Alternative Family

Celebrating families everywhere, in children's very own words. Exploring the endearing things that children say about their loved ones, with adorable pictures of baby animals, this beautiful hardback treasury brings together six favourite...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506482866Author Candy WellinsFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Beaming BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728215525Author Cat ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 267Imprint Sourcebooks, IncPublisher Sourcebooks, IncWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 133mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Ezra Jack Keats New Writer/Illustrator Award.Book InformationISBN 9780763657529Author Meg MedinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Candlewick Press,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781481451536Author Kay ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Little SimonPublisher Little SimonWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 196mm * 5mm

The Secret Garden with a twist: in this follow-up to Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, this full-color graphic novel moves Mary Lennox to a New York City brownstone, where she and her very first group of friends restore an abandoned rooftop garden...and her...

STRICTLY PRIVATE. KEEP OUT ON PAIN OF DEATH.I'm Tracy Beaker - have you heard of me? I'm stuck in The Dumping Ground just at the moment, but I'm sure my Mum will come and get me soon. A certain Justine-Hateful-Littlewood has stolen my best friend Louise...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759556256Author Neil Patrick HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 1344Imprint Little, Brown Books for Young ReadersPublisher Little, Brown Books for Young...

The magical follow-up to The Monster Who Wasn't. The second book in this brilliantly rich and strange fantasy series will make us all believe in monsters - be they good, bad or somewhere in between. Sam might be half-monster and half-fairy, but since...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Cybils Awards 2023 (United States).Book InformationISBN 9781632063373Author Sachiko KashiwabaFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Restless BooksPublisher...

"The pride primer." -The New YorkerAn excellent tool for teaching respect, acceptance, and understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.This day in June.... Parade starts soon.... Rainbow arches.... Joyful marches! In a wildly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781077909434Author Marina SaumellFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 216g

The Lotterys More or Less is bestselling author Emma Donoghue's warm, funny and compelling novel about a thoroughly modern family, illustrated by Caroline Hadilaksono.Sumac Lottery is the fifth of seven kids who share their big house with four parents,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553499407Author Suzanne LangPage Count 32Imprint Random House StudioPublisher Random House StudioWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 179mm * 179mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of IODE Jean Throop Book Award 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780735264069Author Sharon HampsonFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice...

Reminiscent of Doll Bones and Small Spaces, this "delightfully eerie" (Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows) middle grade novel tells the story of a girl who must rescue her aunt by entering a world of ghosts,...

Hi, I'm Rumi.Some of my friends have one mom and one dad.Some have one mom or one dad.I have two dads. Daddy and Dada.Daddy sings songs with me. Dada reads me stories.Every family is different.And that's pretty cool.This sweet, open-hearted book began as...

Tittle-tattle Talia is a story about a young girl who can not resist a juicy story. She is always talking about other people and she loves the attention she gets from those who listen to her tales. Despite warnings to stop, she doesn't see why a bit of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781459824843Author Robin StevensonFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Orca Book Publishers,CanadaPublisher Orca Book Publishers,CanadaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of IndieFab awards (Family & Relationships) 2005 and Midwest Book Award (MIPA) (Interior Book Design) 2005 and Midwest Book Award (MIPA) (Illustration) 2005...

Five years. That's how long twelve-year-old Coyote and her dad, River, have lived on the road in an old school bus, criss-crossing the nation. It's also how long ago Coyote lost her mum and two sisters. Coyote hasn't been home in all that time,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735267664Author Sean DixonFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994280909Author Yoko MatsuokaFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Euclid PressPublisher Euclid PressWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm * 2mm

Maybe the Moon tells the story of Eric, a little boy who loves his life in his forest home with his animal friends for company. When he moves to the city, he sets about searching for happiness in a strange new environment.Eric's journey shows him that...

Readers who love Leslie Connor and Ann M. Martin will adore this story of a citywide scavenger hunt and a girl who learns that family--and weirdness--is relative. Summer Coding Camp Incoming 7th graders only Eight-week session begins June 28 This is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061349744Author Vera B WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Greenwillow BooksPublisher Greenwillow BooksWeight(grams) 363g

How do you survive the worst thing that can ever happen?When thirteen-year-old Katie McCabe's dad gets sick and is hospitalized, she's sent to live with her uncle in a strange town. But within days of arriving, her dad unexpectedly dies.Struggling with...

A heartfelt contemporary middle grade novel about a girl who must try to save her aunt's failing pie shop, perfect for fans of The Thing About Jellyfish, Fish in a Tree-and The Great British Baking Show.When Cady Bennett is sent to live with the aunt she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544223882Author Karen EnglishFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062803467Author Margaret DillowayFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 446gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643753102Author Nicole MellebyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Algonquin Young ReadersPublisher Algonquin Young Readers

Junior Library Guild Selection * Kids' Indie Next List Pick From Leslie Connor, award-winning author of Waiting for Normal and Crunch, comes a soaring and heartfelt story about love, forgiveness, and how innocence makes us all rise up. All Rise for the...

In this magical follow-up picture book to Ashley Franklin's and Ebony Glenn's celebrated fairy tale twist, Not Quite Snow White, princess Tameika becomes a big sister . . . to twins! Tameika can't seem to do anything right for her new twin siblings and...

Persephone begins writing her own personal SECRET diary. She is horrified when she has to audition for the school musical and takes comfort in writing down her most SECRET thoughts. The Heartfield Heights Musical Extravaganza soon launches into full...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781460275504Author Sandra WerleFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399554094Author Kate BanksFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Schwartz & WadePublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 287mm * 211mm...

This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)Boots in the Mud is about the muddiest...

Sunny Beringer hates her first name-her real first name-Sunflower. And she hates that her mom has suddenly left behind her dad and uprooted their family miles away from New Jersey to North Carolina just so she can pursue some fancy degree. Sunny has to...

A heartfelt and funny story about a shy eleven-year-old who learns to manage her anxiety through improv classes-and discovers her activist voice. From Margaret Dilloway, author of Summer of a Thousand Pies, and perfect for fans of Sharon Draper, Lynda...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399250767Author Patricia PolaccoFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Philomel Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 482g