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Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1927 Vermont, eleven-year-old Donut, recently orphaned after the death of her beloved pops, stands to lose everything when she learns her Aunt Agnes plans to move her to Boston, but little does her aunt know that Donut has no intentions of leaving her friends or her home.
Author
Series
Binny Cornwallis volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Binny struggles to cope with her father's death and the loss of her beloved dog while she adjusts to a new home that might be haunted by her horrible Aunt Violet.
4) Fourmile
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious stranger arrives at a boy's rundown Alabama farm home, just as a dangerous situation is unfolding for the twelve-year-old and his widowed mother"--
Author
Series
Eleanor Kane books volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When nine-year-old Eleanor's beloved babysitter Bibi moves away to care for her ailing father, Eleanor must spend the summer adjusting to a new babysitter while mourning the loss of her old one.
6) I'm Ok
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
“So funny and heartfelt.”Gene Luen Yang, author of American Born Chinese. “I love the profound honesty of Im Ok.” Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park. Ok Lee is determined to find the perfect get-rich-quick scheme in this funny, uplifting novel for fans of Counting by 7s and Crenshaw. Ok Lee knows its his responsibility to help pay the bills. With his father gone and his mother working three jobs and still barely making ends meet, theres really...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Friendship and magical realism sparkle on the page in this heartwarming, delightfully eccentric illustrated middle-grade gem from an extraordinary new literary voice. Perfect for fans of A Snicker of Magic and The Penderwicks. Alberto lives alone in the town of Allora, where fish fly out of the sea and the houses shine like jewels. He is a coffin maker and widower, spending his quiet days creating the final resting places of Allora's people. Then...
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Cass's attitude changes after her mother, whom she idolizes, leaves her behind, and her father who previously seemed boring and practical, takes her on a summer road trip in which he shows her the creative, magical side of himself.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In the wake of his father's sudden death, twelve-year-old Finn feels he is becoming invisible as his hair and skin become whiter by the day, and so he writes and illustrates a book to try to understand what is happening and to hold on to himself and his father.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The world, itself, seems to bring together Henry, whose best friend died near their home in the mountains of Vermont, and Zavion, who lost his home in Hurricane Katrina, so that the boys can help each other heal.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Patricia MacLachlan, beloved author of the Newbery Medal-winning Sarah, Plain and Tall, has crafted another lyrical and touching novel for young readers about finding hope after the loss of a loved one. Declan OBrien always had a gentle word to share, odd phrases he liked to repeat, and songs to sing while he played basketball. His favorite song was "Dona Nobis Pacem," “Grant Us Peace.” His family loved him deeply and always knew they were loved...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
For two years, twelve-year-old Hazel has coped with her Mum's accidental death by overprotecting her sister and Mama, but when Mama reconnects with her first love, roles begin to shift.
14) Thanks to Nicki
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After a busy summer training Sprocket, the service dog she has been raising, Nicki's school year gets off to a rough start as she works on reconciling her two best friends, accepting that Sprocket will soon leave for placement with someone who needs him, and awaiting the birth of the twins her mother is expecting. Includes essay on service dogs.
15) Rebel McKenzie
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When feisty twelve-year-old Rebel McKenzie, an aspiring paleontologist, goes to spend the summer taking care of her older sister's seven-year-old son at the mobile home park in Frog Level, Virginia, she never expects to enter a beauty pageant or meet a hand model.
16) The line tender
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Following a tragedy that further alters the course of her life, twelve-year-old Lucy Everhart decides to continue the shark research her marine biologist mother left unfinished when she died years earlier"--
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A foster child named Angel and twelve-year-old Stella, who are living with Stella's great-aunt Louise at the Linger Longer Cottage Colony on Cape Cod, secretly assume responsibility for the vacation rentals when Louise unexpectedly dies and the girls are afraid of being returned to the foster care system.
18) The poet's dog
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A dog with unusual communication talents loses his poet owner before rescuing two children trapped in a snowstorm and leading them to the poet's cabin, where the children explore the memories that the poet has left behind.
19) Love, Amalia
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Amalia learns many important life-lessons while spending Friday afternoons with her beloved grandmother, and the teaching goes on even after Abuelita's sudden death as Amalia finds a way to connect with relatives and a friend who has moved away.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Sussy and Guy are best friends, fourth-graders who share their silliest thoughts and deepest hopes. One afternoon, the two of them decide they must have something of their very own to love. After a trip to the pet store, they bring home a spotted lizard, the one with the ancient face and starfish toes, and they name her Matylda (with a y so it’s all her own). With Guy leading the way, they feed her and give her an origin story fit for a warrior...
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