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It's Jack's birthday and he's excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside.
2) Son
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 4
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
3) Someday
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
A mother reflects on the all the milestones, from walking in a deep wood to holding someone else's hand, that her child will achieve during life.
7) Just for you
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Series
Publisher
Golden Press
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
English
Description
A little creature tries and tries to do something special for his mother but something always seems to go wrong.
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English
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"Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours. But this version of 1950's America is characterized by a significant event: The Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales and talons, left a trail of fiery destruction in their path, and took to the skies. Was it their choice? What will become of those left behind? Why did Alex's beloved Aunt Marla transform but her mother did not?...
15) Nightwatching
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Language
English
Description
Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a disturbingly familiar noise: it's the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs. Terrified, she quietly wakes her children and hustles them into a tiny, secret room concealed behind a wall. There they hide as the intruder tries to tempt the children out with promises and scare the mother into surrender....
17) Big Bad Bunny
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008.
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.
19) Trust me, Mom!
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Ollie tries to be safe and polite on his first walk to the corner store alone, even when scary creatures appear on the way.
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