mothers and daughters

Almost Paradise

Icon: 
Book icon
Copies: 6

Twelve-year-old Ruby Clyde Henderson’s life changes the day her mother’s boyfriend holds up a convenience store, and her mother is wrongly jailed for assisting with the crime. Ruby and her pet pig, Bunny, find their way to her estranged Aunt Eleanor's home. Aunt Eleanor is an ornery nun who lives in the midst of a peach orchard on Paradise Ranch. With a little patience, she and Ruby begin to get along, but Eleanor has secrets of her own―secrets that might mean more hard times for Ruby.

Lexile: 
730L
Almost Paradise

Rules for Stealing Stars

Icon: 
Book icon
Copies: 6

In the tradition of Sharon Creech and Wendy Mass, Corey Ann Haydu's sparkling middle grade debut is a sister story with a twist of magic, a swirl of darkness, and a whole lot of hope.

Lexile: 
720L
Rules for Stealing Stars

Little Women

Icon: 
ebook icon

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England.

Little Women

My Name is Mina

Icon: 
Book icon
Copies: 8

Mina loves the night. While everyone else is in a deep slumber, she gazes out the window, witness to the moon's silvery light. In the stillness, she can even hear her own heart beating. This is when Mina feels that anything is possible, that her imagination is set free.

Author: 
My Name is Mina