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101) Crazy
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English
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While growing up in the 1960s, Laura uses art to cope with her mother's mental illness.
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"Anna Chiu has her hands full. When she's not looking after her brother and sister or helping out at her father's restaurant, she's taking care of her mother, whose debilitating mental illness keeps her in bed most days. Her father's new delivery boy, Rory, is a welcome distraction and even though she knows that things aren't right at home, she's starting to feel like she could be a normal teen."--Publisher
104) My camp-out
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English
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A young girl camps out in her bedroom and is joined by her mother.
106) A monster like me
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English
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Convinced that if she looks like a monster on the outside (a blood tumor covers half of her face), she must be a monster on the inside as well, Sophie tries to find a cure before her mother finds out the truth.
109) Fairy mermaid magic
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Fairy Mom and me volume 4
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English
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A latest entry in the popular series finds Ella the aspiring fairy chasing a robber during a school trip, swimming with actual mermaids and using magic coloring pencils to help her mother decorate the family kitchen.
111) I want my mom!
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English
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The Little Princess can face anything, as long as her mother is there when she calls.
112) The weight of water
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2013.
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English
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Twelve-year-old Kasienka and her mother have immigrated to Coventry, England from Poland, searching for Kasienka's father, but everyone is unfriendly except for an African neighbor and a boy Kasienka meets at the swimming pool, which is her only refuge from an alien society.
113) Merrow
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Secrets of Carrick volume 1
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English
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Enduring whispers about her absent mother's alleged merrow origins after her father drowns, twelve-year-old Neen questions her identity as she becomes increasingly torn between the worlds of the sea and her island home.
114) Bad hair day
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Franny tries to follow her mother's suggestion to change her appearance, but by turning hair styling into a science experiment she creates some very greedy pigtails that terrorize the town.
115) Zel
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1996.
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First edition.
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English
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Based on the fairy tale Rapunzel, the story is told in alternating chapters from the point of view of Zel, her mother, and the prince, and delves into the psychological motivations of the characters.
116) There will be lies
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2015.
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English
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Shelby Cooper, nearly eighteen, has been overprotected by her single mother all her life but after a car accident, Shelby's mother steals her away from the hospital, revealing that Shelby's father is not dead, but rather a violent man who promised to hunt them down.
117) Everlasting Nora
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English
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The story of a young girl living in the real life shanty town inside the Philippines' North Manila Cemetery.
118) Wish you were Eyre
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Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 6
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English
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The girls--along with their Wyoming pen pals, who drop in for a visit over Spring Break--dive into Charlotte Brönte's classic "Jane Eyre." Some real life romance follows, as Becca may have found a Mr. Rochester of her own. And then there's the matter of a certain wedding ....
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In the early twentieth century, five sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances, journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor, home, Tesla's inventions will either doom or save them all.
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