Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole life is on fire, though. Charlie Vega is a lot of things. Smart. Funny. Artistic. Ambitious. Fat. People sometimes have a problem with that...
Mothers and daughters
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Author:Goerzen, ChristySummary:Fifteen-year-old Maddie has big-city dreams, and she’s found her chance to visit New York. An art magazine is holding a portrait contest, and the first prize is an all-expenses-paid trip to the Big Apple. Maddie plans to win, but her...
- Author:Sanford Blades, SusanSummary:
Fake it so Real takes on the fallout from a punk-rock lifestyle--the future of "no future"--and its effect on the subsequent generations of one family. In June of 1983, Gwen, a gnarly Nancy Spungen look-alike, meets Damian, the...
- Author:Kinsella, SophieSummary:
Fairies, unicorns and magical wishes combine in this third book of the Fairy Mom and Me series from New York Times bestselling author Sophie Kinsella! Ella's one wish is to become a fairy like her mom. She dreams of the day she...
- Author:Kinsella, SophieSummary:
Fans of Sophie Kinsella's sparkling humor will love her first ever illustrated series for young readers about the charming adventures of a mother-daughter fairy duo! Ella Brook can't wait to grow up, because one day she will...
- Author:Kinsella, SophieSummary:
Discover more magical adventures with your little one in this fourth book of the Fairy Mom and Me series from New York Times bestselling author Sophie Kinsella. Ella's family has a BIG secret - her mom is a fairy! Ella's dream...
- Author:Kinsella, SophieSummary:
The favorite mother-daughter fairy team is back! Glittery wings, magic codes and multiplying ice cream cones combine in these next adventures from New York Times bestselling author Sophie Kinsella. Ella Brook is used to being a fairy in...
- Author:Ho, JoannaSummary:
This lyrical and stunning book tells a story about learning to love and celebrate your Asian-shaped eyes, in the of spirit of Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry. A young Asian girl notices that her eyes look different from her peers'....
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Author:Rudin, PhyllisSummary:Evie Troy, an impulsive and funny young Jewish woman, has a tendency to overcomplicate things. And that can get her into trouble. When her dying friend Jean-Gabriel, a successful and controversial francophone writer, cons her into...
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Author:Younge-Ullman, DanielleSummary:Then Ingrid traveled all over Europe with her opera star mother, Margot-Sophia. Life was beautiful and bright, and every day soared with music. Now Ingrid is on a summertime wilderness survival trek for at-risk teens: addicts, runaways...
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Author:Stevenson, RobinSummary:Lou's dad has been addicted to painkillers since an accident left him unable to work. He's a good, loving dad, but kind of useless. Lou's mother, Zoe, a successful novelist, abandoned Lou at birth and showed no interest in her until...
- Author:Vlassopoulos, TeriSummary:
My father drowned in the Aegean Sea, fifty nautical miles northeast of the port of Piraeus. When it happened, my mother and I were at home in Toronto. It was early evening in Greece, afternoon for us, and I was at school when she found...
- Author:Lemaire, HuguetteSummary:
C’est avec enthousiasme que Huguette Lemaire nous livre son premier livre, Enveloppez-moi de vos ailes… Elle s’est laissée tenter par la merveilleuse aventure qu’est l’écriture pour nous transporter dans l’univers d’une femme qui doit...
- Author:Tremblay d'Essiambre, LouiseSummary:
Voici le deuxième tome tant attendu de la trilogie Les sœurs Deblois écrite par Louise Tremblay-d’Essiambre. Déjà quatorze années se sont écoulées depuis l’époque où Charlotte découvrait, petite fille, que les membres de sa famille et...
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Author:Narsimhan, MahtabSummary:Even though she only left Mumbai a few months ago, Shivani isn't feeling like such an outsider anymore. She likes her new school. She finally has a best friend. But when her mother volunteers for the school's annual fundraiser...
- Author:Gentile, LeslieSummary:
It's the summer of 1978 and most people think Elvis Presley has been dead for a year. But eleven-year-old Truly knows Elvis is alive and well and living in her trailer park. It's a busy summer. Though Truly's mother is constantly...
- Author:Hearon, ShelbySummary:
Terrell has asked her sister Ella to conceal Terrell's adulterous affair from the family. When Terrell dies in a plane crash just hours later en route to meet her lover, the lie takes on a life of its own, and Ella eventually finds...
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Author:Harvey, Sarah N. N.Summary:Después de la muerte de su tía, Emily se entera de que todo lo que siempre ha creído es una mentira y su mundo entero se derrumba. Obligada a enfrentar el hecho de que madre no es quien ella creía, Emily trata de descubrir la verdad...
- Author:Mazigh, MoniaSummary:
1984 : les émeutes du pain — 2010 : la Révolution du jasmin. Deux périodes tumultueuses vécues à près de trente ans de distance par une mère et sa fille. Nadia quitte sa Tunisie natale pendant les émeutes qui secouent le pays en 1984....
- Author:Meginnis, MikeSummary:
When the world shares the same dream of being guided to a water death by a loved one Nov. 1st, Lyd and her daughter only have a few months left to navigate a changed world and conniving father.
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