family life

Twelve-year-old Charles experiences many difficulties in adjusting to a new stepfather, stepsister, and stepbrother.

After giving up her dreams of becoming a professional photographer, high school senior Kenzie Reed tries to appease her parents by taking an interest in the family optometry business and making up a fake boyfriend named Jacob Miller. She learns on their family's trip to Hawaii that her parents have invited her "boyfriend" Jacob along. Playing along with the ruse, Kenzie gets to know the stranger they've invited while exploring the sights and allure of Hawaii, soon realizing their lie may be true love.

Loo did not have a normal childhood, growing up on the run with her father, Samuel Hawley, a career criminal. Now that she is a teenager, Samuel has decided to take her back to his late wife's hometown to start high school and give her a chance at a normal life. However, when Loo starts investigating who her mother really was, she uncovers the dark history of her parents' lives together before she came along, and threatens to bring the demons of her father's past into the present.

After beating up Maurice on the playground, Butterball is forced to see the school therapist.

A young Black girl named Olivia is excited when her paramedic father gets home from work each day, knowing the evening will be filled with food, fun, and stories. But she also worries when he leaves for work every morning, anxious he may not make it back like others she's heard about. The girl and her mother find ways to pass the time during the day, until he safely arrives home once again.

"Ammi has a special visitor, her friend who is an architect and is designing a new mosque. Nadia and Nadir give their suggestions for a playroom and a reading nook at the new Islamic center and learn about Islamic art and architecture"--Back cover.

"When Nadia and Nadir have nothing to do one summer afternoon they decide to follow a video tutorial to make their own slime. They learn to follow rules for safe play and try to convince their parents to allow them to sell homemake slime to save up for supplies"--Back cover.

Lu was born to be co-captain of the Defenders. Well, actually, he was born albino, but that's got nothing to do with being a track star. Lu has swagger, plus the talent to back it up. No one's going to outshine him. Lu knows he can lead Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and the team to victory at the championships, but it might not be as easy as it seems. Suddenly, there are hurdles in Lu's way, literally and not-so-literally, and Lu needs to figure out, fast, what winning the gold really means.

When eleven-year-old foster kid Mo finds a handmade cookbook filled with someone else's family recipes, she collects the stories behind them and builds a website to share them, secretly hoping a long-lost relative will find her and give her a family recipe all her own.

Even though it was not easy at first, Lily learns to how to embrace Mommy's new friend Carl as a member of her family.