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Absent Parents Books

Gone, distracted or unreliable, and children left to manage. Books about growing up faster than anyone should have to.

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3 books in the catalog

Cover of Road to Jericho

Road to Jericho

Robert Hornbeck

Literary Fiction
Cover of Lost in the Reflecting Pool

Lost in the Reflecting Pool

Diane C Pomerantz, PHD

Women's Fiction
Cover of Breyik the Apprentice

Breyik the Apprentice

T.A. Senzaki

Adventure

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