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Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Calliope Silversmith's lifelong friendships are transformed when she starts dating new neighbor, Max, but her life is turned upside-down when she learns the identity of the sperm donor her mothers chose.
Calliope Silversmith has never wanted anything more than her best friends Ginger and Noah, her moms, their house in the woods, and their family-run yoga studio-- except maybe knowing who her sperm donor is. When Max and his family...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"If she's being honest, Sammie Lucas is scared of her son. Working from home in the close quarters of their Florida house, she lives with one wary eye peeled on Samson, a sullen, unknowable boy who resists her every attempt to bond with him. Uncertain in her own feelings about motherhood, she tries her best--driving, cleaning, cooking, prodding him to finish projects for school--while growing increasingly resentful of Monika, her confident but absent...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xix, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A professor of English literature presents a memoir of family, identity, and acceptance that examines the messiness and complexity of adoption and parenthood from a black, queer, and feminist perspective.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali is looking forward to going to Caltech and getting away from her conservative Muslim parents' expectation that she will marry, especially since she is in love with her girlfriend Ariana--but when her parents catch her kissing Ariana, they whisk Rukhsana off to Bangladesh and a world of tradition and arranged marriages, and she must find the courage to fight for the right to choose her own path.
25) For Lamb
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north--if only he could curb...
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
2nd ed., 10th anniversary ed.
Lexile measure
AD 460L
Physical Desc
48 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When Heather goes to playgroup, at first she feels bad because she has two mothers and no father, but then she learns that there are lots of different kinds of families and the most important thing is that all the people love each other.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-six and broke, Skye didn't think twice before selling her eggs and happily pocketing the cash. Now approaching forty, Skye moves through life entirely--and unrepentantly--on her own terms, living out of a suitcase and avoiding all manner of serious relationships. Her personal life might be a mess, and no one would be surprised if she died alone in a hotel room, but at least she's free to do as she pleases. But then a twelve-year-old girl shows...
29) Brown, white, black: an American family at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and religion
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Essays describe how the author's experiences as an Indian American, the wife of a white Christian woman, and the mother of an adopted black son have been challenged by rigid cultural family norms.
Author
Series
House on Sunrise Lagoon volume 1
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Cleis Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The heartwarming true story of a special needs baby and the unconventional family who fought for her right to live. Andréa Odd-Dahl, who with support from her partner Keston Ott-Dahl has two other children, agreed to act as a pregnancy surrogate for a wealthy Silicon Valley couple. When pre-natal testing revealed the baby would be born with Down syndrome, Andréa was urged to abort the child. Instead, the Ott-Dahl's chose to raise the daughter they...
Author
Description
The heartwarming true story of a special needs baby and the unconventional family who fought for her right to live. Andr©♭a Odd-Dahl, who with support from her partner Keston Ott-Dahl has two other children, agreed to act as a pregnancy surrogate for a wealthy Silicon Valley couple. When pre-natal testing revealed the baby would be born with Down syndrome, Andr©♭a was urged to abort the child. Instead, the Ott-Dahl's chose to raise the daughter...
Author
Series
House on Sunrise Lagoon volume 2
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
35) My moms love me
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Perfect for reading aloud with its rhyming, rhythmic text, this picture book finds two mommies sharing a perfect day with their little one, from visiting animals on a farm to bedtime snuggles.
Author
Language
English
Description
This memoir is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, an identity, a home, and a mother by the author of "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"--winner of the Whitbread First Novel award and the inspiration behind the award-winning BBC television adaptation "Oranges."
38) Summer of salt
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
No one on the island of By-the-Sea would call the Fernweh women what they are, but if you need the odd bit of help, such as a sleeping aid concocted by moonlight, they are the ones to ask. Georgina Fernweh waits for the tingle of magic in her fingers-- magic that has already touched her twin sister, Mary. But with her eighteenth birthday looming at the end of her last summer on the island, Georgina fears her gift will never come. She meets and falls...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
20 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 18 x 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Families with same-sex parents are celebrated in this board book that follows busy moms and their kids throughout their day-eating breakfast, going on a playdate, heading to the pool for a swim, and settling back in at night with a bedtime story and a good-night lullaby. LGBTQ+ parents and their friends and families will welcome this diverse and cheerful book that reflects their own lives and family makeup.
Twice the moms means twice the love in...