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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Owen Foote, Frontiersman	Stephanie Greene	Second grader Owen Foote is looking forward to spending time with his friend Joseph in their tree fort, until some bullies visiting his neighbor, Mrs. Gold, threaten to wreck the fort.	OL102453W
Last Kiss	Luanne Rice	New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice returns to Hubbard's Point, Connecticut, and to characters from her beloved Beach Girls, to tell the haunting story of a close-knit community grappling w…	OL106201W
I Need a Snake	Lynne Jonell	A young boy really wants a snake of his own, and after his mother reads a book about snakes and takes him to a museum and a pet store to see some, he finds his own pet "snakes" around the house.	OL115610W
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
Alfie runs away	Richard Michelson	Told he must give up his favorite, now too-small, shoes, Alfie leaves home, but not before his mother persuades him to take all of the things he might need while he is gone	OL12005855W
Jewish marriage and divorce in imperial Russia / ChaeRan Y. Freeze	ChaeRan Y Freeze	"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and an African American, he is offended and angered by the success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, the explo…	OL12330723W
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
Fierce people	Dirk Wittenborn	"New York's Lower East Side, 1978. Fifteen-year-old Finn Earl's mother, Liz, is a thirty-two-year-old masseuse with a taste for cocaine. When Liz's habit reaches its breaking point, she seeks sanctua…	OL129250W
Sointula	Bill Gaston	"At the heart of Sointula is Evelyn, the mayor's wife in a mid-size southern Ontario city. Unexpectedly summoned to British Columbia to attend to the deathbed of her long-ago first lover, Claude, Eve…	OL133483W
Mama, will you hold my hand?	Anna Pignataro	A mother assures her son that they will always be together, no matter what comes their way.	OL13604225W
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 happiest mommy ever	Alice Furniss	A mother tells her young son about the happiest times of her life.	OL13648752W
Annie's Ghosts	Steve Luxenberg	Beth Luxenberg was an only child. Everyone knew it: her grown children, her friends, even people she’d only recently met. So when her secret emerged, her son Steve Luxenberg was bewildered. He was ce…	OL13759939W
The well	A. J. Whitten	Fourteen-year-old Cooper must face a monster trapped for two centuries in a well near his stepfather's Maine vineyard or risk everything that he holds dear, including his girlfriend, Megan.	OL13768244W
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
Saving Henry	Laurie Strongin	"A heartbreaking story, exquisitely told...Laurie Strongin's integrity, humanity, and wisdom are an inspiration to the rest of us."—David Shenk, author of The ForgettingSaving Henry is the eye-openin…	OL13806340W
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
You're a brave man, Julius Zimmerman	Claudia Mills	Twelve-year-old Julius has his hands full over the summer when his mother attempts to improve his grades and teach him responsibility by signing him up for a French class and getting him a job babysi…	OL14418W
What the Cat Dragged In (Jacques and Cleo, Cat Detectives #1)	Gilbert Morris	In their debut mystery, Jacques, Cleo, and the humans they own—Kate Forrest and her son, Jeremy—move to a beautiful beach house in White Sands, Alabama, left to Kate by a distant relative. The catch…	OL14854844W
Tucky the hunter	James Dickey	A child hunts the animals of the world with a pop gun and the snare of his imagination.	OL14856951W