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…be great for younger readers to DEAR, or perhaps for a fun family readaloud. Ramona Quimby, age 8 by Beverly Cleary Confronting good times and bad times during her third-grade……year, Ramona Quimby rediscovers the strength and durability of her loving family. Newbery Honor Book. Reissue. Be real, Macy Weaver by Lakita Wilson Determined to find a new best friend……author extraordinaire by Susan Tan A biracial young writer begins penning her memoirs in the hope that her family will not forget about her when a new baby sibling arrives,……her family and best friend, Josh, to navigate problems using words and humor. Marya Khan and the incredible henna party by Saadia Faruqi When she claims she’s having the most…

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…cousin’s innocence. He may be a jerk, but he’s still family. And there’s no way her flesh and blood could actually be a murderer…right? The family chao : a novel……in the Sullivan family finds themselves doubting all they hold dear, in this unputdownable comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the deep-fried love that……family fifteen years ago, claiming that his recent purchase of a local winery shows that he’s back on his feet and ready to give back to the Shady Palms community….…carries on by Uzma Jalaluddin When the halal restaurant where she waitresses is threatened by new competition, a rising podcaster uncovers a long-buried family secret and falls for a rival…

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…clues the police cannot find. Coven by Jennifer Dugan When her family‘s coven members back east are murdered under mysterious circumstances, Emsy, a fire elemental, returns to upstate New York……to find the killer before her family becomes their next target. The drowned woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones The last living water diviner, 18-year-old Mererid joins forces with her old handler……a devastating loss. Labyrinth lost by Zoraida Córdova Alex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her family. But she’s hated magic ever since it made her father……disappear into thin air. When a curse she performs to rid herself of magic backfires and her family vanishes, she must travel to Los Lagos, a land in-between as dark…

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…refugee as she slowly becomes radicalized while searching for a better life for her family throughout the Middle East. The ashfire king by Chelsea Abdullah “After fleeing a patricidal prince,……deeply moving family story about identity, faith, and belonging set in the Muslim immigrant enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn following three siblings coming of age over the course of one……Ramadan. A gorgeously written, intimate family story and a polyphonic portrait of life under the specter of Islamophobia, Between Two Moons challenges the reader to interrogate their own assumptions, asking……questions of allegiance to faith, family, and community, and what it means to be a young Muslim in America. The dream hotel : a novel by Laila Lalami After a…

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…Museum, Ames Mansion Historic Site and Weir Farm National Historic Site. Six paintings of the interior of American Impressionist Julian Alden Weir’s Connecticut home, painted during her residency there, were……purchased by Weir Farm National Historic Site. Since moving here she has won an Honorary Mention at the Guild of Boston Artists, Best in Show at Newburyport Art Association and……company name is a direct reflection of Renate’s heritage. Born in Germany, Renate moved with her family to Venezuela when she was a small child. She received a formal education…

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…MVLC. Schneider Family Book Award: The Schneider Family Book Awards, selected by a committee of the American Library Association (ALA), honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies……Life? With Carson Tueller: “Carson Tueller joined Jonathan to explain what ableism is, how he came out to his family after serving his LDS mission, and why investing in accessibility……copes with family and relationships while anticipating his final homecoming game.” Not available on DVD but is streaming on Netflix; can be accessed by borrowing MHL’s Roku with Netflix access….…card. When I Walk: “In 2006, 25-year-old Jason DaSilva was on vacation at the beach with family when, suddenly, he fell down. He couldn’t get back up. His legs had…

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…Castillo An award-winning poet chronicles his experiences of growing up undocumented in the United States, describing how his family and his attempt to establish an adult life were heartbreakingly complicated……pope : a memoir by Obed Silva The author, in this wrenching, dazzling, revelatory debut, chronicles his father’s lifelong battle with alcoholism and the havoc it wreaked on his family,……her sexual orientation and inaccurate cultural beliefs about psychological trauma. In the country we love : my family divided by Diane Guerrero The star of Orange is the New Black……Contreras Interweaving spellbinding family stories, resurrected Colombian history and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, the author shares her inheritance of the secrets–the power to talk…

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…his children, drama at the playground and the musings of a single dad trying to navigate having it all. Fun home : a family tragicomic by Alison Bechdel An unusual……memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father, a historic……preservation expert dedicated to restoring the family‘s Victorian home, funeral home director, high-school English teacher, and closeted homosexual. Gender queer / : A Memoir by Maia Kobabe In 2014, Maia……crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gayfan fiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as…

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…new love, a murderous gangster and changes in his sense of identity. Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo Follows the lives of several generations of women in the Marte family after……Jose Older Visited by an ancestral spirit who would have him unearth family secrets from the Cuban Revolution, a young Cuban-American embarks on an investigation marked by ghostly helpers, a……Fleeing to Miami after political violence consumes their native Kingston, a younger son of a Jamaican family, Trelawny, struggles to carve out a place for himself amid financial disaster, racism……to set up her own royal court in Italy during the Regency era, where she became a popular member of royal European society. These ghosts are family : a novel…

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…family and their bizarre family dynamic where her greatest performance will be for her life. Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James This second book in the The Dark Star……professional success in Detroit while navigating real friendships, Grindr hookups and family drama in the debut novel from the author of How to Live in Detroit without Being a Jackass….…human emotion. Memphis : a novel by Tara M. Stringfellow Told over the course of 70 years, this spellbinding debut novel traces three generations of a Southern Black family and……one daughter, who, channeling her rage into art, discovers with the power of her paint brush, she can change her family‘s legacy. Miss Aldridge regrets by Louise Hare In 1936…

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