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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.
2) Pivot point
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"A girl with the power to search alternate futures lives out six weeks of two different lives in alternating chapters. Both futures hold the potential for love and loss, and ultimately she is forced to choose which fate she is willing to live thorugh"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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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.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Following his parents' divorce, seventeen-year-old Evan moves with his mother and sister into an old house where the spirit of a teenager who died there awakens and mistakes him for her long-departed lover.
Author
Series
American girls collection. Julie, 1974 volume 1
The American girls collection volume 1
American girls collection. Julie 1974 volume 1
The American girls collection volume 1
American girls collection. Julie 1974 volume 1
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In 1974, after Julie's parents divorce, she moves to a new San Francisco neighborhood where the school does not have a girls' basketball team, so she fights for the right to play on the boys' team.
12) Pop
Author
Publisher
Balzer & Bray
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.
13) 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.
14) Top of the order
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.
15) So much closer
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Brooke has a crush on Scott so big that when he heads for New York City, she moves into her estranged father's Greenwich Village apartment, but soon she begins to focus on knowing herself and finding her future path.
Author
Series
American girls collection. Julie, 1974 volume 3
American girls collection. Julie 1974 volume 3
The American girls collection volume Julie, 3
American girls collection. Julie 1974 volume 3
The American girls collection volume Julie, 3
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The first Christmas since Julie's parents' divorce is difficult for the whole family, but Julie finds comfort sharing the Chinese New Year traditions of her best friend, Ivy Ling, and thinking about new beginnings.
17) In real life
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old math prodigy Seth Gordon hopes to compete professionally playing Starfare, the world's most popular computer game, but when he gets the chance to move to Korea and train full-time, he may not be ready for the culture shock and leaving his possible girlfriend, Hannah.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Mia feels like a ghost watching her own life when her parents' arguments escalate into a separation, triggering counseling sessions, strange behavior in her brother and sister, and a new connection with her brother's best friend.
Author
Series
Lucy Rose books volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Lucy Rose records in her diary her special summer plans--to make a keychain for her mother, to help decorate the living room, to prevent her parents' divorce, to vanquish some squirrels, and to enjoy a ninth birthday adventure with her father.
20) 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,...
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