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"Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who's always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male. But Charlie's been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with...
Author
Series
Angel O'Leary books volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Angel finds plenty to worry about when she learns that her mother's new boyfriend is a clown.
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 15
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The summer after ninth grade, Alice and her friends spend three weeks working as assistant counselors at a camp for disadvantaged children and cope with all kinds of changes.
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Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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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.
5) Jake
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Jake's widowed mother breaks her leg just before Christmas while her sister and best friend are both away, a grandfather Jake barely remembers must come to Baltimore, Maryland, to help a neighbor take care of him.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1930s Liverpool, England, Bronwen and Dylan live with their widowed mother, who works long hours doing other people's washing, and even though she sometimes must leave the children alone in the house, she cautions them not to speak to the O'Rileys next door, who go to a different church.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Josie, who lives with her mother and grandmother and has cerebral palsy, befriends a boy who moves into one of the rich houses behind her old farmhouse.
Author
Series
Joel Gustafson series volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Now almost fourteen, Joel becomes a local hero to his small Swedish town when he saves an old man from freezing to death in the woods.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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A story about the fight for equal rights in America's favorite arena: the baseball field! Every boy in the neighborhood knows Katy Gordon is their best pitcher, even though she's a girl. But when she tries out for Little League, it's a whole different story. Girls are not eligible, period. It is a boy's game and always has been. It's not fair, and Katy's going to fight back. Inspired by what she's learning about civil rights in school, she sets out...
10) Finding Langston
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In a debut historical novel about the Great Migration a boy discovers Chicago's postwar South Side and the poetry of Langston Hughes. When 11-year-old Langston's mother dies in 1946, he and his father leave rural Alabama for Chicago's brown belt as a part of what came to be known as the Great Migration. It's lonely in the small apartment with just the two of them, and at school Langston is bullied. But his new home has one fantastic thing. Unlike...
11) Visible empire
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From a writer who "deserves the attention of anyone in search of today's best fiction"* comes an epic novel--based on true events--of wealth, race, grief, and love, charting one sweltering summer in Atlanta that left no one unchanged (*Washington Post)... It's a humid summer day when the phones begin to ring: disaster has struck. Air France Flight 007, which had been chartered to ferry home more than one hundred of Atlanta's cultural leaders following...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-year-old Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter, witnesses a stunning bank robbery, and is suddenly catapulted onto a train that takes him to a different time and place.
13) Being Clem
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 3
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When nine-year-old Clem's father dies in the Port Chicago Disaster he is forced to navigate his family's losses and strunggles in 1940's Chicago.
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