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Author
Series
Fudge books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Peter finds his demanding two-and-a-half-year-old brother an ever increasing problem.
Author
Series
Ramona Quimby volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Beezus Quimby wants to be a good older sister, but little Ramona makes it so hard. She has to be the most embarrassing sister ever. Although Ramona isn't trying to get into trouble, her unmatchable imagination usually carries her there.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old April is delighted when President and Mrs. Hoover build a school near her Madison County, Virginia, home but her family's poverty, grief over the accidental death of her brother, and other problems may mean that April can never learn to read from the wonderful teacher, Miss Vest.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1969, the town of Red Clover, South Carolina, led by an enthusiastic new Latin teacher, supports thirteen-year-old Karlene as she wins her school spelling bee and strives to qualify for the National Bee, despite family problems and a growing desire for romance.
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 2
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Raised by his grandparents, first in Mississippi then in Wisconsin, ten-year-old Lymon moves to Chicago in 1945 to live with the mother he never knew, while yearning for his father.
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
A tale told in dual narratives during the 1918 flu epidemic in New York and in 1955 San Jose explores the nature of family secrets and the complex bonds between mothers and daughters, as a 14-year-old girl becomes increasingly concerned about her writer mother's advancing depression.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1957, problems at the mine threaten to ruin Christmas for fifth-grader Don, his family, and the rest of their Oklahoma coal town, but Don's bloodhound, Frank, is determined to do whatever it takes to make the holiday special for Don and his six-year-old sister, Susan. Alternate chapters are told from the human and canine points of view.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sandpiper
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
During the month of June, Petal, one of the eight Huit octuplets, gets her power, which she uses to great advantage when Crazy Aunt Serena tries to kidnap Rebecca and throw her off the Eiffel Tower while the rest of the family attends a wedding.
9) Chicken boy
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Since the death of his mother, Tobin's family life and school life have been in disarray, but after he starts raising chickens with his seventh-grade classmate, Henry, everything starts to fall into place.
Author
Series
Insiders (Minter) volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Wealthy New York City high school student Jonathan and his upper-class friends spend their time dating, partying, and dealing with each other's family problems.
11) Compromised
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
With her con-man father in prison, fifteen-year-old Maya sets out from Reno, Nevada, for Boise, Idaho, hoping to stay out of foster care by finding an aunt she never knew existed, but a fellow runaway complicates all of her scientifically-devised plans.
Author
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Lyndie and her parents must move to her grandparents' home in small-town Tennessee in 1985, having to keep all family problems private only adds to their problems.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Siena's visions of the past intensify when her family moves to the Maine coast hoping her little brother will begin speaking, and she connects with residents of the house from many years earlier who faced a similar problem.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In 1966, when his father's attempted suicide causes the ostracism of the family in their small Montana community, fourteen-year-old Nate copes with his sadness and anger by trying to win the school science fair.
17) Over the river
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1947, after the war, Willa Mae's father returns to the Illinois town where she has lived with her maternal grandparents for the last five of her eleven years, and Willa Mae finds herself struggling to understand old family tensions and secrets.
18) Hot hand
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 1
Publisher
Walden Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In the wake of his parents' separation, ten-year-old Billy seems to have continual conflicts with his father, who is also his basketball coach, but his quiet, younger brother Ben, a piano prodigy, is having even more trouble adjusting, and only Billy seems to notice.
19) Happy haunting!
Author
Series
Ghostville Elementary volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mr. Morton's third graders are all set to turn the school basement into a haunted house for their family and friends. The problem is ... the basement is already haunted!
20) I am here now
Author
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the Bronx in the early 1960s, fourteen-year-old Maisie and her longtime friend Richie start high school, as each struggles with an abusive parent.
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