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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Seventh-grader Bea is the star short stop on her softball team, which is going to the league championship, but her world has just been turned upside down by the news that her father has been suspended from his law practice because he used some of his clients' money to pay bills; worse the news has been spread by another lawyer online, and that lawyer happens to be the father of Bea's almost boyfriend, Xander; now her fielding skills are slipping,...
Author
Series
Zoe Washington stories volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--
Author
Series
Zoe Washington stories volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Follows fourteen-year-old Zoe and her recently exonerated father as they build their new relationship and work to open a restaurant together.
Author
Series
Hex Hall novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After learning that she is capable of dangerous magic, Sophie Mercer goes to England with her father, friend Jenna, and Cal hoping to have her powers removed, but soon she learns that she is being hunted by the Eye--and haunted by Elodie.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
A young woman in nineteenth-century New York City must struggle against gender and class boundaries when her father is found dead of a supposed suicide, and she believes there is more than meets the eye, so in order to uncover the truth she will have to decide how much she is willing to risk and lose.
Author
Series
Pax volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
It has been a year since newly orphaned Peter and his pet fox Pax, now a protective father, have seen each other, but their paths cross again when Pax's kit falls desperately ill forcing him to turn to the one human he knows he can trust.
7) Hair love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little girl's daddy steps in to help her arrange her curly, coiling, wild hair into styles that allow her to be her natural, beautiful self.
Author
Series
Coyote Sunrise volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Coyote and her father rush to Poplin Springs, Washington, in their old school bus save a memory box buried in a park that will soon be demolished.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Amelia Albright dreams about going to Florida for spring break like everyone else in her class, but her father--a cranky and stubborn English professor--has decided Florida is too much adventure. Now Amelia is stuck at home with him and her babysitter, the beloved Mrs. O'Brien. The week ahead promises to be boring, until Amelia meets Casey at her neighborhood art studio. Amelia has never been friends with a boy before, and the experience is both...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Yasmeen Khoury is unhappy that her family has moved from Detroit to San Antonio, Texas, leaving her friends and Arab Christian community behind; from the very first day at school Yasmeen feels completely isolated and out of place, but she slowly makes friends with a Mexican boy, Carlos, and her Jewish neighbor, Ayelet Cohen, although she feels like she has to hide these friendships, especially from her Palestinian father, a native...
Author
Series
Order of Black Hollow Lane volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Emmy's adventure continues when she returns to school and has to deal with a sinister organization, a missing father, and secrets she's not sure with whom she can trust.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Middle schooler Liberty likes to make her own maps of the stars, in fact she is obsessed with them, especially since her family is falling apart; her parents are getting divorced, her nine-year-old sister will barely leave the house and carries a stuffed tiger at all times, her father is suffering from depression, but will not talk about it, and the brothers down the street, once friends, have turned into bullies--so when a tiny meteorite literally...
14) Tumble
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father -- who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador -- and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.
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