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In rhyming text, a little boy and girl and their parents enjoy home traditions and church celebrations on Easter.

The mysterious disappearance of a friend's precious charm sets sassy and savvy sleuth Alana Oakley on the warpath. But Alana quickly realizes that having Attitude with a capital "A" isn't enough to solve the case. She invokes her savvy self to duel with the military-inspired Coach Kusmuk, dodge the over-exuberant Nurse Cathy, and deal with her impulsive and accident-prone mother, who is one click away from Internet-dating a mass murderer! The biggest mystery of all: What spectacular disaster will her mother have planned for her birthday this year?.

"Makayla's family is about to change with her baby brother's arrival. She goes on a mission to see how families are each unique. Readers discover how families are different and that different is great!"--Provided by publisher.

On the eve of his fiftieth birthday, Journalist Mark Woods deciees to reconnect with nature, spending the year visiting national parks, but his mother's unexpected terminal cancer diagnosis has him reflecting deeper, on the future of the great outdoors, family, and the legacies we leave behind.

Looks at the life of Liberian-American author and social entrepreneur, Way?tu Moore.

A young Hawaiian girl named Lilo adopts a strange dog that turns out to be an alien on the run from his government.

After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.

Single aspiring Indian Candian baker Reena Manji asks the Muslim neighbor her meddling parents are trying to set her up with, to pretend to be engaged to her so that she can enter a television cooking competition for couples and win a scholarship to a top culinary school. Reena and the neighbor Nadim fall for one another off-screen but their parental relationships present challenges they'll need to overcome.

Follows three generations of a rural Kentucky family as they are saved by the kindness of others amidst the hardships of their lives, beginning with a thirteen-year-old girl living in Depression-era Kentucky, who is sold to another man by her father during a poker game, down to her grandson Samuel, whose eye was injured when he was young and who is trying to find meaning in his adult life.

Recounts the experiences of two families--Gee, a black teenager and his mother Jade, and Noelle, a half-white, half-Hispanic teenager and her mother Lacey May--whose lives intersect when a referendum passes allowing black students to be bussed to a predominantly white North Carolina high school.