries to follow her mother's suggestion to change her appearance, but by turning hair styling into a science experiment she creates some very greedy pigtails that terrorize the town.
87) My mommy marches
Author
Publisher
Lantana Publishing, Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A young girl watches her mommy proudly take to the streets to march for what she believes in. Mommy marches through the sunshine, through the rain and through the deepest snow, on her own or hand-in-hand with others, to give voice to causes that need to be heard. Inspired to join the next generation of young activists, her daughter dreams of marching alongside her."--Amazon website.
88) Say it!
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It's a golden, windy autumn day, and a mother a daughter set out walking among the swirling leaves. As they wend their way, they share little adventures--spying a kitten, seeing the trees zigzag with streaks of color, catching some floating milkweed, watching the setting sun color the clouds. Throughout their walk, the girl keeps urging her mother to "say it" with more and more persistence. What could "it" be? From a sterling picture-book team comes...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Georgia finds a secret sketch her late father--a famed artist--left behind, the discovery leads her down a path that may reshape everything holding her family and friends together. Caroline Gertler's debut is a story about friendship, family, grief, and creativity.
90) Everlasting Nora
Author
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After surviving a fire in which her father dies, Nora and her mother live in a cemetery, but when her mother disappears and a loan shark steals her savings, Nora finds support from her cemetery neighbors to earn some money and search for her mother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga's role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken,...
92) Luna Ranchera
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This spellbinding original story opens in a cantina crowded with desert animals, cowboys, and cowgirls all excited to see the glamorous Luna Ranchera mother-daughter singing duo. Long ago, Luna was down on her luck, starving and struggling to feed her pups, reduced to thieving from nearby ranchers. One day, escaping another heist, Luna has to hide in the worst possible place: on top of a beehive! She howls in pain so loudly, it carries all across...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Evil Queen has been trapped in mirror prison for a long time so she has decided to put her time to bad use by writing to her daughter, Raven Queen. Can she convince Raven to embrace her true destiny and to celebrate her evil heritage?
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As Neela and her mother cook together, they find a way for Neela's grandmother, who lives in India, to share in both the love and the flavors of the day. Includes tomato facts.
Author
Publisher
Picarona
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Camila, whose family consists of her, her mother, and Gimmy the dog, does not have a father and has never missed having one, so she really does not know what to do when a substitute teacher asks her to draw the father she wishes she had.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl learns much about her mother as she reads a collection of poems written before she was born that capture her mother's memories of living around the world and growing up as a child of an Air Force serviceperson. Includes author's note, list of Air Force bases, and explanation of the free verse and tanka poetry forms used.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Esther's family moves to a farm during the Great Depression, she soon learns that there are things much more important than that her superstitious mother rarely shows her any affection.
99) Tune it out
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lou Montgomery's life has been centered on her mother's terrifying plan to make her a singing star, but a crisis reveals Lou's sensory processing disorder and people determined to help her address it.
100) Zara's wash day
Author
Publisher
Walker Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"It's wash day and Zara is not excited about wearing her hair in the same styles Mama usually creates. But once Mama takes Zara on a cultural journey to help her understand the significance of each style, wash days will never be the same!"--
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