Family

And the mountains echoed : a novel /

Hosseini, Khaled,


Library Journal Starred, April 2013. Booklist starred, April 2013. Publisher's Weekly, March 2013. "In 1952 Afghanistan, Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters"--Provided by OCLC.
Date Published:2013

Bathe the cat

McGinty, Alice B., 1963-,


School Library Journal, November 2021. Horn Book Starred, January 2022. Publishers Weekly, September 2021. Booklist, November 2021. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), October 2021. Kirkus Review, November 2021. Dad has posted a list of chores for the family to do before grandma comes, including bathing the cat; but the cat does not want a bath, so she mixes up the instructions, and soon the family is mowing the floor, vacuuming the lawn, mopping the baby--and the house is in chaos.
Date Published:2021

School Library Journal, November 2021. Horn Book Starred, January 2022. Publishers Weekly, September 2021. Booklist, November 2021. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), October 2021. Kirkus Review, November 2021. Dad has posted a list of chores for the family to do before grandma comes, including bathing the cat; but the cat does not want a bath, so she mixes up the instructions, and soon the family is mowing the floor, vacuuming the lawn, mopping the baby--and the house is in chaos.

Date Published:2021

Best of all worlds

Oppel, Kenneth, 1967-,


School Library Journal starred, May 2025. Pub Weekly, April 2025. Booklist, May 2025. Horn Book, May 2025. Kirkus Review, April 2025. "Xavier Oaks doesn't particularly want to go to the cabin with his dad and his dad's pregnant new wife, Nia. But family obligations are family obligations, and it's only for a short time. So he leaves his mom, his brother, and his other friends behind for a week in the woods. Only . . . one morning he wakes up and the house isn't where it was before. It's like it's been lifted and placed . . . somewhere else. When Xavier, his dad, and Nia go explore, they find they are inside a dome, trapped. And there's no one else around . . . Until, three years later, another family arrives. Is there any escape? Is there a reason they are stuck where they are? Different people have different answers--and those different answers inexorably lead to tension, strife, and sacrifice"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2025

School Library Journal starred, May 2025. Pub Weekly, April 2025. Booklist, May 2025. Horn Book, May 2025. Kirkus Review, April 2025. "Xavier Oaks doesn't particularly want to go to the cabin with his dad and his dad's pregnant new wife, Nia. But family obligations are family obligations, and it's only for a short time. So he leaves his mom, his brother, and his other friends behind for a week in the woods. Only . . . one morning he wakes up and the house isn't where it was before. It's like it's been lifted and placed . . . somewhere else. When Xavier, his dad, and Nia go explore, they find they are inside a dome, trapped. And there's no one else around . . . Until, three years later, another family arrives. Is there any escape? Is there a reason they are stuck where they are? Different people have different answers--and those different answers inexorably lead to tension, strife, and sacrifice"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2025

Between Mom and Jo : a novel /

Peters, Julie Anne,


"Megan Tingley books." Wilson's Senior High School, November 2006. Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. School Library Journal starred, April 2006. Publisher's Weekly, June 2006. Booklist, March 2006. Horn Book, October 2006. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), July 2006. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2006. Kirkus Review, April 2006. Library Media Connection, January 2007. Fourteen-year-old Nick and his two mothers face prejudice, work problems, alcoholism, cancer, and finally separation.
Date Published:2008

"Megan Tingley books." Wilson's Senior High School, November 2006. Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. School Library Journal starred, April 2006. Publisher's Weekly, June 2006. Booklist, March 2006. Horn Book, October 2006. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), July 2006. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2006. Kirkus Review, April 2006. Library Media Connection, January 2007. Fourteen-year-old Nick and his two mothers face prejudice, work problems, alcoholism, cancer, and finally separation.

Date Published:2008

Frankly in love

Yoon, David,


School Library Journal starred, August 2019. Booklist starred, July 2019. Pub Weekly, June 2019. Kirkus Starred, July 2019. "High school senior Frank Li takes a risk to go after a girl his parents would never approve of, but his plans will leave him wondering if he ever really understood love--or himself--at all"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2019

Going down home with Daddy

Lyons, Kelly Starling,


School Library Journal starred, April 2019. Kirkus Starred, February 2019. Booklist, April 2019. Alan looks forward to the annual family reunion at the farm where Daddy grew up, but everyone is supposed to share something special and Alan worries about arriving with empty hands.
Date Published:2019

How you grow wings

Onoseta, Rimma,


School Library Journal starred, September 2022. Pub Weekly, June 2022. Kirkus Starred, June 2022. "Sisters Cheta and Zam's paths to break free of their oppressive home diverge wildly--one moves into an aunt's luxurious home and the other struggles to survive on her wits alone--and when they finally reunite, Zam realizes how far Cheta has fallen, leaving Cheta's fate in Zam's hands"--OCLC.
Date Published:2022

The last to let go

Smith, Amber, 1982-,


School Library Journal, December 2017. Booklist starred, November 2017. Publisher's Weekly, November 2017. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), February 2018. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2017. "When her mother is arrested for killing Brooke's abusive father, Brooke must confront the shadow of her family's violence and dysfunction"--
Date Published:2018

Little men

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888,


Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.
Date Published:2012

Lock and key

Dessen, Sarah,


Wilson's Senior High School, January 2009. School Library Journal, May 2008. Pub Weekly, February 2008. Booklist, February 2008. Horn Book, October 2008. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), May 2008. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2008. Kirkus Review, April 2008. Library Media Connection, November 2008. Kliatt, March 2008. When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.
Date Published:2009

Wilson's Senior High School, January 2009. School Library Journal, May 2008. Pub Weekly, February 2008. Booklist, February 2008. Horn Book, October 2008. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), May 2008. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2008. Kirkus Review, April 2008. Library Media Connection, November 2008. Kliatt, March 2008. When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.

Date Published:2009

Me & Earl & the dying girl

Andrews, Jesse,


Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
Date Published:2012

Me & Mama

Cabrera, Cozbi A.,


"A Denene Millner Book." School Library Journal starred, July 2020. Horn Book Starred, January 2021. Pub Weekly, September 2020. Booklist, July 2020. Kirkus Review, June 2020. "For a little girl on a rainy day, the best place to be is with Mama"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2020

The most beautiful thing

Yang, Kao Kalia, 1980-,


School Library Journal starred, November 2020. Kirkus Starred, August 2020. "Drawn from Kao Kalia Yang's childhood experiences as a Hmong refugee, this heartfelt picture book offers a window into the life of a family with little money and a great deal of love"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2020

Needy little things

Desamours, Channelle.


School Library Journal, January 2025. Booklist, November 2024. Publishers Weekly Annex, February 2025. Seventeen-year-old Sariyah, who can sense people's immediate needs, must use her ability to solve her friend's mysterious disappearance while dealing with family challenges and avoiding the same danger that befell her friend.
Date Published:2025

Of jade and dragons

Chen, Amber,


School Library Journal, July 2024. Publishers Weekly, March 2024. Booklist, May 2024. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), May 2024. Kirkus Review, May 2024. After her father's murder, eighteen-year-old Aihui Ying travels to the capital, where she discusses herself as her brother and infiltrates the Engineers Guild as she tries to solve her father's murder with help from a prince with plans of his own.
Date Published:2024

School Library Journal, July 2024. Publishers Weekly, March 2024. Booklist, May 2024. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), May 2024. Kirkus Review, May 2024. After her father's murder, eighteen-year-old Aihui Ying travels to the capital, where she discusses herself as her brother and infiltrates the Engineers Guild as she tries to solve her father's murder with help from a prince with plans of his own.

Date Published:2024

Someone to love me

Schraff, Anne E.,



Date Published:2002

Stardust family : the complete omnibus /

Poroyama, Aki,


Translation of: Hoshikuzu kazoku. This book reads from right to left in the traditional Japanese format. "Teen, T, L"--Back cover. "In the midst of a declining birth rate and rampant reportof child abuse, Japan has required prospective parents to pass a test for the right to conceive. The test's evaluatorsare children themselves, deliberately behaving badly to provoke couples into an aggressive response and disqualify them on the spot. Hikari is one such evaluator in this system, and he thinks he's seen it all-- that is, until he'sassigned to the Hirokawa family . . . "--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2025

Translation of: Hoshikuzu kazoku. This book reads from right to left in the traditional Japanese format. "Teen, T, L"--Back cover. "In the midst of a declining birth rate and rampant reportof child abuse, Japan has required prospective parents to pass a test for the right to conceive. The test's evaluatorsare children themselves, deliberately behaving badly to provoke couples into an aggressive response and disqualify them on the spot. Hikari is one such evaluator in this system, and he thinks he's seen it all-- that is, until he'sassigned to the Hirokawa family . . . "--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2025

The story of us

Caletti, Deb,


School Library Journal, March 2012. Booklist starred, January 2012. Publisher's Weekly, February 2012. Horn Book, May 2012. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2012. Library Media Connection, August 2012. Eighteen-year-old Cricket, having decided to take a break from her long-time boyfriend to sort out her love life, spends a week preparing for her mother's wedding and finds her life getting even more complicated by stepsisters who are against the marriage, a family secret revealed by her grandfather, the arrival of her mom's soon-to-be husband's ex, and feelings for a sweet and sexy guy she just met.
Date Published:2013

School Library Journal, March 2012. Booklist starred, January 2012. Publisher's Weekly, February 2012. Horn Book, May 2012. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2012. Library Media Connection, August 2012. Eighteen-year-old Cricket, having decided to take a break from her long-time boyfriend to sort out her love life, spends a week preparing for her mother's wedding and finds her life getting even more complicated by stepsisters who are against the marriage, a family secret revealed by her grandfather, the arrival of her mom's soon-to-be husband's ex, and feelings for a sweet and sexy guy she just met.

Date Published:2013

Where I belong

Mickelson, Marcia Argueta,


School Library Journal starred, November 2021. Kirkus Starred, July 2021. Booklist, October 2021. "Guatemalan-American high school senior Millie Vargas struggles to balance her family's needs with her own ambitions, especially after her mother's employer, a Senate candidate, uses Millie as a poster child for 'deserving' immigrants"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2021

Woe : a housecat's story of despair /

Knisley, Lucy,


School Library Journal, June 2024. Kirkus Starred, May 2024. Booklist, July 2024. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), August 2024. Collected into a graphic novel for the first time, these webcomics take readers into the dramatic world of Linney the House Cat, whose purrfectly hilarious antics, hair-raising habits and cattitude show readers just how amazing, and what a true gift, cats are.
Date Published:2024