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c2004., Juvenile, Scholastic Call No: REA FIC HOL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Doll hospital Volume: #6Summary Note: It's holiday break from school, and Lila and Rose want to go to the winter carnival in town. But Far Nana has other plans - a trip to a Shaker village. The sisters are not pleased. But they soon learn that they're not the only ones who didn't want to go to the village... The year was 1832, and Daisy wall all alone in the world. She was taken to live with the Shakers, who often cared for orpnans. Daisy brought along her beloved doll, Charlotte. The Shakers were kind, but life at the village was hard. Would Daisy learn to fit in, or would she find a way to leave?
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By Ng, Celeste2017., Penguin Press Call No: Young Adult FIC NG Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. When old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town--and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs. Little Fires Everywhere explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, and the ferocious pull of motherhood - and the danger of believing that following the rules can avert disaster.
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By Ng, Celeste2019., Penguin Books Call No: Realistic FIC Ng, Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In a perfect community based on rules, order, and conformity, a single mother named Mia and her daughter Pearl rent a house from the Richardsons. As the Richardson children become close to the mother-daughter pair, Elena Richardson begins to suspect the motives of this woman who goes against the grain, and who possesses a dark secret. And after family friends of the Richardsons enter into a fierce custody dispute over an adopted Chinese American child, pitting Mia and Elena against each other, Elena decides to investigate Mia's secrets with devastating effects.
