Catalog Search Results
1) How to find a four-leaf clover: what Autism can teach us about difference, connection, and belonging
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
A special-education teacher with thirty years of experience working with autistic people gives readers a deeper understanding of and appreciation for the neurodiverse community and looks at ways we can develop more meaningful connections with others.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
You knew what you signed up for. These words are often directed at military spouses, yet the true depth of what it will mean to be married to a service member is seldom fully grasped. In Milspouse Matters: Sharing Strength Through Our Stories, readers are immersed in the captivating world of military spouse life, unearthing the challenges and triumphs faced by those who leave behind the familiar to embrace a life of constant change.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Dave Kindred's extraordinary investigation of the death of his grandson yields a powerful memoir of addiction, grief, and the stories we choose to tell our families and ourselves. Jared Kindred left his home and family at the age of eighteen, choosing a life of riding train cars and making friends on the street. He was an addict for most of his short life, drinking far too much and lying about it he was ultimately killed by an overdose. Yet he inspired...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Explores how to process and cope with the divorce of one's parents. Additional features include a table of contents, sidebars, an infographic, Fast Facts, questions to inspire further thought, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research"--
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Description
In 2019, a Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent who reported in over 150 countries, many in violent upheaval, was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor, which gave him the strength to face more personal conflicts, in this unforgettable final dispatch that reveals how facing the unknown can change our relationship to the world around us.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Theo is good at most things. He can almost count to a thousand, knows several French words, and can operate the washing machine. But he can't lie or steal. 'You must try harder,' says his mother sternly. The Pincher Family love to steal things. It's what they are born for! When his parents leave to visit the diamond exhibition, Theo's heart sinks. After breaking Grandma out of prison (his little sister needs someone to read her bedtime story),...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Grayson Hayes doesn't remember things as well as he used to, but he's sure his time is running out. Diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's, he realizes he has a small window of time left to right a terrible injustice -- he just can't remember what it is. Convinced of the importance of his mission, he embarks on a journey to the small West Virginia town of his childhood hoping he can put together the fractured pieces of his memory and set things right....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
"It's the most wonderful time of the year - for everyone except Starr Lewis. As if going home for the holidays jobless and single wasn't bad enough, she's dragged into a holiday season full of activities leading up to her sister's uber-romantic Christmas Eve wedding - to Starr's ex-boyfriend. But when her brother's best friend, Waylon Emmerson, attends their family Thanksgiving, she starts to wonder if maybe coming home for Christmas isn't so bad...
Author
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Maddie is left reeling after the unexpected passing of her beloved father. No one has any idea why he betrayed them all so spectacularly, but that's exactly what his death feels like: a betrayal. With their world shattered, Maddie's grieving mother sends her to spend a few months with her grandparents, thinking a change of scenery will do her good. Susan and Frank, Maddie's grandparents, are heartbroken over the loss of their son,...
Author
Publisher
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Compassionate, groundbreaking, and urgently needed, Stand By Me provides caregivers with new ways to juggle the responsibilities and emotional ups and downs of caregiving. As the founder of the only devoted Caregivers Clinic in the country, clinical psychologist Dr. Allison Applebaum is no stranger to the intensity of being an unpaid, untrained family caregiver. She also understands that it is often the strength and well-being of these very caregivers-the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Amicus Learning
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Meet Gracen! She likes karate and ice skating. Her dad is in the military. Gracen is real and so are her experiences with moving often and having her dad away from home. Learn about her life in this illustrated narrative nonfiction picture book for elementary students"--
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023
Formats
Description
This is the story of a beleaguered young noblewoman raising her stepchildren on her own...until she dies and wakes up in the past with the chance to remake her life! The marchioness Shuri Von Neuschwanstein was just a teenager when her husband died, leaving her to manage his lands and raise his children--even though she was young enough to be their sibling. Despite her dedication to her duties, other nobles conspired against her, and her stepchildren...
14) Spy kids
Publisher
Dimension Home Video, Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
When their international spy parents are kidnapped by children's television program host Fegan Floop, Carmen and Juni Cortez must criss-cross the globe in a quest to save their parents.
15) All my secrets
Author
Series
Gilded age volume 1
Description
"New York, 1898. The only thing more shocking than Arthur Stanhope III's unexpected death is the revelation that his will bestows his company -- and most of the vast fortune that goes with it -- to the nearest male heir, leaving his mother, wife, and daughter nearly impoverished. His widow, Sylvia, quickly realizes she must set aside her grief to ensure their daughter, Adelaide, is launched into society as soon as the appropriate mourning period passes....
Didn't Find It?
If we don't have what you're looking for, you have 3 options: ask us to bring it in from another library (interlibrary loan), suggest the library purchase it, or call us for assistance.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? You can suggest the library purchase it by submitting a request, or you might find it through our interlibrary loan service. See your options at https://readokaloosa.org/requests. Purchase Suggestion