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1) Mujercitas
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Mujercitas de Louisa May Alcott es un emotivo relato muy femenino con personajes y situaciones memorables. Enamoramientos, aspiraciones intelectuales, complicaciones, vicisitudes en la vida de las jovencitas. La escritora utiliza una fina descripción de caracteres, que muestra el paso de la niñez a la juventud, pone énfasis en el espíritu de la libertad individual, algo no usual para la época. Las March demuestran sus aptitudes sociales tocando...
4) Almost home
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264 pages ; 22 cm
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Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
5) Saturday
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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When all of their special Saturday plans go awry, Ava and her mother still find a way to appreciate one another and their time together.
9) Little Night
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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At the end of a long day, Mother Sky helps her playful daughter, Little Night, to get ready for bed.
10) And she was
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When Dara finds her birth certificate, she is puzzled to find two strange names on it, but when her mother, Mellie, reveals that she is transgender and transitioned when Dara's biological mother died soon after Dara's birth, Dara is stunned and angry -- and she sets off with her friend Sam, in search of the grandparents she never knew existed (and who may be able to fund her tennis career), and the family secrets she can only guess at.
13) Everlasting Nora
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287 pages ; 22 cm
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"After the loss of her father and home, twelve-year-old Nora lives with her mother in Manila's North Cemetery but then her mother disappears, sending Nora on a dangerous quest to find her." --
14) Hurricane child
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Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl -- and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
15) Forget me not
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When her mother breaks up with yet another boyfriend, Calliope meets Jinsong at her latest middle school, who becomes her friend despite her Tourette Syndrome and the embarrassment it can cause.
16) Away
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A gentle tale told entirely through sticky notes between a mother and daughter as the girl's departure for her first summer camp draws near demonstrates how love can be found even in scribbled messages and other unlikely places.
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Cora the mermaid is having trouble with spelling, but if she wants to stay on the Singing Sirens swim team she has get an A on her next test -- so her mother gives her a "magic" diary that compels her to practice writing, while her friends explain to her the concept of studying.
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454 pages ; 22 cm
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Shelby Cooper, nearly eighteen, has been overprotected by her single mother all her life but after a car accident, Shelby's mother steals her away from the hospital, revealing that Shelby's father is not dead, but rather a violent man who promised to hunt them down.
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