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"Left on the train platform of some strange village, eight-year-old Saffron Faith Anders is certain her father will return shortly, just like he promised. She holds out hope as the hour grows late and the station sets to close. She clings to her suitcase like a life raft. When a peculiar old woman carrying a large umbrella approaches and inquires about her situation, Saffron doesn't immediately trust the imposing do-gooder, but eventually does agree...
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Ballantine Books/One World
Pub. Date
c2005
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Catherine Sanderson and her daughter, Phoebe, have always been as close as a mother and daughter could be, except for one secret between them: the identity of Phoebe's father. Catherine, busy working with refugee and immigrant women through her small firm, Babylon Sisters, has taken on a powerful new client. She doesn't have much time for Phoebe's complicated questions of paternity-that is, until Phoebe's real father, B. J., a renowned investigative...
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Pub. Date
2005
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For nearly two decades, since the publication of her iconic first novel, The Good Mother, Sue Miller has distinguished herself as one of our most elegant and widely celebrated chroniclers of family life, with a singular gift for laying bare the interior lives of her characters. In each of her novels, Miller has written with exquisite precision about the experience of grace in daily life–the sudden, epiphanic recognition of the extraordinary...
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Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
©2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
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"Lalo Lesperance lives with his older brother and mother in a low-income apartment building in Fort Myers. They moved there from a subdivision after the family lost Lalo's father. School isn't so great because Lalo is known as the boy who can't remember anything and needs help in his classes. But when the COVID lockdown hits, he finds himself sharing virtual classes and a laptop with Vivi, a neighbor kid his age who gets perfect grades.
Quarantine...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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Amber's Japanese father left when she was little, and her sister Bella was just a baby, so now she fills in the frustrating gap in her life with imagined conversations, and writes letters to Bella that seem to come from their father.
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
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In World War II-era England, Michael learns about his black British Army soldier grandfather, a World War I officer who risked his life to save wounded men but who did not receive special commendations because of his race.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
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"Centers on Abel and Vera Paisley, a working-class Jamaican couple striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her children, Irene and Vincent. The effects of Abel's decision...
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Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Caleb's class is making projects that represent patriotism to display at Parents' Night. But Caleb can't think of a way to show what patriotism means to him. Besides, his dad can't come because he is away, serving as a soldier. Then when Caleb really starts thinking about what his dad is doing for the country, inspiration finally strikes!
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