Carolyn Mackler
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Willa lives on the upper West Side of Manhattan with her divorced father and her younger brother and attends fifth grade with her best friend Ruby, and she likes things to be a certain way, because it makes life manageable even with her Sensory Processing Disorder; she certainly does not like surprises, and her father has just thrown her a big one: he has been dating Ruby's mother, and suddenly Willa's life seems to be spiraling out of her control--and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Virginia Shreves has a larger-than-average body and a plus-size inferiority complex, especially when she compares herself to her slim, brilliant, picture-perfect family. But that's before a shocking phone call—and a horrifying allegation—about her rugby-star brother changes everything. With irreverent humor and surprising gravity, Carolyn Mackler creates an endearingly blunt heroine who speaks to every teen who struggles with
...Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Two girls who share a birthday and palindromic names struggle with respective parental challenges and loneliness while gradually overcoming their differences to become close friends.