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81) In search of us
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
Relates the stories of Marilyn who, at age seventeen, fell in love with James, left her stage-mother, and set out on her own and Angie, her now seventeen-year-old daughter, who returns to Hollywood seeking her father.
84) Say it!
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The love of a mother for her little girl permeates a walk they take together on an autumn day.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
A series of letters and newspaper articles reveals life in California in the 1850s, especially for thirteen-year-old Eldora, who was raised in Massachusetts as an orphan only to meet her influential mother in San Francisco, and Luke, who hopes to find a fortune in gold.
86) Laura Charlotte
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Mother describes her love for a toy elephant she was given as a child, a gift she has now passed on to her daughter.
87) Killing time
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
When her favorite teacher is murdered, true-crime obsessed teenager Natalie Temple launches her own investigation with the help of a new boy in town, but soon discovers some secrets were never meant to be told.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Ainsley Earhardt reflects on her experiences as a mother and viewing wonders of the world through a child's eyes in this stunning follow up to Take Heart, My Child. So often as we race through life, we need the wisdom and perspective of a child to remind us what is important and what should be celebrated and remembered: the everyday joys and miracles and simple pleasures of life. Our children teach us and awaken our own inner child.
90) Josie Smith
Author
Publisher
M. K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
1989
Description
Follows the amusing misadventures of a little girl as she shops for the perfect birthday gift for her mother, blackens a blackboard, and cares for a lost cat.
91) Tuesday's child
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1984
Description
Although Grace intends to become the first female in baseball's big leagues, Grace's mother insists she take ballet lessons on the very days her little league team practices and plays.
92) Lily's ghosts
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Strange goings-on at her great-uncle's summer home in Cape May, New Jersey, draw Lily and a new friend into a mystery involving lost treasure, a fake medium, and ghosts of all sizes, shapes, and dispositions.
Author
Publisher
Switch Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Sixteen-year-old Chelsea has always been overweight, and now in high school she is being unmercifully teased by other students, and even her mother gives her no support, despite her beautiful singing voice--but in film class she is assigned work on a film with Melody and for the first time she finds someone other than her father who does not criticize her, and finally finds the confidence to try out for the school choir.
97) I, Coriander
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In 17th century London, Coriander, a girl who has inherited magic from her mother, must find a way to use this magic in order to save both herself and an inhabitant of the fairy world where her mother was born.
98) My working Mom
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Although she sometimes resents her mother's work as a witch, a young girl decides to keep her mother just the way she is.
99) The chalk doll
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1993, c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Rosy's mother remembers the pleasures of her childhood in Jamaica and the very special dolls she used to play with.
100) The quilt story
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1985
Description
A pioneer mother lovingly stitches a beautiful quilt which warms and comforts her daughter Abigail; many years later another mother mends and patches it for her little girl.
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