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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.
3) Young Mungo
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A story of queer love and working-class families, Young Mungo is the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize–winning author of Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart’s first novel Shuggie Bain, winner of the 2020 Booker Prize, is one of the most successful literary debuts of the century so far. Published or forthcoming in forty territories, it has sold more than one million copies worldwide. Now Stuart returns with
Young Mungo, his extraordinary...
Douglas Stuart’s first novel Shuggie Bain, winner of the 2020 Booker Prize, is one of the most successful literary debuts of the century so far. Published or forthcoming in forty territories, it has sold more than one million copies worldwide. Now Stuart returns with
Young Mungo, his extraordinary...
4) Split
Author
Series
Publisher
J. Lorimer
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After her mother suddenly leaves her family for good, Sandra is left behind with her alcoholic father -- and a lot of anger. At first, Sandra is more concerned with getting a job and getting on with her life, but then the people around her start pushing Sandra to at least try to find her missing mother. What will Sandra say to her mother if they are reunited? And how do you find a person who may not want to be found?
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
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...
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