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Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1978]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Finding herself in the latest and most intolerable of a string of foster homes, an eleven-year-old who prides herself on her cleverness and unmanageability tries gamely to provoke the adults around her.
2) Jess
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Series
Anne of Green Gables volume 7
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1919-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The grown-up Anne of Green Gables, her husband, and their six children live in a special hideaway known as Rainbow Valley.
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Friendship with an outcast classmate and memories of her mother's desertion interfere with the relationship thirteen-year-old Ronnie tries to establish with her new foster mother.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The Parent Trap meets The Holiday in this heartwarming and funny story of two girls, one American and one British, who become friends and confidantes when their families swap houses, from the acclaimed author of Glitter Gets Everywhere. Allie is British and dreams of being a spy. Sage is an only child from sunny California. They meet when their families swap houses for the summer. Though they’re polar opposites, Allie and Sage quickly realize...
Author
Series
Red gloves series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A New York Times bestselling author weaves a heartwarming tale of redemptive grace and the spirit of Christmas.
Every year Sarah Lindeman celebrates Christmas the same way, placing one special ornament on her tiny tree on each of the twelve days of Christmas. It is her time to remember where she came from, who she is today, and how long ago a song gave her another chance at love.. But this year the ritual is different. This year...7) Touch blue
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the school's population.
Author
Series
Unforgettable Logan Foster volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Logan, an undersized twelve-year-old orphan with a photographic memory and no filter, discovers that his foster parents are superheroes in grave danger and only Logan's highly logical mind can save them.
9) Gossamer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.
10) Cress Watercress
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It's a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what's left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse super, a rowdy family of squirrels, and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone's business. Can a dead tree full of annoying...
Author
Series
Bran Hambric novels volume 1
Publisher
Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Very strange occurrences have long surrounded fourteen-year-old Bran, who learns of his link to a curse created by his murdered mother and strives to make things right, hindered by the ban on magic in the city of Dunce and pursued by his mother's former masters.
13) Fast break
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.
14) Growing pangs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Katie knows there’s stuff that makes her different. She’s homeschooled, she has freckles, and her teeth are really crooked. But none of these things matter to Kacey. They’re best friends forever—just like their necklaces say. But when they go to summer camp, Kacey starts acting weird. What happened to the “forever”? And when Katie gets home, she can’t stop worrying. About getting braces. About 6th grade. About friends. She knows tapping...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"After 12-year-old Grace's mother's sudden death, Grace is forced to live with a grandmother she's never met. Then she discovers clues in a mysterious treasure hunt--one that will help her find her true home"--
17) Give and take
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Maggie's parents become temporary foster parents for a new baby, her tendency to hoard spirals out of control.
18) Home run kings
Author
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Surveys the history of the home run in baseball, concentrating on famous home run hitters and the ongoing race to beat the previous home run record.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Homeschooled by her mechanic-environmentalist father, eleven-year-old Rachel "Ratchet" Vance records her efforts to make friends, save a park, remember her mother, and find her own definition of "normal."
20) What I call life
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Placed in a group foster home, eleven-year-old Cal Lavender learns how to cope with life from the four other girls who live there and from their storytelling guardian, the Knitting Lady.
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