In this delightful, rhythmic sequel to One Odd Day, the young boy awakens to find that it is another strange day—now everything is even, and his mother has two heads! This time, a school field trip to
Reveals characteristics of a girl's various family members, from her mother to her mother's mother's mother's mother's daughter's daughter's daughter's daughter.
Downhearted due to the loss of her mother and her father's grief, thirteen-year-old Fran decides to give up her dream of becoming the first female in professional baseball after a coach attacks her ju
OPEN UP AND SHARE YOUR MEMORIES, DREAMS, AND WISDOM WITH YOUR FAMILY IN THIS KEEPSAKE JOURNAL THEY WILL TREASURE FOREVER?An easy-to-follow and heartfelt journal for moms to pass down their life story
When he asks his mother, a privateer for Queen Elizabeth, to go to school she insists it be the best one in the world, only it is over four hundred years in the future.
A gorgeous debut about family, friendship, first romance, and how to be true to one person you love without betraying another“One thing my mother never knew, and would disapprove of most of all, was t
When two year old Daniel lay motionless on the floor staring at the ceiling, his mother had no idea that he was exemplifying the first symptoms of what would be diagnosed as autism two years later.The
In My Father's House is the story of Corrie's life with her mother, father, and the rest of her family before they began hiding Jewish people in their home. This book is a testament to how God prepare
Longlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Books Prize, this totally awesome tale is for girls who love Clarice Bean and Amelia's Notebook Polly Price is so embarrassed by her actress mother, who love
In Pardon My Spanglish, stand-up comedian Bill Santiago chronicles the quintessentially American alegrias of his mother tongue: the quirky, hilariously improvisational fusion of ingles and espanol spo
A charming parody of P.D. Eastman's beloved 1960 children's classic, Are You My Mother?, Are You My Husband? follows the adventures of Little Chick, who wakes up one day to discover she is thirty-horr
Kertzer (English, U. of Calgary) examines the representation of the Holocaust in children's books. She uses her own experience of reading such books in light of the stories her mother told as one of t
After liberation from Auschwitz, fourteen-year-old Elli, her brother, and their mother attempt to rebuild their lives in Czechoslovakia. But it doesn't take long for Elli to realize that even though t
My Mother's Body, Marge Piercy's tenth book of poetry, takes its title from one of her strongest and most moving poems, the climax of a powerful sequence of Poems to her mother. Rooted in an honest, h
In this rhyming sequel to One Odd Day, the young boy awakens to find that it is another strange day now everything is even, and his mother has two heads! This time, a school field trip to the zoo is d
A middle-aged wife and mother, locked in a never ending cycle of house chores, school runs and meal times, sees no way to live her life with honesty, verve and passion until she revisits an old love a
When Beth Bernstein’s mother unexpectedly passed away, Beth’s life was forever changed, as she knew that she’d lost not only her best friend, but also a big part of herself. In this heartwarming and m
