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Oliver Elephant

2018
A boy, his toy elephant, his mother, and his younger sister go Christmas shopping.
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My papi has a motorcycle

2019
"When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her"--.

Fairy Mom and me

2018
Ella Brook cannot wait to grow up and be a fairy just like her mom, even though her fairy mom's spells often backfire and Ella usually has to come to the rescue with a well-timed suggestion or manual clean-up.

Shouting at the rain

Delsie loves tracking the weather, living with her grandmother, and the support of friends and neighbors, but misses having a "regular family," especially after her best friend outgrows her.
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Gondra's treasure

Gondra, a little dragon, celebrates her uniqueness while talking with her parents about differences between her father's homeland in the East, and her mother's in the West.
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Smart cookie

Frankie creates an online dating profile for her widower father, but discovers that finding the perfect candidate is tougher than she ever expected.

The infinite lives of Maisie Day

On her tenth birthday, super-smart Maisie wakes to a shifted reality and must work within the laws of the universe and trust the love of her family to set the world right. Alternate chapters present divergent timelines.
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Pet dad

2018
Denied a pet, Nell decides her father will do and sets out to train him to sit, fetch, and more but he only responds by barking "No!" until she finds the right reward.
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The perfect secret

2018
"Told from different viewpoints, five seventh-graders, who face their own personal challenges, are also determined as a group to help two very special people reconcile a long-standing dispute"--Provided by publisher.
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The half-true lies of Cricket Cohen

In trouble at home and school again for turning in a not-quite honest memoir, eleven-year-old Cricket and her equally fanciful grandmother, Dodo, set out on a crosstown Manhattan adventure.
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