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1) Mixed up
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Twelve-year-olds Reef and Theo have a mutual problem: their memories are getting mixed up, and that means that Reef is losing his memory of his mother, recently dead of COVID, which terrifies him--but for Theo his new memories are helping him deal with his domineering father.
Reef and Theo don't know what's happening to them. They'll be going about their days and then suddenly they'll have these strange flashes of memory -- but the memories don't...
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"Tucked in bed at a new apartment, a boy and his mother trade favorite memories. Some are idyllic, like a picnic with Dad, but others are more surprising: a fall from a bike into soft piled hay, the smell of an old oil lamp when a rainstorm blew the power out. Now it's just the two of them, and the house where all those memories happened is far away. But maybe someday, this will be a favorite memory, too: happy and sad, an end and a beginning intertwined....
5) Clarion call
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Ravensong (Cayla Fay) volume 2
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Having failed to prevent her vengeful cousin from breaching the Veil, demi-god Neve attempts to prevent more havoc and destruction in the mortal world while she also grapples with old memories, a new family member's emergence, and the delicate balance between past, present, and an uncertain future.
8) We could fly
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"At a sparrow's urging, a young girl feels a mysterious trembling in her arms, a lightness in her feet, a longing to be free. Her mother tells her that her Granny Liza experienced the same, as did many of their people before her. Perhaps it's time, Mama says, to slip the bonds of earth and join the journey started long ago. To hold each other tight and rise. Drawing on lyrics from the song "We Could Fly" by Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell, which...
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Habia una vez ... Una nina llamada Petra Pena que no queria otra cosa que ser cuentista, como su abuelita. Pero el mundo de Petra esta llegando a su fin. La Tierra ha sido destruida por un cometa, y solounos pocos cientificos y sus hijos--entre ellos, Petra y su familia--han sido elegidos para viajar a un nuevo planeta. Cientos de anos despues, Petra despierta en el nuevo planeta y descubre que es la unica persona que recuerda a la Tierra. Un siniestro...
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"En Nena y Roberta, ¿d̤nde est̀? abuela y nieta recorren mundos fantasiosos en busca de la memoria de la abuela, que se ha fugado. Este relato nos presenta otra perspectiva posible e invita al lector a conversar, de manera l͠dica, sobre la p̌rdida de memoria."--
A girl and her grandmother travel through fantastical worlds in search of the grandmother's memory, which has run away.
11) Hum
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Eleven-year-old Allen and his grandmother are moving to a little town in rural New York, but the quiet countryside does not stop the recurring nightmare that plagues him--until an encounter with a llama recalls a language Allen did not know he could speak, and unveils the memory of his parents' fate.