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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to...
2) Big Cat
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A hefty feline puts up with all kinds of indignities from the children in her loving but rambunctious family.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Samantha, the seventeen-year-old daugher of a wealthy, perfectionistic, Republican state senator, falls in love with the boy next door, whose family is large, boisterous, and just making ends meet, she discovers a different way to live, but when her mother is involved in a hit-and-run accident Sam must make some difficult choices.
5) Felix Yz
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Felix Yz chronicles the final month before an experimental procedure meant to separate him from the fourth-dimensional creature, Zyx, with whom he was accidentally fused as a young child.
6) Poor Louie
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Loving life with his human parents, Louie becomes alarmed when his routine changes and double sets of new furniture and clothing begin showing up in his home as his mom's tummy gets bafflingly larger.
Author
Series
Sophie books (Rosemary Wells) volume 5
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Sophie's parents tell her to say 'Hello,' 'Thank-you,' and 'Goodbye,' but the words stick like glue in Sophie's mouth and won't come out"--
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Maria and her family visit an apple orchard and pick apples. Then it's time to turn the apples into applesauce! Every year they use the special pot that has been in the family for generations to make applesauce. First they wash the apples. Then Grandma cuts them into quarters. Follow each step in the process as everyone helps to make delicious applesauce!
Author
Series
Betty Bunny books volume 3
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a young rabbit breaks a table lamp and blames the Tooth Fairy, her family explains the importance of honesty.
12) We are family
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
Rhyming text and illustrations of families explore how all families are different, but also the same.
14) Dino duckling
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this fun and endearing celebration of differences, a dinosaur finds a home with a family of ducks--a fresh twist on the beloved "The Ugly Duckling" tale.Even as an egg, Dino Duckling is different from all the other baby ducks. And when he's born, no one seems to notice that he's actually a dinosaur! Mama Duck knows that there is plenty of room for difference in a loving family, but there's one big problem: How will Dino Duckling fly south for the...
15) Two is enough
Author
Publisher
Running Press Kids
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Celebrates the many ways that two can be the perfect number for a family with the love, support, and comfort that every child needs.
16) Noisy Nora
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's tough being the middle mouse. No one's paying any attention to Nora, so she decides to do something her family can't ignore: make noise. Nora slams windows, bangs doors, and upsets furniture, to no avail. It's not until she crashes out the door--and the house goes strangely silent--that her family realizes: a noisy Nora is much better than no Nora at all."A wonderful story."
17) The doughnut fix
Author
Series
Doughnut fix volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Superfudge meets The Lemonade War in this funny, heartwarming series debut about change, adventure, family, and of course, doughnuts. Tristan isn't Gifted or Talented like his sister Jeanine, and he's always been okay with that because he can make a perfect chocolate chip cookie and he lives in the greatest city in the world. But his life takes a turn for the worse when his parents decide to move to middle-of-nowhere Petersvillea town with one street...
Author
Series
Violet Mackerel books volume 4
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Violet finds a special way to cope with moving to a new home after Mama marries Vincent.
20) King Alice
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl wakes her father by informing him that she is Queen Alice, then draws him and other family members into her imaginative activities, from writing a book to a sleepover with fairies.
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