Twelve-year-old Milo, a chess prodigy, has lost his passion for the game but is too afraid to tell his mom, his greatest supporter who’s always championed his talent. Instead, he intentionally throws a major tournament. Losing means he loses his chess camp scholarship for the summer. Milo’s mom then announces she and Milo will spend […]
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Explores the many routes prospective parents can take to bring children into their lives, including insemination, in-vitro fertilization, donors, surrogacy, and adoption. The book is organized into chapters covering baby-making basics, insemination, in vitro fertilization, beyond assisted reproduction, and donor-conceived perspectives. It combines real-life stories from diverse families with scientific diagrams, illustrations, and data to
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Donor-conceived Quinn loves her two mums and brother Olly but often feels like the odd one out since she’s the only one with red hair and green eyes and would rather quietly draw than participate in her family’s favorite outdoor activities like surfing. When her mums reveal that she and Olly have sixteen donor siblings,
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In this Newbery Honor Award Winner published in 2022, eleven-year-old Maizy Chen travels from Los Angeles with her single mother to spend the summer in Last Chance, Minnesota, to help care for her ailing grandfather and work at the Golden Palace, the family’s Chinese restaurant. Maizy, who hasn’t seen her grandparents since age eight and
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A sports novel that follows thirteen-year-old Nikki, a passionate basketball player who makes the cut for an elite-level club team and dreams of becoming a professional basketball star. However, the transition proves more challenging than Nikki expected—she’s suddenly surrounded by taller, faster, and stronger girls, loses her position as point guard, and struggles to find
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The Percy Jackson series follows a twelve-year-old boy who discovers he’s the son of Poseidon and gets swept into the world of Greek gods and monsters living in modern-day America. Attending Camp Half-Blood, a sanctuary for demigods, Percy befriends Annabeth Chase (daughter of Athena) and Grover Underwood (a satyr) and becomes entangled in a dangerous
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A Kids Book About Donor Conceived People is written by a donor conceived person herself. Published in 2024, this groundbreaking book invites young readers (ages 5+) to explore what it means to be donor conceived through conversations about identity, family, and origin stories. Rather than assuming a single narrative about conception, the book encourages readers
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When Tinker Bell crosses the border into the forbidden Winter Woods, her wings mysteriously sparkle. She discovers this happens because she has a sister, Periwinkle, who lives there—both fairies were born from the same baby’s laugh, making them biological siblings. However, an ancient law separates warm-season fairies from winter fairies because crossing the border damages
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