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Grandpa takes care of the garden, kneads bread, and makes music on the piano. Everyone in Callie's family helps out around the house, now that Grandpa, who has Alzheimer's, lives with them. The family becomes Grandpa's "home team," and Callie loves spending time with them. As months go by, Grandpa forgets more, and he can't do as much as he could before. But he can still make music - his fingers remember the notes on the piano. And when he can't recall...
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In a book far ahead of its time, All Kinds of Families celebrated the broad diversity of American families when it was first published in 1976. Now Norma Simon and Sarah S. Brannen have updated this classic for the modern age. Multicultural and multigenerational people demonstrate what being in a family means and how all families offer each other support and love.
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When a loved one dies, remembering them through shared experiences and the ways they expressed their love, helps with loss.
Bushra misses her mother, her dayik. So does her brother Sherzat. Mom used to help them with homework, read to them, and tuck them into bed at night. For Bushra, she would cook kubbat halab, perfectly golden rice-and-potato patties made without meat. No one can make kubbat halab quite like Mom, but Bushra wants to try.
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Celebrate AANHPI heritage with a collection of stories inspired by Diwali, Holi, Ramadan, and Tanabata.
Encourage kids to learn more about themselves and people around the world with this collection of four stories featuring Asian characters and customs. This collection includes Holi Hai!, Shubh Diwali!, The Star Festival, and Under the Ramadan Moon.
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Grandpa was never bar mitzvahed, it was wartime, and life was difficult. It's been a regret his whole life. Many years later, it's his grandson's time to go through the Jewish ritual of coming of age. The father suggests that they be bar mitzvahed together. They study together, recite together, and celebrate together.
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No two families are the same, but every family is special.
When Mrs. Mack says she will soon be a grandmother, her students realize that teachers have families just like they do! Suddenly everyone in the class wants to share information about his or her own unique family. Sarah tells of flying to China with her parents where they adopted her sister, Rachel. Christopher tells about his parents' divorce. They are still a family, but now he and his...
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A boy and his mom continue the family tradition of participating in the annual bird count. Since Gramps went South for the winter, the boy hopes to spot Gramps's favorite bird for him-a dove! But, with so many different birds in the nature preserve, will he be able to spot one? This heart-warming family story about nature celebrates a holiday census that was first started in 1900 and happens every year.
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Twelve-year-old aspiring forest ranger Maggie Chowder wants to be just like her favorite comic superhero, the Exceptional Eagirl. So when her dad loses his job and her family moves from a house to a small apartment, Maggie is determined to make the most of her new circumstances. But it's not always easy to be strong like Eagirl when her best friend LaTanya gets to move into a big house and get a puppy because her dad has been recruited to coach for...
13) Everybody's Home
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Another Lola Jones escapade with our book-loving third grader! Lola and her twenty-nine classmates don't understand the words to a traditional song they're meant to sing at the upcoming Winter Concert, so they make up their own, very silly (and very funny) words. Lola's mother and her Grampa get involved too, and we all learn not only the words to the song, but something about global warming, by the time of the concert.
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Ruby's cousin Avital is sad because her mom is going to be away on a work trip during Hanukkah. To help make sure Avital still has a happy holiday, Ruby plans an enormous eight-night treasure hunt. But, will she be able to think up a good enough surprise for Avital to discover on the final night?
15) The D.O.G
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Lola is back! Fresh from her escapades at her school when the principal is not exactly impressed with her very unusual pigtails, and straight from her hard-pressed victory with the boys, who don't want to let the girls play soccer, Lola now has to convince her mother that having a dog is a good idea.
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Lola and her friends want to play soccer. The boys don't want them to. The girls are not only good players, they're also strategic, and end up scoring for the team.
17) Applesauce day
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Maria enjoys her annual family tradition of visiting an orchard, picking apples, and making applesauce at her grandmother's house.
18) Shubh Diwali!
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Diwali has arrived. Rangoli art decorates the floor and strings of flowers hang around the doors. Now it's time to ring the bells, light the lamps, and welcome the new year with family and friends. An introduction to the Hindu festival of lights.
19) The Purim Panic
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Can Ruby find her special ring in time for the Purim celebration?
Ruby loves making hamantaschen with her family and dressing up in her Queen Esther costume on Purim. But as she gets ready for this year's celebration, she realizes she's lost the special ring Bubbe gave her for Hanukkah. Will her relatives be able to help her find it?
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It's almost Thanksgiving, and Tuyet is excited about the holiday and the vacation from school. There's just one problem: her Vietnamese American family is having duck for Thanksgiving dinner - not turkey! Nobody has duck for Thanksgiving - what will her teacher and the other kids think? To her surprise, Tuyet enjoys her yummy thanksgiving dinner anyhow - and an even bigger surprise is waiting for her at school on Monday. Dinners from roast beef to...
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