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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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A powerfully moving novel of love, loss, hope, and family from bestselling author James Patterson.
Katie Wilkinson has found her perfect man at last. He's a writer, a house painter, an original thinker - everything she's imagined she wanted in a partner. But one day, without explanation, he disappears from her life, leaving behind only a diary for her to read.
This diary is a love letter written by a new mother named Suzanne for her baby...
Katie Wilkinson has found her perfect man at last. He's a writer, a house painter, an original thinker - everything she's imagined she wanted in a partner. But one day, without explanation, he disappears from her life, leaving behind only a diary for her to read.
This diary is a love letter written by a new mother named Suzanne for her baby...
2) Pretty baby
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English
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Things go dangerously wrong when a middle-class wife and mother impulsively opens her home to a homeless teen and her tiny baby.
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English
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Delve into the whimsical world of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman," a groundbreaking novel that revolutionized the literary landscape.
Sterne's work, inspired by the likes of Cervantes and John Locke, challenges traditional narrative forms through its playful digressions, innovative typography, and satirical tone. The novel humorously narrates the life of Tristram Shandy, making it a pioneering precursor to stream of consciousness...
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English
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From New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist Caroline Leavitt comes an unusual twist on the family-in-jeopardy story-a couple's love and faith are tested when after labor complications, a young mother lapses into a coma.
It can take a long time to build up a life, and only moments to destroy it. Gary and Molly met in the way couples do: after a long haul of being single, quickly becoming soulmates and rejoicing in that fact. Beautiful,...
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English
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A night flight from Istanbul bound for Paris, filled with 169 holiday travelers, plummets into the Swiss Alps. The sole survivor is a three-month-old girl--thrown from the plane onto the snowy mountainside before fire rages through the aircraft. But two infants were on board. Is the miracle baby Lyse-Rose or Emilie? Both families step forward to claim the child--one poor, one powerful, wealthy, and dangerous.
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English
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"In the spirit of The Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours, a historical debut about a nurse who chooses to save a baby's life, and risks her own in the process, exploring the ties of motherhood and the little-known history of Coney Island and America's first incubators"--
9) Origin
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English
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Lena is a fingerprint expert at a crime lab in the small city of Syracuse, New York, where winters are cold and deep. Suddenly, a series of crib deaths-indistinguishable from SIDS except for the fevered testimony of one distraught mother with connections in high places-draws the attention of the police and the national media and raises the possibility of the inconceivable: could there be a serial infant murderer on the loose? Orphaned as a child,...
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English
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Share the joys of becoming a big brother!
With the arrival of a new baby comes many transitions, and big brothers may need a little extra tender loving care to adjust to a new family situation. This sweet story with adorable toddler illustrations by Caroline Jayne Church is just right to share with and prepare an older brother getting ready for an expanding family. Praise for TEN TINY TOES"The brief, lyrical text, the opportunities for...
11) Little you
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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Celebrating the joy babies bring into the world.
12) The silent boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.
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Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Through a misunderstanding, Junie B. thinks that her new baby brother is really a baby monkey, and her report of this news creates excitement and trouble in her kindergarten class.
16) Maple
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"A nature-loving little girl's favorite playmate is her maple tree, until the day she's surprised with a baby sister"--
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Anastasia Krupnik volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Anastasia's 10th year has some good things like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother and some bad things like finding out about an impending baby brother.
18) Solemn
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English
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Suspecting that a new baby in her trailer park community may be a half-sibling related to her father's philandering, Solemn is shattered by the baby's murder and finds refuge in a fantasy life and new friendships before her father's activities land her in a group home for troubled girls.
19) Unsafe haven
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English
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Elizabeth Browns world has fallen apart and she's thinking about her newly ex-fiancé. Until she locks eyes with a teenage girl while waiting for the train doors to open, and a bundle is thrust into her arms as she leaves the subway. A baby, wrapped in a dirty coat. Elizabeth phones the number she finds in the coat pocket. Then wishes she hadn't.
20) Baby! Talk!
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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Photographs and simple text present a group of babies finding their feet, playing patty-cake, eating, hugging, and more.