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Look, Lenore.
ALVIN HO : ALLERGIC TO BABIES, BURGLARS, AND OTHER BUMPS IN THE NIGHT New York : Swartz & Wade Books, 2013 IL 3-6, RL 4.1 ISBN 0375970339 |
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Alvin Ho is back and is as quirky as
ever. He thinks his mother is just putting on
weight from eating too much. But it turns out
that she is having a baby. Alvie is not too
sure this is a good thing. With babies come so
much responsibility. And what if the baby is a
girl?? Now Alvin is really worried. In
fact, Alvin starts imagining he is having the baby
and starts to have all sorts of feelings.
Adding to his worries is the news that a burglar has
been spotted in the neighborhood. But Alvin
has come fact to face with many scary things in the
past like school, camping, birthday parties and even
dead bodies. Can Alvin overcome his fears this
time? |
| SUBJECTS: Fear -- Fiction. Pregnancy -- Fiction. Interpersonal relations -- Fiction. Schools -- Fiction. Chinese Americans -- Fiction. Concord (Mass.) -- Fiction. |
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