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Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This accessible guide will tell you everything you need to know about parenting a child with a hidden condition, such as autism, dyspraxia, ADHD, or bipolar, whether or not a formal diagnosis has been received. With information on various conditions and diagnoses, it includes candid advice and strategies from parents as well as young adults who grew up with a hidden condition themselves" --
1184) Omega farm: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist -- a candid, riveting account of her complicated, bohemian childhood and her return home to care for her ailing mother. In March 2020, Martha McPhee, her husband, and their two almost-grown children set out for her childhood home in New Jersey, where she finds herself grappling simultaneously with a mother slipping into severe dementia and a house that's been neglected of late. As Martha works...
1186) BILLIE THE WILD CHILD
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When three ducklings arrive in Fosterland, it is the white mallard, Billie, who feels different than the others, and though he likes being in there with his friends he sometimes longs to be free in the wild.
1187) Helicopter heroine: Valérie André -- surgeon, pioneer rescue pilot, and her courage under fire
Author
Publisher
Stackpole Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Helicopter Heroine is the story of Valérie André, who began her medical career in Paris under the eyes of the Gestapo, trained as a neurosurgeon, and blazed trails as a helicopter pioneer and battlefield medicine innovator during the French Indochina war. Flying through bullets and bombs to treat and evacuate the wounded, André became a legend"--
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An authoritative guide to understanding and navigating gender identity from an acclaimed expert on the mental health of transgender and gender diverse youth. Kids today are more gender fluent and expansive than ever before. Over 700,000 teenagers in America openly identify as transgender, a number that is rising each year. As it becomes increasingly common for us to encounter and know transgender kids, as well as kids with more expansive notions...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers/Harper Alley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Anne Shirley has been in foster care her whole life. So when the Cuthberts take her in, she hopes it's for good. They seem to be hitting it off, but how will they react to the trouble that Anne can sometimes find herself in . . . like accidentally dyeing her hair green or taking a dangerous dare that leaves her in a cast? Then Anne meets Diana Barry, a girl who lives in her apartment building, the Avon-Lea. The two become fast friends, as Anne finds...
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