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Monster Mender
A monster-mender works hard to heal all wounds, but struggles to help a sea serpent who just seems … sad.
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In this companion to best-selling titles A Family Is a Family Is a Family and A Kid Is a Kid Is a Kid, a child explores how to make a friend.
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ages 9
to 99
/ grades 4
to 12
Tay naja nitajtaketzki achtu tik Nawat / Mis primeras palabras en nahuat / My First Words in Nahuat
A celebration of the Nahuat language and culture, presented as a collection of poems in Nahuat, Spanish and English, about growing up in the Salvadoran village of Witzapan.
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ages 3
to 6
/ grades P
to 1
Fly Away Home
Driven from her nest, Little Bird crosses paths with other migrating animals, including humans, looking for a safe place to call home.
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A child touchingly narrates the ups and downs of living with a parent who experiences mental illness, over time learning to cope with their feelings.
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Temporary Palaces
For readers of Jennifer Egan and Heather O’Neill comes a blazing debut novel set in the DIY music and arts scene of the early 2000s
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Pitiful
Part self-interrogation, part hospital diary, these heartbreakingly frank poems detail the author’s struggles with eating disorders and depression.
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Ultra Blue
Ultra Blue is a sequence of poems about the emotional lives of boys and the challenges of growing up within contemporary masculinity.
