For families expecting a new baby, a book about expectations and acceptance, and about loving little sisters and little brothers.

"We [heart] cats! Karen's best friend Hannie just got a new kitten. Now all her friends have cats. And Karen has a great idea. She can start a club like her big sister Kristy. It will be a Kittycat Club! Will will the club do? Karen can't baby-sit like Kristy . . . but she can cat-sit! Will anyone want Karen as a cat-sitter? They'd better - running a club is hard work!" --back cover.

Upon learning that her family is expecting a new baby, a little princess insists that a boy would be unacceptable--she wants a sister.

Everything changes in Little Arvin's world when he realizes his mother is about to have a baby. Little Arvin cannot understand why his mother wants to have another baby when he's her baby. So, Little Arvin begins planning and imagining humorous things to do with the new baby that is until he meets her, names her and realizes that she looks at him as though he's the most special person in the room. Little Arvin's heart grows with love for his baby...

"It's the spring of 1917 and change is in the air. American women have done something remarkable: they've banded together to create military-style training camps for women who want to serve. These so-called National Service Schools prove irresistible to the Kopp sisters, who leave their farm in New Jersey to join up. When an accident befalls the matron, Constance reluctantly agrees to oversee the camp--much to the alarm of the Kopps' tent-mate, the...

Shares humorous poems about such subjects as disco baths, sneaky sisters, nose hairs, and wanting a dog.

"A searching, heartfelt exploration about what it means to process grief, by a bestselling author and journalist whose experience with two devastating losses inspired her to bring comfort and understanding to others. Since losing her mother to cancer in 2018 and her sister to alcoholism less than three years later, author and journalist Dina Gachman has dedicated herself to understanding what it means to grieve, healing after loss, and the ways we...

"Harlow Smith thought she had finally achieved the quiet life she wanted-a little bookstore on Cape Cod, an apartment in her grandpa's house, a more or less happily single life-when the biggest secret from her past walked into town and changed everything. A kid walks into your bookstore and says to you, Guess what? I'm your son. The one you put up for adoption seventeen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise! His name is Matthew...

A young boy wants to write a story, just like his big sister. But there's a problem, he tells her. Though he knows his letters, he doesn't know many words. His sister patiently explains, "Every story starts with a single word and every word starts with a single letter. Why don't you start there, with a letter?" So the boy tries. He writes a letter. An easy letter. The letter I. And from that one skinny letter, the story grows, and the little boy discovers...

"Gary Janetti is bothered. By a lot of things. And thank God he's here to tell us. He's bothered that he has to play football in high school gym when he'd rather be in the guidance counselor's office, faking sick and dishing about the latest dramas on his beloved soap operas. He's annoyed when, as a kid growing up in Queens, New York, there's a serial killer loose in his neighborhood, but Carole Burnett is on tv and he really doesn't want to miss...