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Author
Series
Misfits (James Howe) volume 4
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While his friends Bobby, Joe, and Addie are spending the summer on exciting adventures, thirteen-year-old Skeezie Tookis must get a job and help around the house, and things only get worse when his long-lost father appears.
Author
Publisher
Disney/Jump at the Sun Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In a rhythmically-written conversation between parent and child, Mama lists her son's many good traits--from physical attributes to behavior--and though he dismisses each quality as just a little thing, Mama explains that there is nothing little about love.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Against the wishes of his mortician mother, Hadorah, twelve-year-old Walter and classmate Cordelia take a hearse on a road trip to meet legendary inventor Flasterborn, who once mentored Walter's long-dead father.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When his mother dies three weeks before his high school graduation, Danny goes to Tokyo, where his mother had been going for cancer treatments, to learn about the city his mother loved and, with the help of his friends, come to terms with her death.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Teen, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers, a division of Penguin Random House of Canada Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Dreaming of being the world's first Pakistani to be drafted into the NBA, fifteen-year-old Fawad Chaudhry must convince his mother to let him try out for the basketball team while dealing with the neighborhood bully.
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Dylan hears someone playing their violin in the subway he wants to stop and listen, but his mother and other commuters ignore the violinist completely. It also includes a brief biography of Joshua Bell.
89) Yugen
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories, Triangle Square Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple text reveal a young boy's longing and remembrance of his mother.
90) DJ rising
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Marley Diego-Dylan's career as "DJ Ice" is skyrocketing, but his mother's heroin addiction keeps dragging him back to earth.
91) Come home, Angus
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Little Angus wakes up angry, and decides to run away from home when his mother scolds him for being rude--but he is very soon lost, hungry, and more than a little frightened.
92) Nobel genes
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A boy whose manic-depressive mother has always told him that his father won a Nobel Prize, spends his time taking care of her and searching for clues to the identity of the Nobel Prize-winning sperm donor, eventually finding a truth he must learn to accept.
93) All this time
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After a traumatic accident, Kyle feels lost until he meets Marley, who seems like the girl of his dreams, but as they grow closer he fears he is headed for another crash.
94) Patchwork prince
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
With fabric scrap treasures, a mother makes her son clothes fit for royalty.
95) Wait
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As a boy and his mother move quickly through the city, the boy sees a dog, a butterfly and a hungry duck while his mother rushes them toward the departing train, but eventually, the little boy teaches his mother to slow down and enjoy the sites around them.
97) Faraway things
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lucian enjoys searching the beach below his home for treasure, but after becoming attached to a mysterious cutlass he meets its owner, who offers something greater for its return.
98) Hellhole
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Max Kilgore has accidentally unleashed a devil--and now the big, evil oaf is living in his basement. If Max doesn't meet the devil's demands (which include providing unlimited junk food and a hot tub), everyone and everything he holds dear could go up in smoke"--
99) A bird will soar
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
After a tornado, Axel, who loves birds, finds an injured eaglet, and helps to rescue it--and also helps to resolve the problems in his broken family, and draw his father back home.
100) North to Benjamin
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Edgar and his mother move to Dawson, a town in Yukon, Canada, for a new start, but when Edgar fears his mother's destructive behavior will force them to leave, he turns to a dog named Benjamin to help him stop the worst from happening.
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