(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Susan Richards Shreve
1) Blister
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When a family tragedy occurs, ten-year-old Alyssa "Blister" Reed changes schools, moves to an apartment with her depressed mother while her father gets his own place, and tries to believe her grandmother, who tells her she is "elastic" and can handle it all.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In 1950s Ohio, ninth-grader Franny feels isolated and self-conscious at high school because of her deformed leg and feet, but her irrepressibly high-spirited mother is determined to find shoes for Franny to wear at the school dances.
3) Trout and me
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ben's troubles at school get progressively worse when he starts hanging around Trout, a new boy in his fifth grade class, who is also labeled as learning disabled.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
It is 1973 and Watergate is on everyone's lips. Lucy Painter is a children's book illustrator and a single mother of two. She leaves New York and the married father of her children to live in a tightly knit Washington neighborhood in the house where she grew up and where she discovered her father's suicide. Lucy hopes for a fresh start, but her life is full of secrets: her children know nothing of her father's death or the identity of their own father....