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Ages 8-12.
"When eleven-year-old Perpeuta promises to save her family from financial ruin, she sets off on a quest with her younger brother, a stolen horse, and a chicken in search of a valuable coin"--
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5 stars
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Claiming that a committed family dinner every night helps strengthen the bonds of a family, provides recipes for easy-to-prepare family dinners, including roast vegetables with polenta, spicy shrimp with yogurt, and homemade pizza--
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4 stars
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When Meili learns her parents are adopting another child, she must accept the role of big sister and realize a new addition can be just right too.
4. Lucky beans
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During the Great Depression, Marshall, an African American boy, uses lessons learned in arithmetic class and guidance from his mother to figure out how many beans are in a jar in order to win her a new sewing machine in a contest.
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4 stars
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In the tradition of Shel Silverstein, these poems bring a fresh new twist to the classic dilemmas of childhood as well as a perceptive eye to the foibles of modern family life. Full of clever wordplay and bright visual gags--and toilet humor to spare--these twenty-three rhyming poems make for an ideal read-aloud experience.
7. One family
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3.5 stars
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A family can be many things, in this story that introduces numbered groups from one to ten.
In this story that introduces numbered groups from one to ten, we realize that families can be many things.
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"It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church"--Provided by publisher.
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A boy relates the preparations for, and enjoyment of, his family's annual Thanksgiving in the Woods celebration on his grandparents' farm. Includes words to the Shaker hymn Tis a Gift to be Simple and notes about the real gathering on which the story is based.
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5 stars
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Follows a family through seasons and generations as the house to which their immigrant grandparents came is transformed into a home.
11. Who will you be?
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A picture book about how family and community help shape the wonderful people our children become.
12. Yard sale
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3 stars
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Selling her personal possessions when her family is forced to move into a small city apartment, Callie struggles while watching other people buy her things but soon realizes that a home is not about what you have, but whom you hold close.