Winner of the 2010 John Newbery Medal Four mysterious letters change Miranda's world forever. By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it's safe...
Fatherless families
-
Author:Stead, RebeccaSummary: - Author:Adeyoha, AngelSummary:
It's Father's Day craft time in Akilah and Kai's class, but they don't have dads! So, they hatch a plan to create a special club. It's for all the kids in their grade who don't have a dad, but want to...
- Author:Bhat, ShashiSummary:
When Mira Acharya's father dies, the challenges facing her Indo-Canadian family become that much more daunting. Ravi, her autistic older brother, requires special care but longs to be just like other children. Their mother must...
- Author:Peel, JenniferSummary:
He never wanted to leave her. She never expected him to return.If Ariana Stanton has learned anything in life, it's that men leave. She's been taught this lesson well from the father she's never met, who sends her a...
- Author:Demers, JulieSummary:
A little girl with a beard must find herself a home in this contemporary fairy tale. It's 1944, and an eleven-year-old girl lives with her parents in a little village in rural Quebec. Her mother is very sad, and her father has vanished...
- Author:Lamarche, ClaudeSummary:
«J’ai cinq ans et j’m’ai tué», a dit un personnage célèbre. Rafaëlle aussi a cinq ans, mais elle ne s’est pas tuée. Du moins, pas encore. Rafaëlle est une fillette exceptionnelle. Dotée d’une intelligence et d’une sensibilité hors du...
- Author:Li, ChristinaSummary:
This #ownvoices debut about losing and finding family, forging unlikely friendships, and searching for answers to big questions will resonate with fans of Erin Entrada Kelly and Rebecca Stead. The only thing Rosalind Ling Geraghty loves...
-
Author:Weston, Robert PaulSummary:She walks in with her music and out with his heart Kaz Barrett should be saving for college. Instead, he saves his pay from the Sit ’n’ Spin Laundromat to send his mother to an expensive sleep clinic in New York. She suffers from a rare...
