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Warrior Princess. That’s what Nigeria Jones’s father calls her. He has raised her as part of the Movement, a Black separatist group based in Philadelphia. Nigeria is homeschooled and vegan and participates in traditional rituals to connect her and other kids from the group to their ancestors. But when her mother—the perfect matriarch of their Movement—disappears, Nigeria’s world is upended. She finds herself taking care of her baby brother...

Twelve-year-old Caddy's world turns upside down when her father, Bill, temporarily becomes a stay at home "mom" and her best friends since kindergarten, Ali, Beth, and Ruby, begin to move in different directions.

Despite her fatal allergy to sunlight, XP, and the risk to all she holds dear, Allie Kim is determined to see Garrett Tabor brought to justice and may get her chance when she and Rob uncover a horrible secret Tabor has hidden under Lake Superior.

The tale of two sisters in a Southern town during World War II. They are always bickering and have to open a beauty salon to pay for a soda fountain they demolished during a fight. On Civil Air Patrol duty they sound the siren, mistaking a flight of geese for German dive bombers.

"Derek Fallon discovers all the angst that comes with being twelve--he just wants to feel grown up, but life gets in the way with a series of mishaps that make him look like a baby"--

Benny's friend accompanies the Aldens to the South Seas for a vacation on a supposedly deserted island where they find an unusual mystery.

"A breathtaking and redemptive novel from the award-winning and Man Bookernominated author Donal Ryan Melody Shee is alone and in trouble. At 33 years-old, she finds herself pregnantwith the child of a 17 year-old Traveller boy, Martin Toppy, and not by herhusband Pat. Melody was teaching Martin to read, but now he's gone, and Patleaves too, full of rage. She's trying to stay in the moment, but the future islooming, while the past won't let her go....

The King and Queen realize they need to call the Little Princess by her real name now that she's actually not so little any more. But there's trouble . . . the Princess's real name is so awful that nobody can pluck up the courage to tell her what it is! The Princess is determined to find out her true name. But what will happen when she does? ? ONIX annotations:Perfect for inspiring reading confidence in young bookworms, these full-colour first readers...

When Kevie's mother has a baby, Kevie, his older brother, and their father make soup for when the new baby comes home.

In the aftermath of her beloved husband's drowning death, Ella's initial support from her in-laws dissolves as long-buried secrets and family tragedies are revealed in the wake of a bitter custody battle against her stepchildren's biological mother.