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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
Author
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Fountas & Pinnell
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A child living in the Arctic learns that a mother's love is unconditional.
Amazon.com: This exceptional board-book tells a beautiful and timeless story about a daughter's attempt to find the limit of her mother's love. Barbara Lavallee's exquisite illustrations of Alaska, with their exaggeratedly foreshortened perspective and rich tones of violet, blue-gray, and gray-green, tell of an easy declaration (I love you more than the raven loves his treasure,...
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Advice columnist Julieanne is shocked when her husband asks for a separation, leaving her and their three children behind to fend for themselves, but when Julieanne is diagnosed with a serious illness, Julieanne must find a way to care for her children and prepare them for a life without either of their parents.
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Description
Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child���the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment���weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her...
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Now a major motion picture starring Amanda Seyfried.
Compared to seminal feminist works such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, A Mouthful of Air is a powerful, tragic statement on motherhood, family, and survival.
A Mouthful of Air is a compassionate and wrenching portrait of Julie Davis, a young wife and mother torn between the love she feels for her family and the voice in her head that insists...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. She ascends to the Beyond where she's assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows Vivi to watch what happens below for one last summer. Vivi also is granted three “nudges” to change the outcome of events on earth, and with her daughter Willa on her third...
9) Sleepy bears
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When winter comes, six sleepy bears are rhymed to sleep by Mother Bear.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1975]
Description
"Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair, and left California for the wind-swept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more beloved children and the terrible pain has begun to heal--until the morning when she looks in the backyard for her little boy and girl and finds only one red mitten. She knows...
Author
Series
Llama Llama (Picture books) volume 4
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Llama Llama becomes overwhelmed as Christmas preparations progress, until his mother reminds him of the real gift the holiday brings.
14) The good mother
Author
Pub. Date
c1986
Description
After taking a lover, Anna Dunlap finds herself in a custody battle for her four-year-old daughter Molly.
16) Owl babies
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Three baby owls awake one night to find their mother gone, and they can't help but wonder where she is. What is she doing? When will she be back?"--
19) Love, mama
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Baby Kipling, a penguin, misses his mama when she goes on a trip.
Author
Series
Kate Reddy novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Meet Kate Reddy, hedge-fund manager and mother of two. She can juggle nine different currencies in five different time zones and get herself and two children washed and dressed and out of the house in half an hour. In Kate's life, Everything Goes Perfectly as long as Everything Goes Perfectly. She lies to her own mother about how much time she spends with her kids; practices pelvic floor squeezes in the boardroom; applies tips from Toddler Taming...