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81) The arsonist
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Molly Mavity and Pepper Yusef are dealing with their own personal tragedies when they are tasked by an anonymous person with solving the decades-old murder of Ava Dryman, an East German teenager whose diary was published after her death.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
Description
When Esther's family moves to a farm during the Great Depression, she soon learns that there are things much more important than that her superstitious mother rarely shows her any affection.
86) I wonder
Author
Publisher
Four Elephants Press
Pub. Date
[2013].
Language
English
Description
Eva takes a walk with her mother and encounters a range of mysteries: from gravity, to life cycles, to the vastness of the universe. She learns that it's okay to say "I don't know", and she discovers that there are some things even adults don't know mysteries for everyone to wonder about together!
Author
Publisher
[Independently published]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Maddie and her Mother have a wonderful tradition. When Dad is gone, the two have their own special Tea Time! But when an accident occurs, Maddie learns that the most important part of their Tea Time is the time they get to spend together.
89) Lily and Taylor
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Life is finally beginning to smooth out for Taylor, until her abusive boyfriend Devon shows up and traps her and her best friend Lily in a secluded cabin, with no escape in sight.
90) Planning perfect
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Summer vacation quickly becomes complicated for Felicity Becker as she tries to plan a perfect wedding for her mom, figure out her feelings for her friend Nancy, and wonder what dating will look like for her as an asexual person.--
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Loomer, Texas, twelve-year-old Ivy Green, whose mother may have run off with a charismatic preacher to Panhandle, Florida, and classmate Paul Dobbs, who wants to see a Space Shuttle before the program is scrapped, team up for a summer adventure that is full of surprises.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A novel-in-verse about a 12-year-old Dominican American girl who must keep her love of swimming a secret from her mother, is diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis, and is forced to reimagine the person she is to become.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Sent to her grandmother's estate in Trinidad, Rika meets a group of kids with elemental powers called Minders, who reveal that her long-lost mom is in danger, sending Rika on a magical adventure where she must learn to believe in herself to destroy evil.
95) A mother's love
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The queen turns into a bear after her daughter, Princess Merida, feeds her a spell cake baked by a witch, which Merida hoped would change her mother's mind about finding a husband for her.
97) King of fools
Author
Series
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
With bounties on their heads, Enne continues to play the role of both a lady and a street lord, while Levi begins a relationship with the son of a member of the Mafia.
Author
Series
Poppy Pendle volume 02
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Although her mother, Poppy Pendle, believes magic ruins lives, eleven-year-old Cat Campbell is a late-blooming witch whose magical abilities are bursting to be mastered.
Author
Series
Lou! volume 3
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Lou finds it confusing and difficult to be thirteen, especially with her mother and Richard's romance heating up, being separated from her best friend Mina at school, and getting another letter from Paul when she never answered the first one.
100) Cloud tea monkeys
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When her mother becomes too ill to harvest tea on the nearby plantation, Shenaz is too small to fill in, but when she tells the monkeys she has befriended why she is sad, they bring her a basket filled with rare and valuable wild tea.