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81) Finding family
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English
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Young Delana is brought up by her grandfather and Aunt Tilley, who keeps her from experiencing a normal life. After Aunt Tilley dies, Delana searches for answers in antique photographs and Tilley's ficticious stories about her unknown father and family. Includes black-and-white reproductions of antique photos.
82) al-Ānīsah roaʻā
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Arabic
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Miss Splendid lives in a mansion with a golden bathtub and thinks she is better than everyone else. When she goes to town and sees a new hat in the window of a store that she simply must have, she buys it. When she's walking home, her friends ask her if she wants to take the bus and she refuses. It starts to rain and it ruins her new hat, but she feels better afterwards when she gets home and sees herself in the mirror.
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English
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"A bright, contemporary and fearless novel about an ordinary extraordinary eleven-year-old trying to win back her best friend and get her mother to stop sighing. Cricket Karlsson is going to become an artist just like her aunt, who loves cheese and art and always speaks her mind. Not like Cricket's mother, who is dieting and sighs at everything. But now Aunt Frannie has lost her joy and Cricket's best friend has dumped her for the horse girls. Eleven-year-old...