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Accidental adventures volume 1
Language
English
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As the children of two world-famous explorers, eleven-year-old twins Celia and Oliver prefer television-watching to adventure-seeking until their father takes them to Tibet to help search for their long-lost mother.
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English
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Eleven-year-old Liv fights to change the middle school dress code requiring girls to wear a skirt and, along the way, finds the courage to tell his moms he is meant to be a boy.
Technically, Olivia is not a girl, even though he was born as a girl. He's transgender. Liv knows he was always meant to be a boy. But at Bankridge Middle School, the dress code means he can't wear pants. Only skirts. So Operation: Pants Project begins! To Liv, this isn't...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Another graphic novel in this fun series spin-off of The Baby-sitters Club, featuring Kristy's little stepsister!
It's Karen's birthday! She can't wait for all those presents. Karen is even going to have two parties — one at Daddy's house and one at Mommy's. But what Karen really wants for her birthday is one big party and to celebrate the special day with her whole family together. Will Karen's birthday wish come true?
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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When her mother goes on a business trip, a little girl, who loves to sit between Mama and Mommy at the table, misses her a lot and feels empty until Mommy finally comes home, filling the void with love.
8) Weekend dad
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
""This home is home because my dad is here, and it's nothing like home because my mom isn't here," thinks the boy in this story when he enters his dad's new apartment for the first time. His dad moved out on Monday and now it's Friday night, the start of his weekend with his dad. The boy and his dad follow their normal weekend routine -- they eat eggs for breakfast, play cards and spend time at the park. And then they do the same things on Sunday....
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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When Heather goes to playgroup, at first she feels bad because she has two mothers and no father, but then she learns that there are lots of different kinds of families and the most important thing is that all the people love each other.
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Series
Two lies and a spy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Kari juggles saving her spy parents while impressing the guy she has been in love with forever.
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Series
Family Fletcher novels volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Relates the adventures of a family with two fathers, four adopted boys, and a variety of pets as they make their way through a school year, Kindergarten through sixth grade, and deal with a grumpy new neighbor.
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English
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She's a portrait artist whose paintings alter people's bodies, which is a talent some would kidnap, blackmail, and worse to control. Guarding that secret is the only way to keep her younger sister safe now that their parents are gone. But one frigid night, the governor's wife discovers the truth and threatens to expose Myra is she does not complete a special portrait that would resurrect the governor's dead son. Once she arrives at the legendary...
15) Out of my shell
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
While still upset that her parents have separated and that her father will not be joining their family vacation in Florida, twelve-year-old Olivia must decide if she has the courage to fight when the local sea turtle population is endangered.
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Push
Pub. Date
©2015.
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English
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"Tretch Farm lives in a very small town where everybody's in everybody else's business. Which makes it hard for him to be in love with his best friend, Matt Gooby. Matt has two gay dads, but isn't all that gay himself--which doesn't stop Tretch from loving him anyway" --
17) Daddy & Dada
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A little girl explains how families, including hers, come in many shapes and sizes-some with a mom and a dad, some with two dads, some with two moms, and more"--
18) Plenty of hugs
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Illustrations and gently rhyming text follow two mothers and their toddler on a sunny day.
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Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Follows thirteen-year-old neurodivergent Maudie during an eventful summer in California with her father, where she struggles with whether to share a terrible secret about life with her mom and stepdad.
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