sisters

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Kira-kira

2005
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.

The Wright sister

Katharine Wright and her famous brothers
2003
Presents a brief biography of the sister of Orville and Wilbur Wright.

At the sign of the Sugared Plum

2003
In June 1665, excited at the prospect of coming to London to work at her sister Sarah's candy shop, teenaged Hannah is unconcerned about rumors of Plague until, as the hot summer advances and increasing numbers of people succumb to the disease, she and Sarah find themselves trapped in the city with no means of escape.

Return of the gypsy witch

2003
Twelve-year-old Allie, kid sister of a private eye and hungry for a real mystery of her own, suspects foul play in an alleged hit-and-run after opening the deceased's briefcase and finding five extremely valuable issues of the comic book "Gypsy Witch.".

The promised land

1996
Orphaned by their mother's death, two Irish Catholic sisters find a home with a kind Protestant couple on the Kansas frontier, but their new life is suddenly threatened by the appearance of their uncle, who is determined to take them back to New York and their "true" religion.

Nora

maybe a ghost story
1993
While Nora and her younger sister Patsy deal with their father's plans to remarry and their competition over a new boy at school, Nora alone senses the presence of her mother who died three years before.

The journey home

1990
Two orphan sisters in the late 1800s leave New York on the orphan train to seek a new home in the West.

Riding the bus with my sister

a true life journey
2003
Rachel Simon chronicles the experiences she had and shares the lessons she learned during the year she spent riding the bus which her mentally handicapped sister rides on each day.

Magic and other misdemeanors

2007
Fairy-tale detectives Sabrina and Daphne Grimm try to find out who is stealing the magical possessions of the most powerful Everafters in town.

How to be a baby, by me, the big sister

2007
An all-knowing big sister gives her baby sibling lessons in being a baby.

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