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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everything Olivia Grayson touches in the business world turns to gold. Now, though, she reflects upon her life, and wishes she'd invested in her family as much as she did in her business. Eager to atone for past sins, Olivia does her utmost to support each of her children as they struggle through mid-life crises. While one of her sons is unhappily married to a cold, domineering woman, the other is completely oblivious to his son's struggles as a gay...
Author
Series
Llama Llama volume 5
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Llama Llama's mother takes good care of him when he has to stay home from school because he is sick, so when Mama Llama begins to feel sick, too, Llama Llama knows how to take care of her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Troll
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A mother and child discuss how the mother's love would remain constant even if her child were a stinky skunk, scary ape, or bug-eating green alien.
6) Owl babies
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three owl babies whose mother has gone out in the night try to stay calm while she is gone.
7) Snow bears
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Physical Desc
[28] p. : col. ill. ; 26 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
When three little bears play in the snow, they pretend to be "snow bears" and their mother goes along with the game.
8) Chouette
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tiny is pregnant. Her husband is delighted. "You think this baby is going to be like you, but it's not like you at all," she warns him. "This baby is an owl-baby." When Chouette is born small and broken-winged, Tiny works around the clock to meet her daughter's needs. Left on her own to care for a child who seems more predatory bird than baby, Tiny vows to raise Chouette to be her authentic self. Even in those times when Chouette's behaviors grow...
Author
Series
Llama Llama volume 1
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
At bedtime, a little llama worries after his mother puts him to bed and goes downstairs.
10) Into the snow
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Expression of the sensations a day playing in the snow, ending with the warmth of home, mom and - of course - hot chocolate.
11) Mothers
Author
Publisher
Pebble Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Simple text and photographs present mothers and how they interact with their families"--Provided by publisher.
13) Webster J. Duck
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Webster J. Duck turns to several animals when he tries to find his mother.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"'I had but one delusion, which I held onto with all my willpower: we once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I'm doing it over again, this time by words.' In a world created outside of time, Li and the son who died talk about their lives. Deeply intimate and moving, this story cycle of grief captures the love and humor in a relationship which goes on now in a mother's heart, between a mother and child, even as it captures the pain of Li's...
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize what she was actually trying to write: how this affected her relationship with her mother. When it was finally published, the essay went viral, shared on social media by Anne Lamott, Rebecca Solnit, and many others. The outpouring of responses gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers a candid...
16) Mommy mine
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Whether it is by croak, flutter, or fur, all children claim their mothers as their own.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ten months after her mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book takes a trip to London. The city was a favorite of her mother's, and as the narrator wanders the streets, she finds herself reflecting on her mother's life and their relationship. Thoughts of the past meld with questions of the future: Back in New England, the family home is now up for sale, its considerable contents already winnowed. The woman, a writer, recalls all that...
18) Godshot
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it's an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret "assignments," to bring the rain everybody is praying for....
Author
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"In Motherhood, Marchiano draws from a deep well of Jungian analysis and symbolic research to present a collection of fairytales, myths, and fables that evoke the spiritual arc of raising a child from infancy through adulthood"--
20) Close your eyes
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[34] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A mother tiger entices her child to sleep by telling of all that can been seen with one's eyes closed.
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