Arcadia Public Library

"Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of this novel, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her husband, Sam suddenly dies. And then more jolt: her big-hearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves--lines from her...

"Everyone else knows the truth about you, now you can know it, too. That's the slogan. The product: a junky contraption that tattoos personalized revelations on its users' forearms. It's an old con, playing on the fear that we are obvious to everybody except ourselves. This particular one's been circulating New York since the 1960s. The ad works. And, oddly enough, so might the device ... A small stream of city dwellers buy into this cult of the epiphany...

"Members of the Bear family try to solve their problems without playing the blame game of arguing over who is responsible for every disaster."--Title page verso.

"Responsibility is important for children to learn and understand at an early age. This title will introduce readers to what being responsible is through everyday and relatable examples that they are sure to experience."--

Being responsible is very important. But what does that mean? Readers will learn through examples in a fun question and answer format that doing the things you're supposed to do, even if it's not always what you want to do, is how you show responsibility.

Seven-year-old Louise, who performs in a trapeze act with her mother and father, finally gets an important job at the circus, but when things go wrong she wonders if she is really ready for new responsibilities.

"Mallory takes on a babysitting job, only to discover that it is more work than she expected and that she will have to learn to balance her commitments"--

When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it or...

Clark the Shark is excited to adopt Lulu the dogfish, but he soon learns that there is more to owning a pet than teaching her tricks and feeding her treats.