365 days to Alaska by Carr, Cathy 

BTSB Prebound(Amulet Books, 2021)

BTSB #: 192982 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.5 MG F&P: U

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Moving - Fiction Divorce - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Family life - Connecticut - Fiction Connecticut - Fiction

Summary: When eleven-year-old Rigel Harman's parents divorce, she and her sisters must move from the Alaskan wilderness to suburban Connecticut, and while she yearns to return in a year, she eventually realizes she must move forward.

Home for goddesses and dogs by Connor, Leslie 

Paperback(HarperCollins, 2022)

BTSB #: 235918 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4 MG Lexile: 570 HL

Genres: Family Life Animals

Subjects: Grief - Fiction Aunts - Fiction Lesbians - Fiction Dogs - Fiction Family life - Connecticut - Fiction Connecticut - Fiction

Summary: After the death of her mother, Lydia moves in with her aunts and learns to find a new family of inspiring women and loving dogs.

Home for goddesses and dogs by Connor, Leslie 

BTSB Prebound(HarperCollins, 2020)

BTSB #: 235923 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4 MG Lexile: 570 HL

Genres: Family Life Animals

Subjects: Grief - Fiction Aunts - Fiction Lesbians - Fiction Dogs - Fiction Family life - Connecticut - Fiction Connecticut - Fiction

Summary: After the death of her mother, Lydia moves in with her aunts and learns to find a new family of inspiring women and loving dogs.

One for the Murphys by Hunt, Lynda Mullaly 

Publisher Edition - Large Print Hardcover(Thorndike Press, 2022)

BTSB #: 471697 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 3.4 MG Lexile: 520 F&P: Z

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Foster home care - Fiction Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction Stepfathers - Fiction Family problems - Fiction Large print books Connecticut - Fiction

Summary: After heartbreaking betrayal, Carley lives with a foster family and struggles with opening herself up to their love. Large print hardcover format.

One for the Murphys by Hunt, Lynda Mullaly 

Paperback(Penguin, 2012)

BTSB #: 471734 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 3.4 MG RC: 3.1 6-8 Lexile: 520 F&P: Z

Genres:

Subjects: Foster home care - Fiction Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction Stepfathers - Fiction Family problems - Fiction Connecticut - Fiction

Summary: After heartbreaking betrayal, Carley lives with a foster family and struggles with opening herself up to their love.

Patron saint of butterflies by Galante, Cecilia 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2012)

BTSB #: P01724 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-13   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Cults - Fiction Communal living - Fiction Connecticut - Fiction

Summary: When her grandmother takes fourteen-year-old Agnes, her younger brother, and best friend Honey and escapes Mount Blessing, a Connecticut religious commune, Agnes clings to the faith she loves while Honey looks toward a future free of control, cruelty, and preferential treatment.

Secret language of sisters by Rice, Luanne 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2016)

BTSB #: P03258 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Sisters - Fiction Traffic accidents - Fiction Comas - Fiction Text messaging (Cell phone systems) - Fiction Guilt - Fiction Connecticut - Fiction

Summary: Mathilda (Tilly), fourteen, and Ruth Anne (Roo), sixteen, are sisters and best friends in Connecticut, but when Roo crashes her car while texting she is confined to a hospital bed with "locked-in syndrome," aware of her surroundings, but apparently comatose--and Tilly must find a way to communicate with her sister, while dealing with her own sense of guilt.

Una para los Murphys by Hunt, Lynda Mullaly 

PaperbackSPANISH(Vintage Espanol, 2022)

BTSB #: 472260 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   


Genres: Spanish Language Family Life

Subjects: Foster home care - Fiction Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction Stepfathers - Fiction Family problems - Fiction Spanish language - Reading materials Connecticut - Fiction

Summary: After heartbreaking betrayal, Carley lives with a foster family and struggles with opening herself up to their love. In Spanish.