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Ramona Quimby is back. This time Ramona, the spirited youngest Quimby child, is having trouble understanding why Willa Jean can destroy boxes of tissues and make messes and still get all the attention. When Ramona finally gets time with her mother all by herself, things don't quite go as Ramona had planned.
2) Almost home
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Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
3) Saturday
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Little, Brown and Company
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First edition.
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"Today will be special. Today will be splendid. Today is Saturday! This is the day Ava and her mother cherish. Saturday means: storytime, salon time, picnic time, and this week the best puppet show ever! But what happends when life doesn't exactly deliver on its promise? Join a mother and daughter on an up-and-down journey that reminds them of what's best about Saturdays: precious time together." --book jacket.
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Katharine the almost great volume 2
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When Katharine discovers that her mom is the new cook at her school, she takes matters into her own hands.
6) This lullaby
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Raised by a mother who's had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician.
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Shadow game trilogy volume 2
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Saving Levi Glaisyer's life in the Shadow Game forced Enne Salta to assume the identity of Séance, a mysterious underworld figure. Now, with the Chancellor of the Republic dead and bounties on both their heads, she and Levi must play a dangerous game of crime and politics... and the very fate of New Reynes is at stake. Levi enters an unlikely partnership with Vianca Augustine's estranged son, while, Enne remains trapped by the mafia donna's binding...
10) The door
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Twelve-year-old Hannah Silver can sense things that other people cannot, and living in Cliff House she is surrounded by secrets and the voices of people who are not really there--but when she finds her mother murdered she will have to confront the secret of a mysterious door that may lead to another world.
11) The memory thief
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Thirteen witches volume 1
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When sixth-grader Rosie begins to see magic, she learns that her mother's dwindling memory is tied to an age-old battle between the light of the moon and the darkness of witches.
12) Brightwood
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When her mother disappears and a menacing stranger tries to claim her home, Brightwood Hall, for himself, Daisy must use her wits, courage, and help from her imaginary friends to survive.
Daisy Fitzjohn lives in a secluded mansion called Brightwood Hall, and has never once set foot outside its grounds. Daisy and her mother have everything they need within Brightwood's half-ruined walls, including Daisyʹs best friends: a talking rat named Tar and...
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"The daughter of a self-help superstar, Audrey is determined to create her own identity and agrees to go on her mother's book tour, hoping to figure out how they fit into each other's lives, but is unaware of how much this summer will upend her carefully planned life"--
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"In this timeless story from a time not so long ago, Annie and her sister help Mama with washing the clothes on Monday morning. From gathering and sorting the clothes, to washing and hanging them outside to dry, to folding and putting them away, the family works together to get the job done."--Amazon.com
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This can't be good! Suddenly Suze's mom wants back into her life, and her teacher wants her to "try harder"?!
As if middle school wasn't hard enough, Suze Tamaki's life gets turned upside down when her mother reappears after a ten-year absence. Once Suze gets over her shock, she thinks it might be cool to get to know her mom. But her older sister Tracie is determined not to let her back into their lives.
At school things aren't much better. One of...
17) Splintered
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Splintered series volume 1
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A descendant of the inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, sixteen-year-old Alyssa Gardner fears she is mentally ill like her mother until she finds that Wonderland is real and, if she passes a series of tests to fix Alice's mistakes, she may save her family from their curse.
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Not a drop to drink volume 1
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"Sixteen-year-old Lynn will do anything to protect her valuable water source, but the arrival of new neighbors forces her to reconsider her attitudes"--
19) Everlasting Nora
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"After the loss of her father and home, twelve-year-old Nora lives with her mother in Manila's North Cemetery but then her mother disappears, sending Nora on a dangerous quest to find her." --
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Penelope is an imaginative girl, whose every day has been rigidly scheduled by her mother--until one day she falls through a hole in her calendar and lands in the Realm of Possibility, where she discovers that it, too, is stuck in a track of time, and only she can save it.
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