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1) Son
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Giver quartet volume 4
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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.
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After their two-week family tour of Los Angeles, ten-year-old Feng Li Lin and her older brother and sister learn they will remain in California while their parents return to Taiwan, forcing them to navigate a new school, a new language, bullies, racism, and the pressures of running a household.
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Papa est arrivé de loin. Son avion a atterri.
Il est enfin revenu. Et s'il n'aimait plus jouer au hockey ? S'il n'aimait plus manger des frites ?
Et si... et s'il ne me reconnaissait pas ? Ça fait tellement longtemps...
Un album important sur l'absence qui s'étire, l'attente, la peur et le retour à la maison des militaires qui sont parfois traumatisés et blessés.
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Piper Green and the fairy tree volume 1
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"Piper's older brother leaves Peek-A-Book Island and Piper refuses to take off his old earmuffs, no matter what! Things are going from bad to worse... until she discovers The Fairy Tree"--Provided by publisher.
12) I wish you knew
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After Estrella's father is deported because he is an illegal immigrant, her teacher at school invites her and the other students to meet around an old oak tree and share the things they wished their teacher knew about their life at home.
16) The train
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Celebrating Indigenous Picture Books-- IBBY's 'From Sea to Sea to Sea" 2021
Indigenous History: Children and Families
November Is Picture Book Month!
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Children
Indigenous History: Children and Families
November Is Picture Book Month!
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Children
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Author Jodie Callaghan worked as a journalist at the time of the Canadian government's apology for the residential school system. She took inspiration for this book from her conversations with survivors--including her own grandmother's experience at Indian day school, and memories shared with her by a man she interviewed by the train tracks that transported children to residential school in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. Jodie's story for The Train was...
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In New York City in the 1960s, Missy's mother has gone back to school to pursue her dream of becoming an artist, and her father works in advertising and takes Missy on secret midnight excursions so she can share his love of jazz. The poems Missy and her father write for each other gradually become an exchange of apologies as her father's substance addictions begin to take over their lives. Missy has to leave her old apartment, her school, her best...
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Kelly twins (Johanna Hurwitz) volume 1
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Second-graders Arlene and Ilene Kelly are twins, identical twins to be exact, and they love being a pair. They love to dress alike, they have identical pet ferrets, and they do everything together. But being a twin is not always easy. And when Arlene gets sick and has to visit the hospital, the twins each find out what it's like to be one instead of two. But whether they're together or apart, Arlene and Ilene know they're lucky to have each other....
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