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Far Apart, Close in Heart: Being a Family when a Loved One is Incarcerated
Becky Birtha - Albert Whitman
Format: Print book
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Children can experience many emotions when a parent is in jail or prison. They may be angry, sad, lonely, or scared. Sometimes friends act differently toward them. Sometimes the children begin acting differently too. In this important book, young readers will learn that even when it feels... |
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Do Not Pass Go
Kirkpatrick Hill - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Paperback
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When Deet's father is arrested for drug use, Deet cannot believe it. His easygoing, loving father isn't an addict! But Dad was working two jobs to make more money and taking pills to stay awake during the night shift. And now he's in jail. Hurt, scared, and angry, Deet doesn't... |
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Mexican WhiteBoy
Matt de la Pena - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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DANNY’S TALL AND skinny. Even though he’s not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. A 95 mph fastball, but the boy’s not even on a team. Every time he gets up on the mound he loses it.But at his private... |
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Sunny Holiday
Coleen Paratore - Scholastic Press
Format: eBook
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Spunky third-grader Sunny Holiday tries to make the best out of every situation, and even though her father is in prison, she and her mother count their blessings and manage to find joy in every day. |
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Visiting Day
Jacqueline Woodson - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback
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In this moving picture book from multi-award winning author Jacqueline Woodson, a young girl and her grandmother prepare for a very special day--the one day a month they get to visit the girl's father in prison. "Only on visiting day is there chicken frying in the kitchen at 6 a.m,... |
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The Graham Cracker Plot
Shelley Tougas - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Book
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Meet Daisy Bauer and her sometimes best friend, Graham, who are determined to break Daisy's dad out of prison in this hilarious middle-grade debut.No one believes her, but Daisy Bauer knows her dad has been wrongfully imprisoned and that it's up to her to break him out of jail (aka Club... |
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Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart
Vera B. Williams - Greenwillow Books; First Edition edition
Format: Audio CD
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A funny book that makes you cry. A sad book that makes you laugh. A book about two sisters and their family that makes you wish you were part of it--and grateful that you are not. In short, this book is one surprise after another. The only thing that is not a surprise is that Vera B. Williams... |
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After Tupac and D Foster (Newbery Honor Book)
Jacqueline Woodson - Putnam Young Adult
Format: Hardcover
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D Foster showed up a few months before Tupac got shot that first time and left us the summer before he died. The day D Foster enters Neeka and her best friend’s lives, the world opens up for them. D comes from a world vastly different from their safe Queens neighborhood, and through... |
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Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me
Daniel Beaty - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Every morning, I play a game with my father.He goes knock knock on my doorand I pretend to be asleeptill he gets right next to the bed.And my papa, he tells me, "I love you."But what happens when, one day, that "knock knock" doesn't come? This powerful and inspiring... |
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The Girl in the Well Is Me
Karen Rivers - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Hardcover
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A hilarious and heartwrenching story about a bullied girl whose search for a new beginning takes a dire wrong turn. Newcomer Kammie Summers has fallen into a well during a (fake) initiation into a club whose members have no intention of letting her join. Now Kammie's trapped... |
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Ruby on the Outside
Nora Raleigh Baskin - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Ruby's mom is in prison, and to tell anyone the truth is to risk true friendship in this novel from the author of The Summer Before Boys that accurately and sensitively addresses a subject too often overlooked.Eleven-year-old Ruby Danes is about to start middle school, and only her aunt... |
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