mothers and sons

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Don't laugh, Joe

1997
Mother Possum is in despair because her son cannot learn to play dead without laughing.

The most perfect spot

2006
Jack tries to have a perfect picnic with his mother, but things do not turn out as they expected.

Poppy's return

2005
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.

Let the good times roll with Pirate Pete and Pirate Joe

2004
Pirate Pete and Pirate Joe visit the Pirate Queen and have fun playing games and going to Disco Dan's House of Pins until it is bedtime and the Pirate Queen becomes just their mother once again.

Owen Foote, frontiersman

1999
Second grader Owen Foote is looking forward to spending time with his friend Joseph in their tree fort, until some bullies visiting his neighbor, Mrs. Gold, threaten to wreck the fort.

No new pants!

1999
When his mother takes him to buy new pants, a young boy tries on many different pairs, but finds just what he wants back at home. Includes "Phonics Guidelines.".

The cloak society

2012
Alex Knight, a twelve-year-old in training to be a supervillain in the elite Cloak Society, becomes friends with a young superhero and begins to question where his loyalty lies.

Johnny Swanson

2011
In 1929 England, eleven-year-old Johnny Swanson helps his widowed mother by starting a newspaper advertising scam, which leads him to a real-life murder mystery that places his mother in mortal danger.

Artemis Fowl

the graphic novel
2007
A graphic novel adaptation of Eoin Colfer's novel in which a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold; but the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.

Leepike ridge

2007
While his widowed mother continues to search for him, eleven-year-old Tom, presumed dead after drifting away down a river, finds himself trapped in a series of underground caves with another survivor and a dog, and pursued by murderous treasure-hunters.

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