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Fatherless families

  • When you reach me
    Author:
    Stead, Rebecca
    Summary:

    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...
  • The zero dads club
    Author:
    Adeyoha, Angel
    Summary:

    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...
  • The family took shape
    Author:
    Bhat, Shashi
    Summary:

    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...
  • Return to sender
    Author:
    Peel, Jennifer
    Summary:

    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...
  • Little beast
    Author:
    Demers, Julie
    Summary:

    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...
  • Je ne me tuerai plus jamais
    Author:
    Lamarche, Claude
    Summary:

    «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...
  • Clues to the universe
    Author:
    Li, Christina
    Summary:

    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...
  • Blues for Zoey
    Author:
    Weston, Robert Paul
    Summary:

    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...
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