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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
2) Wilderness
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As Irish teenager Gráinne anxiously prepares for a reunion with her mother, who abandoned the family years before, Gráinne's half-brothers and their mother take a dogsledding vacation in Finland.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In rhyming text, a young child reflects on the many reasons they love their mom. There are so many things we love about our mom from the things we do together, to her unique characteristics, and the ways she understands us. All of these special things show us just how much we are loved by our mom!
6) Mom pie
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Because their mother seems too busy preparing for company, Christopher and Robbie cook up the idea of a Mom pie to serve as her surrogate.
7) My mom
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A child describes the many wonderful things about "my mom," who can make anything grow, roar like a lion, and be as comfy as an armchair.
13) My working Mom
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Although she sometimes resents her mother's work as a witch, a young girl decides to keep her mother just the way she is.
15) I love Mommy
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A mother frog and her child spend time together singing, playing, reading, and enjoying each other's company.
16) The silent boy
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.
17) Death mountain
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While traveling to visit the mother she has not heard from in almost a year, Erin and another teenage girl become lost in the rugged Sierra Nevada mountains and must struggle for six days to survive.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Allowing herself to be hynotized, fifteen-year-old Kira reveals memories of another time and place that may eventually cost her and her mother their lives.
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