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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"This is Claude. He's five years old, the youngest of five brothers. He also loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess. When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl. Rosie and Penn want Claude to be whoever Claude wants to be. They're just not sure they're ready to share that with the world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claude's secret. Until one day it explodes."--
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Language
English
Description
A murder... a tragic accident... or just parents behaving badly? What's indisputable is that someone is dead. But who did what? Big Little Lies follows three women, each at a crossroads: Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She's funny and biting, passionate, she remembers everything and forgives no one. Her ex-husband and his yogi new wife have moved into her beloved beachside community, and their daughter is in the same kindergarten class as...
Author
Publisher
Bonneville Books
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Bachelor Devon Pierce is appointed guardian of the four-year-old son of an Australian exchange student who lived with Devon's family ten years earlier. The boy's father surfaces, causing complications, and a custody battle ensues.
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Language
English
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Description
Talented children's author Claudia Mills pens this inspiring story about one boy's quest for independence. Oliver Olson's teacher wants her students to come up with one idea to change the world. Oliver doubts he'll think up anything great, since his overprotective parents never let him think for himself. But completing a science project-without his parents' help-makes him realize that he may have one great idea after all. "An engaging and thought-provoking...
6) Househusband
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
When his wife is offered her dream job, Linc Menner leaves his thriving landscape business in Los Angeles to move to Rochester, New York, and to take charge of the household, but he soon finds himself frustrated and bored.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
After overcoming a difficult childhood in foster care, pediatrician Lucy Weiss, a suburban wife and mother, finds herself back in the world of families living on the edge as she begins working with at-risk young patients and their families.
8) Hand in hand
Author
Language
English
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The bond a parent and child share is special. In this sweet and heartfelt picture book, renowned author-illustrator Rosemary Wells celebrates all that parents do with and for their children from the very beginning: talking and walking, feeding and reading, playing and dreaming, and more.
10) Side by side
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A heartfelt ode to the physical and emotional roles of father and child.
"King and Jester, Boat and Captain, Mountain and Climber... fathers and children are all of these things and more in Chris Raschka's tribute to this familial pair. Each stanza presents three scenarios in which the father and child's roles are subtly balanced. The pairs vary between stanzas, coming together in a visit to an ice-cream truck. With minimal text and maximum emotion,...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A busy Hollywood couple spins a hilarious cautionary tale about what happens when you are glued to your phone. It's a lively day at the neighborhood park. Birds are singing, squirrels are frolicking, dogs are causing a commotion--and wide-eyed children are enthralled by it all. Too bad the parents are missing everything! It's going to take something really BIG to get them to disengage from their phones . . . This timely story, brought to life with...
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Alice never imagined that she would end up like this. Is she the only mother who feels so permanently panic-stricken at the terrors of the modern world - or is it normal to sit up in bed all night popping bubble wrap? She worries that too much gluten and dairy may be hindering her children's mental arithmetic. She frets that there are too many cars on the road to let them out of the 4x4. Finally she resolves to take control and tackle her biggest...
14) Jana goes wild
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Jana Suleiman has never really fit in--everyone always sees her as too aloof, too cool, too perfect. The one time she did let loose a little, she ended up with a baby. And while her daughter is the best thing that ever happened to her, now Jana knows better. No straying from her comfort zone, no letting emotions get the better of her--especially when it comes to co-parenting with Imani's father, Anil. But Jana's self-control is going to be tested...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Chickens in the Headlights: What are a mother and father to do with seven rambunctious Buckley boys under the age of eleven? When the school year ends, Mom and Dad decide to harness some of their boys' apparently inexhaustible energy and buy goats and chickens for them to take care of. While they are at first thrilled with the task, the boys soon learn that it's far tougher than it appears.
Bullies in the Headlights: The Buckley boys are headed back...
16) Duck goes potty
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Now that Duck is big, he learns how to use the potty.
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