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Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo comes a story of discovering who you are--and deciding who you want to be. When Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana isn't overly worried. After all, Granny has many middle-of-the-night ideas. But this time, things are different. This time, Granny intends for them never to...
2) Fleabag
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A stray dog and a lonely boy become fast friends at a neighborhood park, but everything changes when the boy's family decides to move away.
4) The new girl
Author
Series
Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Guided by her rules, nine-year-old Allie works to get past being just the new girl at school, eagerly awaits the arrival of her kitten, and faces turmoil when her grandmother visits while the family is still settlling into their new home.
Author
Series
Mallory McDonald books volume 1
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After moving to a new town, eight-year-old Mallory keeps throwing stones in the "Wishing Pond" but things will not go back to the way they were before, and she remains torn between old and new best friends.
7) Rosa's room
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rosa searches for things that will fill her room in her new home, but it feels empty until she discovers exactly what is missing.
9) New kid
Author
Series
New kids novels volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"A troubled kid finds his bearings in a new school after a baseball coach offers him a spot on the team"--
11) Lenny and Lucy
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A picture book about moving to a new house and making new friends"--
12) The collector
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Forced to move into her grandma's country home with her mom and sister, Josie makes friends with a local popular girl who eventually leads her to a house in the woods that her grandmother warned her about.
13) Annie Bananie
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sad because her best friend, Annie Bananie, is moving away, a little girl remembers all the fun they had together.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After moving to a new town for her father's job, Clara learns that kids go missing from Pender every October and that a monster named the Mumbler may be responsible.
15) Spaceheadz: [1]
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
On his first day at Brooklyn's P.S. 858, fifth-grader Michael K. is teamed with two very strange students, and while he gradually comes to believe they are aliens who need his help, he has trouble convincing anyone else of the truth.
16) Double happiness
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Told in verse, a Chinese American girl and her little brother protest the idea of moving, until their grandmother teaches them a special trick to make the change easier.
17) Deviant
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Danny Lopez reviews the path that led him from Las Vegas, Nevada, to an experimental school near Colorado Springs and then to his imminent death at the hands of a cat-killer ready for bigger prey.
18) Going north
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young African American girl and her family leave their home in Alabama and head for Lincoln, Nebraska, where they hope to escape segregation and find a better life.
19) The fixer
Author
Series
The fixer (Jennifer Lynn Barnes) volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When her grandfather develops dementia, sixteen-year-old Tess, who has been keeping his Montana ranch going, is whisked away to Washington, D.C., by a sister she barely knows and thrown into a world of politics, power, wealth, love triangles, and family secrets.
20) Gibberish
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2025 NYRA Recommendations - Picture Books
AANHPI Heritage Month for Kids
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
One World, Many Stories PreK - 2nd
AANHPI Heritage Month for Kids
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
One World, Many Stories PreK - 2nd
Description
When Dat starts school in a country where he does not speak the language, everything around him sound like gibberish until a new friend helps him make sense of his new world.
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