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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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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.
2) Bird box
Author
Series
Bird Box novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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In a world where no one can go outside for fear of something terrifying that when seen drives people to deadly violence, single mother Malorie and her two children must attempt a terrifying twenty-mile trip downriver while blindfolded.
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Language
English
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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 miscarriage,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane María. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers....
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
From her knowledge of when to change a diaper and how to make popsicles to her skills in driving a delivery truck and dancing the polka, a child sings the praises of a special family member.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with anending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A little rabbit who wants to run away tells his mother how he will escape, but she is always right behind him.
'A little bunny keeps running away from his mother in this imaginary game of hide-and-seek. Children will be profoundly comforted by this lovingly steadfast mother who finds her child every time. The Runaway Bunny, first published in 1942 and never out of print, has indeed become a classic. Generations of readers have fallen in love with...
10) Little mouse
Author
Publisher
Disney.Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little girl explains how she does not always fit her nickname, little mouse, but it is perfect for when she is cuddling with her mother.
11) Big Bad Bunny
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Baby Boo-Boo, a mouse dressed in a bunny suit, becomes lost in the forest, his mother follows the sound of his cries to locate him.
12) Mama loves
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Some little pigs describe the many things and activities that their mother loves and shares with them.
13) The best mother
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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After interviewing mothers at the park, the toy store, and the zoo, Maxine decides that her own mother is worth keeping.
15) Yum, yum, yummy!
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Greedy Guzzley Bear steals honey from three cubs, but Mummy Bear comes to the rescue.
17) All we know
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A celebration of a mother's unconditional love for her child describes how the narrator's devotion is as instinctive as nature, comparing it to such everyday wonders as the rising sun, the changing seasons, and growing animals.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Celebrate the special bond between fun-loving moms and their lucky kids in this tribute from the bestselling creators behind Because I'm Your Dad, Ahmet Zappa and Dan Santat. What’s the best kind of mom? The kind of mom who lets you have nachos for breakfast, goes skateboarding with you at the beach, and does the dinosaur dance with you under the full moon. But best of all, she kisses away your owies, wishes upon a shooting star for you, and loves...
19) Mommy time
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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This intimate picture book debut captures the joys—and occasional struggles—of being a stay-at-home parent. Rollicking rhyme and playful illustrations record a day in the life of two rambunctious children and their stay-at-home mother. As fun as it is being a kid, it can behard work being a mom. When Dad heads to his job, the joyful chaos of getting ready for the day begins. To the children, that day is a happy blur of school and playdates,...
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