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1) Wait
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"A ... picture book about the joys of waiting and taking in what is around you"--
2) Coming home
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Follows the emotions of a young boy as he waits at an airport for a family member to return home from serving in the military.
3) Big snow
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"An excited and frustrated boy watches hopefully as wintry weather develops slowly into a 'big snow.'"--
7) Milo walking
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Young Milo and his mother go for the same walk around their neighborhood every morning, but with Milo's imagination, there are always new things to see, old things to see in new ways, and the possibilities of what they will see tomorrow.
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1 volume : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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Sam, usually sad to say goodbye to his mom every day for kindergarten, is delighted when she gives him a pretend pocket-sized mom for him to keep with him all day, until she comes to life with comically disastrous results.
10) Hungry Jim
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Jim wakes up hungry, just not for the pancakes his mother is fixing -- so his imagination takes over, and he pictures himself as a lion checking out the possibilities for breakfast (including his mother).
11) Oliver
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Oliver likes finding things out, so when his mother cannot explain the gurgling in the bathtub he builds a submarine, goes down the drain, and meets a group of vacationing penguins.
13) In your hands
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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"A prayer from mother to son that he will always in safe hands"--
15) The dogs
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Cameron is used to moving at a moment's notice because he and his mother are always running away from his supposedly violent father, but he is disturbed by their latest refuge, a creepy, deserted farmhouse, haunted by bloodthirsty dogs--and when he sees a boy hiding in the barn, and finds an old picture of the same boy, he starts wondering about the possibility of human ghosts.
16) One day
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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In this heartfelt mother's ode to her baby boy, she shares her hopes and dreams for him as she envisions him exploring the world and blazing his own trail.
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261 pages ; 22 cm
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When his mother dies three weeks before his high school graduation, Danny goes to Tokyo, where his mother had been going for cancer treatments, to learn about the city his mother loved and, with the help of his friends, come to terms with her death.
19) No new pants!
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When his mother takes him to buy new pants, a young boy tries on many different pairs, but finds just what he wants back at home. Includes "Phonics Guidelines."
20) The batboy
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247 pages ; 24 cm
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Even though his mother feels baseball ruined her marriage to his father, she allows fourteen-year-old Brian to become a bat boy for the Detroit Tigers, who have just drafted his favorite player back onto the team.
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