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Author
Description
Entering the afterlife due to a hit and run accident, a successful author learns she can observe the earthly lives of her nearly grown children and is also permitted three "nudges" to alter the outcome of events.
Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. In the Beyond, she's assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows...
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2005 1975
Description
Nancy Harmon fled her California home, the macabre deaths of her two children, and the hideous charges brought against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair and sought refuge in the serenity of a small New England town. Now, remarried with two new lovely children, Nancy's life is filled with happiness...until the morning when she looks for her children but all she finds is one tattered red mitten and knows that the nightmare is beginning again....
10) Mama's favorite
Author
Publisher
Minedition/Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
©2007.
Description
Muri, a small mouse with many brothers and sisters, wonders who is Mama's favorite child.
12) Just like my mom
Author
Publisher
Sandy Creek
Pub. Date
2008, ©2004
Description
This little lion cub likes to play and be silly. And sometimes he gets in trouble. But when it comes to certain things, there's no one just like mom.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Formats
Description
Raised in seclusion by fundamentalist grandparents who claim she is an evil product of her mother's sinful mistake, teenager Elle Edwards finally learns the truth about her conception and struggles with profound feelings of insecurity while pursuing a relationship with a vacationing boy.
17) Room: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
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.
20) Art
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
A boy named Art creates lines, squiggles, dots and whole new worlds in this imaginative and rhyming book from the creator of Mutts.
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