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1) Families
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Celebrate diversity with a picture book for very young children about the many faces of contemporary families in this companion to Shades of People. Big or small, similar or different-looking, there are all kinds of families. Some have one parent, some have two, and many include extended family. This inclusive look at many varieties of families will help young readers see beyond their own immediate experiences and begin to understand others.
2) Families
Author
Series
Publisher
Abbeville Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The first two volumes in a relaunch of the best-selling series that encourages children to learn about the world by looking at art, and about art by looking at the world How Artists See is a series of interactive, inquiry-based books designed to teach children the art of observation and increase their visual literacy. Each volume presents eighteen diverse works of art, all devoted to a subject that kids know from personal experience. Author Colleen...
3) Families
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Children from diverse families share thoughts about their families and photographs.
4) Families
Author
Series
Publisher
Little Feminist
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Beautiful photos of real-life families showcase all the wonderful forms of family, while poetic text builds both vocabulary and family connection. FAMILIES helps families and educators celebrate gender and ethnicity at home and in the classroom. (Part of We Are Little Feminists - the board book series made for raising intersectional feminists)"--Amazon.com
Author
Language
English
Description
"Squeezed" weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutions for how we might change things. Families today are squeezed on every side--from high childcare costs and harsh employment policies to workplaces without paid family leave or even dependable and regular...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
“A you-can’t-put-it-down book. . . . Alice Adams has found a new way to tell the great American dynasty stories we all love.” —The Washington Post
Alice Adams’ second novel is the portrait of a Southern-born woman as she reviews her life.
From Louisa Calloway’s Southern girlhood to her debut to her first marriage, all the time surrounded by a certain tradition and all...
Alice Adams’ second novel is the portrait of a Southern-born woman as she reviews her life.
From Louisa Calloway’s Southern girlhood to her debut to her first marriage, all the time surrounded by a certain tradition and all...
10) Happy families
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, sixteen-year-old twins Ysabel and Justin share their conflicted feelings as they struggle to come to terms with their father's decision to dress as a woman.
11) Foster families
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Simple text and photographs present foster families, including how family members interact with one another"--Provided by publisher.
13) Blended families
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Simple text and photographs present blended families, including how family members interact with one another"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on reportage Agee did for Fortune magazine in 1936 covering three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama, and Agee's subsequent piece entitled 'Let us now praise famous men,' this work is a rediscovered 30,000-word typescript, published for the first time and is one of the most relevant and honest depictions of poverty in America's South.
Series
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Sir John Balcombe, head of one of the country's largest companies, is found brutally murdered at his home. The Balcombe family shows no sign of grief and the murder is attracting considerable public attention. Morse dislikes the press attention but his mind is brought swiftly back to Balcombe House when a second murder occurs.
Author
Series
Lottie Albright mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The discovery of the body of a young man inside the mausoleum of the Civil War veteran who commissioned this bizarre sculpture park makes the blood of Undersheriff Lottie Albright and her husband's Aunt Dorothy run cold. Dorothy Mercer, paying a visit to Western Kansas from Manhattan, may be a bestselling mystery novelist, but she is truly shocked confronting murder firsthand. But the real bone-chiller is yet to come. With snow coming on, Lottie...
17) Far out families
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Discover how incredible animal families look to one another for survival. Includes bonus program: Cool Cats.
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