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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Juan Bobo sends the pig to Mass	Arí Acevedo-Feliciano	While his mother goes to church, Juan cares for the pig--with humorous results.	OL11822663W
My Oedipus Complex	Frank O'Connor	A child's jealousy of his place in his mother's life erupts when his father comes home from the war, not to subside until a new baby arrives placing his father and him in the same position.	OL1195439W
The silent gift	Michael Landon	The 1930s were a decade of enormous uncertainty--for the world, for America, and in particular for one lonely, struggling mother and her disabled son. Their story is one of love and enormous sacrific…	OL12370560W
There are no scary wolves	Hyewon Yum	A little boy is afraid of scary wolves without his mother, but when she is holding his hand he is much braver.	OL13619851W
The Wet Nurse's Tale	Erica Eisdorfer	Bright and clever with a sharp-tongued, adventurous heroine who offers a candid and often funny look at the business of nursing babies in Victorian England, this is a debut novel that will have every…	OL13773581W
Esther Waters, a novel	George Moore	Quoting Wikipedia: "Set in England from the early 1870s onward, the novel is about a young, pious woman from a poor working class family who, while working as a kitchen maid, is seduced by another em…	OL1381165W
The Wild Things	Dave Eggers	In a stunning act of imagination, Dave Eggers has adapted Maurice Sendak's children's classic, Where the Wild Things Are, into this richly drawn full-length novel, the story of a lonely boy navigatin…	OL14957750W
The wild baby goes to sea	Barbro Lindgren	While his mother cleans house, rambunctious baby Ben sets sail in a wooden box and has many adventures.	OL15124307W
A question of trust	Marion Dane Bauer	After his mother leaves the family, Brad involves his younger brother in a plan to get her to come home and deals with his feelings of rejection by taking care of a newborn kitten.	OL15150062W
Texas Trouble	Kathleen O'Brien	It all starts with the kid...Life was better for Logan Cathcart before he crossed paths with nine-year-old Sean Archer. Because now he has to face the kid's mom, Nora. It's not that Logan doesn't lik…	OL15173456W
Soldier's Secret Child	Caridad Pineiro	At eighteen, Macy Ward had turned to Fisher Yates for a single night of comfort...and then Fisher joined the military while she married another man. Years later, she is a single mother, and Fisher is…	OL15178602W
Greg Gets a Hint	Susan Blackaby	Read-it! Readers…will delight children while strengthening their independent reading skills. Read-it! Readers and Read-it! Readers en Espanol are simple and effective ways to get the reading results …	OL15189499W
Jude	Kate Morgenroth	Still reeling from his drug-dealing father's murder, moving in with the wealthy mother he never knew, and transferring to a private school, fifteen year old Jude is tricked into pleading guilty to a …	OL15412854W
Probation	Tom Mendicino	All it took to destroy Andy Nocera's seemingly perfect life was an anonymous tryst at an Interstate rest area. Sentenced to probation and thrown out by his wife, he spends his week as a traveling sal…	OL15522360W
Mom, it's my first day of kindergarten!	Hyewon Yum	A five-year-old boy, ready and eager on his first day at "the big kids' school," must calm his very worried mother.	OL15980266W
The CEO's secret baby	Karen Whiddon	Seeing Tucker Drover--the man she loved more than life itself and presumed dead in a plane crash--shakes Lucy Knowlton's world. How will she tell him about their baby boy--and her engagement to his b…	OL16454949W
Walking home to Rosie Lee	A. LaFaye	At the end of the Civil War, young Gabe meets many other former slaves getting a feel for freedom whose kindness helps him in his quest to find his mother, who was sold away.	OL16470008W
The Hamilton case	Michelle De Kretser	Set in the 1930s in Ceylon, this novel reflects the decay, corruption and last days of an empire and a world at the end of its tether. The story concerns a murder scandal that shakes the upper echelo…	OL16612115W
'Twas The Night After Christmas(Connected to Hellions of Halstead Hall)	Sabrina Jeffries	The Letter Dear Sir, I feel I should inform you that your mother is very ill. If you wish to see her before it is too late, you should come at once. Sincerely, Mrs. Camilla Stuart -…	OL16626834W
This magnificent desolation	Thomas O'Malley	Duncan's entire world is the orphanage where he lives, a solitary outpost in the snowy expanse of northern Minnesota. Aged ten, he cannot remember his life to this point, but he has stories that he r…	OL16704805W