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Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Jack Dahl has nothing left. Except his younger brother, Matty, who he'd do anything for. Even die for. Now with their mother gone, and their funds quickly dwindling, Jack needs to make a choice: lose his brother to foster care, or find the drug money that sent his father to prison. He chooses the money. Ava Bardem lives in isolation, a life of silence. For seventeen years her father has controlled her fate. He has taught her to love no one. Trust...
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Language
English
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Description
"A girl longs for her mother's attention. But Mummy is always busy helping everyone else and their children! Day by day, the narrator recalls what it was like growing up with her mother, who was a nanny, as well as a friend, baker, maker, teacher, cleaner and more. As the youngest in her family, the girl stayed home and helped amuse the children her mother looked after. She went along on trips to the Caribbean greengrocer in their Brooklyn neighborhood,...
Author
Series
Too small Tola volume 2
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
520 Acclaimed author and storyteller Atinuke reunites with illustrator Onyinye Iwu for a follow-up to their highly acclaimed first chapter book about a little girl with a mighty will and charm to spare. Too Small Tola lives in an apartment with her clever sister, Moji; her big brother, Dapo; and Grandmommy, who is very bossy. In the first of three endearing new adventures, Tola is sized just right to wriggle under the bed and rescue Grandmommy's...
8) Sed
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Minni vive en la parte más pobre de Mumbai, con acceso limitado a agua potable y horas de espera para usar el grifo comunal. Últimamente, el acceso está amenazado por cortes de agua y, como Minni descubre una noche, por ladrones. Sin embargo, en el edificio donde trabaja al servicio de una familia privilegiada, tienen agua potable y hasta una piscina en el techo. Un día Minni se encuentra con el jefe de la mafia del agua. ¿Debe denunciarlo,...
9) Season one
Author
Series
Wizenard series volume 2
Publisher
Granity Studios
Pub. Date
[2020], 2020
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Dobrai͡a kniga
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Russian
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Poor Johan is miserable when the family's only cow, Emma dies just before Christmas. She was his friend and they have no money to buy another. But when Johan goes out to clear snow, what does he find in the ditch? Maybe he'll have a happy Christmas after all.
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