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Author
Series
Llama Llama (Picture books) volume 5
Language
English
Description
Llama Llama's mother takes good care of him when he has to stay home from school because he is sick, but when Mama Llama begins to feel sick, too, Llama Llama knows how to take care of her.
Author
Series
Llama Llama (Picture books) volume 2
Language
English
Description
A young llama wants to play but must go shopping with his mother instead, and so he gets angry and makes a mess at the store.
8) Son
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 4
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
9) Owl babies
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
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Description
Three baby owls awake one night to find their mother gone, and wonder where she is. They greet her return with joyous celebration.
Author
Series
Llama Llama (Picture books) volume 1
Language
English
Description
At bedtime, a little llama worries after his mother puts him to bed and goes downstairs.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Donna Barba Higuera's Lupe Wong Won't Dance and Aida Salazar's The Moon Within, comes Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice -- a contemporary middle grade novel full of spunk and activist heart. Manuela Mani Semilla wants two things: to get her period, and to thwart her mom's plan of taking her to Guatemala, a place that has always been more of a mystery than an answer. Mani can't imagine leaving behind Las Nerdas, her band of misfit friends,...
15) Baby squeaks
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Baby mouse has learned to squeak. And now it's squeak, squeak, squeak all day long. Baby chats with new friends and old friends, big friends and little friends, and sometimes just chats with no one at all. Poor Mama needs a break...but when Baby wanders off, Mama knows what to do: follow the squeaks!"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Bliss Walker has been stuck in a home that doesn't feel like hers for six years. Ever since Mama dropped her off and never came back. Then, the summer before her senior year of high school, two things happen: Mama returns out of the blue, and Bliss meets Blake, a boy who listens like everything she has to say is worth hearing. It should be a dream come true. But as the summer spins on, Bliss finds herself facing a painful choice:...
17) We could fly
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"At a sparrow's urging, a young girl feels a mysterious trembling in her arms, a lightness in her feet, a longing to be free. Her mother tells her that her Granny Liza experienced the same, as did many of their people before her. Perhaps it's time, Mama says, to slip the bonds of earth and join the journey started long ago. To hold each other tight and rise. Drawing on lyrics from the song "We Could Fly" by Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell, which...
19) Mami
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
¡Mami abraza! ¡Mami besa! ¡Mami se ríe! Bebé celebra a una mami muy especial con humor y cariño.
Every day is Mother's Day as the inimitable Baby sings Mommy's praises in a board book full of humor and heart.
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