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Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"It is almost bedtime, but first young Marco must put away his collection of stuffed animal toys. As a budding scientist Marco tries different ways of sorting the animals, but the animals have their own ideas. Marco scrambles to make everyone happy and make it to bed before his mother comes to tuck him in"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
3) Artemis Fowl
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 1
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a most ingenious criminal mastermind, and heir to the Fowl family empire, a centuries-old clan of underworld figures and famous con artists. When Artemis kidnaps Holly Short, one of the Fairy People, to help him on his quest for gold, he takes on a Fairy world determined to rescue Holly.
4) Oliver
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
5) Puddle
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A mother and son use their imagination to have fun on a rainy day"--Provided by publisher.
10) A bird will soar
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After a tornado, Axel, who loves birds, finds an injured eaglet, and helps to rescue it -- and also helps to resolve the problems in his broken family, and draw his father back home.
11) In your hands
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A prayer from mother to son that he will always in safe hands"--
12) I can explain
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A little boy tries to justify all his bad habits to his mother with increasing unlikely explanations.
13) Wait
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As a boy and his mother move quickly through the city, the boy sees a dog, a butterfly and a hungry duck while his mother rushes them toward the departing train, but eventually, the little boy teaches his mother to slow down and enjoy the sites around them.
15) Blueberry cake
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Little Bear LOVES blueberries, and while picking them for Mama so she can make his favorite blueberry cake, he eats them all and must find a way not to come home empty handed.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maverick Falconer is just starting middle school and he wishes he were a hero like his father because maybe then he could deal with his mother's drinking and series of abusive boyfriends, not to mention the kids who bully him in middle school (pretty much the same ones who bullied him in elementary school)--but as the year passes he begins to realize that other kids have problems too, and maybe if they can all survive sixth-grade things will get better....
17) Patchwork prince
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
With fabric scrap treasures, a mother makes her son clothes fit for royalty.
18) I wanna iguana
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Alex and his mother write notes back and forth in which Alex tries to persuade her to let him have a baby iguana for a pet.
19) Mommy's hometown
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a young boy and his mother travel to her childhood home in Korea, the town is not as he imagined until he visits the river where she used to play and sees that the spirit and happiness of those days remain.
20) One day
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
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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