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Author
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
As families and communities come together--and stay apart--in creative ways this holiday season, bring comfort and joy to children with this story about a Christmas like no other. Always Together at Christmas highlights different family traditions and the ways they're changing in 2020: from Santa's elves practicing social distancing to opening presents via Zoom on Christmas morning. And it even includes ideas for new quarantine-appropriate Christmas...
Author
Publisher
White mOuntain Puzzles, Inc
Language
English
Description
You'll want to move right into this welcoming house, painted in meticulous detail by English artist Steve Crisp. Santa & reindeer have landed safely on the snowy roof and the jolly man makes his way to one of three chimneys. Just below, a child is "nestled all snug" in bed while the family stockings hang on the nearby mantelpiece. Next door is the nursery and further on is the master bedroom where Dad is pulling out gifts hidden beneath the bed. The...
Author
Series
Lola Levine volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Description
"Lola Levine finally gets a kitten, but when the family learns that Ben is allergic, they will have to find a new home for the pet"--
Author
Publisher
Nolo
Language
English
Description
When you're getting divorced, you can make a tough time easier for your children (and yourself) if you work with the other parent to draw up a custody plan and agree on child support. Doskow shows you how negotiation and mediation can keep costs down; where to find your state's child support guidelines; how to enforce and change custody and support orders; what military families need to know, and much more.
4247) Parachute kids
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Language
English
Description
After their two-week family tour of Los Angeles, ten-year-old Feng Li Lin and her older brother and sister learn they will remain in California while their parents return to Taiwan, forcing them to navigate a new school, a new language, bullies, racism, and the pressures of running a household.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books, Hachette Book Group
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters Justin Scheck and Bradley Hope (coauthor of Billion Dollar Whale), a revelatory look at the inner workings of the world's most powerful ruling family, the royal family of Saudi Arabia, revealing how a rift within that family produced Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, aka MBS, a charismatic leader with a ruthless streak"--
Mohammed bin Salman convinced the world that his desire to reform the kingdom...
4249) Mum & Dad
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Language
English
Description
"It's been 25 years since Gus and Monica left England to start a new life in Spain, building a vineyard and wine business from the ground up. However, when Gus suffers a stroke and their idyllic Mediterranean life is thrown into upheaval, it's left to their three grown-up children in London to step in . . . Sebastian is busy running his company with his wife, Anna, who's never quite seen eye-to-eye with her mother-in-law. Katie, a successful solicitor...
4250) Strike zone
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Nick García dreams of winning MVP of his summer baseball league, of finding a cure for his sister, of meeting his hero, Yankee pitcher Michael Arroyo, and of no longer living in fear of the government and ICE agents.
4251) Karen's roller skates
Author
Series
Baby-sitters little sister) volume 2
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Language
English
Description
It's going to be a great weekend! Karen has new roller skates and is a very good skater. She's looking forward to trying some new tricks. But, oh no! Karen falls down and has to go to the hospital. Her wrist is broken! Karen is determined to get everyone she knows -- plus someone famous -- to sign her cast. It isn't going to be easy, but she won't give up until the job is done.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Language
English
Description
March the Hare is starting in his very first professional race at Harewood Speedway, and his whole family is there to cheer him on, and help with the pit stops--but last year's champion, Lyca the Fox, is not above driving dirty in order to defend her record.
4253) It had to be you
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Two identical brothers, both handsome, intelligent and popular recent college graduates, seemingly perfect in every way. That is, until the shocking summer night when one of them killed their parents in cold blood. The other has an iron-clad alibi, but which twin was where during the murders? And is it possible the two of them planned the perfect crime together?
Years later, the case is still unsolved, and the brothers are long estranged. Each of...
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas
Language
English
Description
Family life can be full of misunderstandings even when you're all the same species. So just imagine what would happen if your little sister was a cat! Enjoy the charming complications in the lives of Nekota, his adorable sister Neneko, and their parents and friends.
4255) Paper wife
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Language
English
Description
"A heart-wrenching story about finding strength in a new world. Southern China, 1923. Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling's parents arrange a marriage to a widower in California. To enter the country, she must pretend to be her husband's first wife--a paper wife. On the perilous voyage, Mei Ling takes an orphan girl named Siew under her wing. Dreams of a better life in America give Mei Ling the strength to endure the treacherous journey and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Buffalo Games, LLC
Language
English
Description
This 1000 piece puzzle features a family fishing on a pond with the sun setting, a campfire blazing, the canoe pulled up to shore for the evening, and a bald eagle flying overhead. This puzzle also has 10 hidden images for you to find.
Artist Kim Norlien and Buffalo Games.
4257) The meeting
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Language
English
Description
Having lost their home, a fox and her daughter move in with a badger and his three children, but when the youngsters throw a big party hoping to prove that they are incompatible, their plan backfires.
4258) Squished
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Avery Lee loves living in Hickory Valley, Maryland. She loves her neighborhood, school, and the end-of-summer fair she always goes to with her two best friends. But she's tired of feeling squished by her six siblings! They're noisy and chaotic and the younger kids love her a little too much. All Avery wants is her own room -- her own space to be alone and make art. So she's furious when Theo, her grumpy older brother, gets his own...
4259) Wander in the dark
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Language
English
Description
In this new pulse-pounding thriller from the author of The Black Queen, two brothers must come together to solve the murder of the most popular girl in school after one of them is caught fleeing the scene of her death.
Amir Trudeau only goes to his half brother Marcel’s birthday party because of Chloe Danvers. Chloe is rich, and hot, and fits right into the perfect life Marcel inherited when their father left Amir’s mother to start a new family...
4260) For the love of Summer
Author
Publisher
Mira
Language
English
Description
"As the owner of Twisted, Seattle's best salons, Erica knows that the sharpest cuts come from the people we love. She's terrified that she's losing her teen daughter, Summer, to her "other" family, especially to her stepmom, Allison. All it takes to blow up Allison's happy life is one collect call. From prison. Her beloved husband, Peter, has been arrested, leaving Allison pregnant, broke, scared and alone with a toddler. But when her stepdaughter...
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