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2) Hope
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Two lions celebrate their grandchild and express all the ways this new life has expanded their world, and the hope they hold for his future"--
3) El principio
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
Despite the cruel and devastating effects of war, this poetic story tells of a united family and provides a message of hope in the face of the horrors of war.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After the death of her parents, Lotties loses her colorful magic and is sent to the gray wasteland to live with her uncle, but the discovery of a locked-up garden, a wise cardinal, and a hidden boy gives Lottie a second chance at bringing color back into her life.
Author
Series
Goddess girls volume 29
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Elpis, a hope-spreading bubble, is given the chance to become the Spirit of Hope at Mount Olympus Academy if she can prove herself as a human girl among the students, but quickly realizes that being a human girl comes with its own challenges.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
For anyone going through a difficult passage, this uplifting, beautifully illustrated picture book is about finding optimism in the darkest of places. Rain before rainbows, clouds before sun, night before daybreak-a new day's begun. In this heartfelt story about courage, change, and moving on, a girl and her companion fox travel together away from a sorrowful past, through challenging and stormy times, toward color and light and life. Along the way...
11) Hope is a hop
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When Eva's hopes for a cheerful flower garden are dashed by a rascally-and hungry! -rabbit, she sinks into despair. But it's from this new vantage point that she discovers something surprising and wonderful about her four-legged-nemesis that reminds Eva of her own growing family and inspires her to try again."--
Ages 3-7.
12) The elephant
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Olive's dad drags himself to work in the morning, the elephant goes with him. When he comes home again, so does the elephant. It's always there, heavy and silent, casting a shadow of sadness over him. Olive knows it has been like this since her mother passed away when she was a year old, and she can't stand to see her father burdened anymore. With help from her grandfather and her best friend Arthur, she hatches a plan to rid her family of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Description
Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.
15) Guttersnipe
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In Canada early in the twentieth century, Ben, the youngest in a family of Jewish immigrants struggling to make ends meet, decides to help out but when a hat maker gives him a chance, disaster strikes and Ben nearly loses hope.
16) Bandada
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
A beautiful metaphor about the history of mankind. Birds represent the ambitions of the people. Good intentions become perverted; but a gleam of hope shines on the horizon.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"What happens when you can't find your way, and you become down in the dumps...is all hope ever really lost? Not for one special nutcracker! As you turn the pages, prepare to enjoy our golfing nutcracker's adventure and his very special journey. You will delight in this heart-warming story of the ups and downs in the life of a Christmas nutcracker decoration and look forward to reading "The tale of the nutcracker" with the children in your life each...
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