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English
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"The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts gives a new twist to the home invasion horror story in a heart-palpitating novel of psychological suspense that recalls Stephen King's Misery, Ruth Ware's In a Dark, Dark Wood, and Jack Ketchum's cult hit The Girl Next Door"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For one little girl, there's no place she'd rather be than sitting between Mama and Mommy. So when Mommy goes away on a work trip, it's tricky to find a good place at the table. As the days go by, Mama brings her to the library, they watch movies, and all of them talk on the phone, but she still misses Mommy as deep as the ocean and as high as an astronaut up in the stars. As they pass by a beautiful garden, the girl gets an idea . . . but when Mommy...
4) Give or take
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A man's estranged father unexpectedly dies, so he goes home to Cape Cod and prepares the house for sale while sharing it with his father's temperamental live-in boyfriend. Grieving, they circle each other, butt heads, and negotiate how to remember the different man they both loved, and the significance of what he left behind.
6) I promise
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Featuring tender-hearted illustrations by renowned artist Syrus Marcus Ware, I Promise captures with love and honesty the intimate moments of parenting in all their messy gloryfrom dealing with a kid who doesnt want to brush their teeth to looking under the bed for monsters to cuddling after a long day."--
Author
Publisher
Mango Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Yes, you do have options. Same-sex couples (gay dads, lesbian moms, or other queer couples) are faced with many different options when choosing to have a family that includes beautiful children. In Journey to Parenthood, author, activist and father Eric Rosswood guides and helps prospective LGBTQIA parents explore adoption, foster care, assisted reproduction, surrogacy and co-parenting. Create your own happy family unit. Each section includes a description...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
AD 460L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Heather's favorite number is two. She has two arms, two legs, and two pets. And she also has two mommies. When Heather goes to school for the first time, someone asks her about her daddy, but Heather doesn't have a daddy. Then something interesting happens. When Heather and her classmates all draw pictures of their families, not one drawing is the same. It doesn't matter who makes up a family, the teacher says, because "the most important thing about...
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A guidebook for Queer families on how to live into your true selves and strengthen your communities through radical love, acceptance, and mutual healing. With hands-on tools for learning and reflection in each chapter, this book will help you embrace Queerness, take ownership of your journey, and use your voice to bring light to your communities"--
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A tight-knit family...are taken hostage by four armed strangers while vacationing at a remote cabin. The visitors demand that the young girl and her parents make an unthinkable choice: to save their family or save humanity." --container.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Liv fights to change the middle school dress code requiring girls to wear a skirt and, along the way, finds the courage to tell his moms he is meant to be a boy.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nine-year-old Sumac Lottery considers it her job to make sure none of the Lottery celebrations are forgotten, especially now at Christmas time, and in her large, gay, and multiethnic family there are a lot of occasions for celebration in the house they all call Camelottery--but when a terrible ice storm hits Toronto, one of her dads, and her favorite brother cannot make it home from India, and it becomes increasingly difficult to hang on to the holiday...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Richie Jackson's son born through surrogacy comes out to him at the age of 18, Richie - now in his 50s, a successful producer and happily married - feels compelled to write him a letter. Gay Like Me is both a celebration of gay identity and a sorrowful warning. Jackson talks of his own progress and growth as a gay man coming of age through decades of political and cultural change. We've come a long way, he argues: discrimination is now outlawed...
16) Beginners
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
About how funny and transformative life can be. When graphic designer Oliver meets free-spirited Anna shortly after his father has passed away, Oliver realizes just how much of a beginner he is when it comes to long-lasting romantic love. Memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 45 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life, encourage Oliver to open himself up to the...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Although not thrilled when her summer plans are upended for a surprise cross-country train trip with her family and embarrassed because one of her moms is writing a tell-all book about the trip, twelve-year-old Sara Johnston-Fischer finds herself changing along with the landscape outside the train windows.
Author
Publisher
Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Centering on the story of Ben Barnz and his husband adopting a child. We alternates between legal suspense story and memoir, examining shifting gender roles in parenting and modern notions of family-construction. The book interweaves Barnz's path to parenthood beginning with his closted youth in the 1980's New York, a time when it was statistically more likely he would die from AIDS than become a father. We delves into the complicated relationships...
Author
Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Lexile measure
GN 570L
Language
English
Description
Grace's excitement to accompany her "fun" mom on a delivery to Titan quickly turns to frustration when her mom is too preoccupied with her mission to spend time with Grace, yet when their ship stops working on their return home it is up to Grace to save the day.
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