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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Despite her parents' divorce, her father's coming out as gay, and his plans to marry his boyfriend, ten-year-old Bea is reassured by her parents' unconditional love, excited about getting a stepsister, and haunted by something she did last summer at her father's lake house.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In an effort to get his mother to stop writing about him in her books, fifth-grader Harvey and his best friend decide to try to make a romantic connection between her and their school principal.
6) Melonhead
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Tired of living with his uncaring, divorced parents, Sidney, a twelve-year-old boy with an unusually large head, takes a bus trip across the United States which becomes a journey of self-discovery.
Author
Series
4 for 4 series volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Jackson lives for baseball, but becomes distracted by the approach of middle school, his mother's latest boyfriend, and the presence of a girl--his good friend's sister--on his team.
8) You go first
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kellys You Go First is an engaging exploration of family, bullying, spelling, art, and the ever-complicated world of middle school friendships. Her perfectly pitched tween voice will resonate with fans of Kate DiCamillos Raymie Nightingale. Twelve-year-old Charlotte Lockard and eleven-year-old Ben Boxer are separated by more than a thousand miles. On the surface, their lives seem vastly differentCharlotte lives near Philadelphia,...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1967, unhappy with her newly-blended family, twelve-year-old Bea agrees to accompany Pidge, her grandmother, to Atchison, Kansas, where Pidge believes her long-lost sister, Amelia Earhart, will meet them. Includes historical notes, a brief biography, quotations from the Earharts, and resources for educators.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Izzy's life just seems to get more and more complicated: she is upset by her father's new marriage, and a new baby on the way; she is expected to look out for her ten-year-old cousin, Oliver, who has moved in with her family since his mother committed suicide, because his father is depressed and having trouble coping; and now Ben, the rebellious sixteen-year-old son of Izzy's mother's boyfriend, is also living with them--but when Oliver's...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Incorporated
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Middle schooler Liberty likes to make her own maps of the stars, in fact she is obsessed with them, especially since her family is falling apart; her parents are getting divorced, her nine-year-old sister will barely leave the house and carries a stuffed tiger at all times, her father is suffering from depression, but will not talk about it, and the brothers down the street, once friends, have turned into bullies--so when a tiny meteorite literally...
12) Eggs over Evie
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Evie feels unsettled and sad after her parents divorce, her father remarries and takes the family dog, and his new wife becomes pregnant, but a cooking class and helping the elderly lady next door with her cat give Evie a way to cope with the changes in her life. Includes recipes.
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