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The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs

Jack Gantos

A young woman named Ivy, who made a shocking discovery in her small western Pennsylvania town when she was seven years old and learned a surprising secret nine years later, questions whether she has i

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A Thief in the House of Memory

Tim Wynne-Jones

The death of an apparent stranger in the Steeple family's old home triggers troubling questions for sixteen-year-old Declan as he tries to make sense of his fragmented dreams, random memories, and une

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No Place Like Home

Mary Higgins Clark

Over twenty years after the brutal murder of her mother and her own acquittal of the crime, Liza Barton's new husband, Alex Nolan, unexpectedly buys the New Jersey home where Liza's mother died and ag

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Donorboy

Brendan Halpin

Rosalind, a fourteen-year-old orphan, becomes the ward of her biological father after the tragic death of her gay mother, and struggles with the adjustment of getting to know a father she never knew.

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Bucking the Sarge

Christopher Paul Curtis

Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men, a

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In My Mother's Closet

Eugenia Zukerman

Contains interviews with over forty women in which they share their feelings about their mothers evoked by memories of going into mom's closet.

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A Door Near Here

Heather Quarles

Four siblings struggle to maintain a seminormal home life when their single mother's alcoholism becomes debilitating.

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Letters to My Daughters

Mary Matalin

Presents a collection of letters written by political consultant Mary Matalin to her daughters, in which she offers them advice and wisdom on love, marriage, personal responsibility, boys, faith, and

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A Door Near Here

Heather Quarles

Four siblings struggle to maintain a seminormal home life when their single mother's alcoholism becomes debilitating.

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