Holly Goldberg Sloan
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Unhappy about being sent to the same summer camp after their fathers start dating, Bett and Avery, two girls, age eleven, eventually begin scheming to get the couple back together after a break-up. Told entirely through letters, emails and text messages.
3) Short
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English
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"Julia is very short for her age, but by the end of the summer run of The Wizard of Oz, she'll realize how big she is inside, where it counts. She hasn't ever thought of herself as a performer, but when the wonderful director of Oz casts her as a Munchkin, she begins to see herself in a new way. As Julia becomes friendly with the poised and wise Olive--one of the adults with dwarfism who've joined the production's motley crew of Munchkins--and with...
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Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"From New York Times bestselling author Holly Goldberg Sloan, a hilarious and heartfelt novel for fans of Maria Semple and Emma Straub about a family trying to restore a ramshackle beachside motel-and their own lives. What good was thinking the future only held cloudy skies? Wasn't the reality that pieces of blue were always there, waiting to break through? When Paul Hill drowns in a surfing accident, he leaves his wife, Lindsey, and their three children...
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Raised by an unstable father who keeps constantly on the move, Sam Border has long been the voice of his silent younger brother, Riddle, but everything changes when Sam meets Emily Bell and, welcomed by her family, the brothers are faced with normalcy for the first time.
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Little, Brown and Company
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English
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Emily Bell has it all. She's in love with a boy named Sam Border, and his little brother has become part of her family. This summer is destined to be the best time of their lives--until a charismatic new girl in town sets her sights on Sam. Now Emily finds herself questioning the loyalty of the person she thought she could trust most. But the biggest threat to her happiness is someone she never saw coming. Sam's criminally insane father, whom everyone...
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Océano Exprés
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
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"Willow tiene doce años, es superdotada y su gran pasión son las plantas, las enfermedades y el número siete. Sus padres adoptivos son su única familia y sus verdaderos amigos, pero cuando éstos mueren en un accidente se da cuenta de que está sola en un mundo con el que no es capaz de relacionarse. A partir de ese momento, la vida de Willow se convierte en un viaje transformador en el que gracias a sus manías y a su extraordinaria sensibilidad,...
10) Pequena
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Grantravesía
Pub. Date
2018.
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Español
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Todo comienza cuando su madre la anima a participar en el musical de El mago de Oz. a medida que Julia se hace amiga de Olive, una de las adultas con enanismo que froman parte del variopinto equipo de la obra, y de su anciana pero artística vecina, la señora Chang, crece el entusiasmo de Julia por la apasionante aventura que vive sobre el escenario. ¡Y lo mejor de todo es que su director tieneplanes más "grandes" para Julia!
"Very short for her...
11) The big green
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English
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A British schoolteacher arrives in sleepy Elma, Teas and decides to form a soccer team to motivate her students. She enlists the aid of an out-of-shape sheriff who agrees to coach the team so he can beat his old nemesis, the ruthless coach of the big city bullies, the Knights. What starts out as a disaster soon becomes a hilarious fight to the finish as The Big Green struggle to overcome their own shortcomings to beat the Knights.
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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Steve attemps to relocate a hugh crocodile to save him from poachers. But what Steve doesn't know is that the big croc has swallowed a top-secret U.S. satellite beacon ... making them both targets of the U.S. special agents assigned to retrieve the beacon.
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Hallmark Hall Of Fame Productions
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Nell's a newly single mom who wants this Christmas to be extra special for her two kids. It turns out to be special, indeed, but it's not what she had in mind. Everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Chaos reigns in this entertaining comedy, and the notion of 'family' takes on a whole new meaning.
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Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
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English
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Whispers, an innocent baby elephant who's just learning to walk on his own four feet, finds himself separated from his mother Gentle Heart. In his desperate search to find her, he meets the cynical loner Groove, an outcast from her own herd who never wanted to be a mother. Together, this unlikely pair braves danger after danger on their journey to find water and Whispers' mother.
