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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lucille is struggling to get through each day, paying bills and looking after her little sister, Wren, while her father is institutionalized after a breakdown and her mother is "on vacation," but nothing else seems to matter when she is with Digby Jones, her best friend's twin brother.
2) Afterlife
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of this novel, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her husband, Sam suddenly dies. And then more jolt: her big-hearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves--lines from her...
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume 6
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After learning about the American Revolution on a family trip to Boston, Massachusetts, Judy Moody makes her own Declaration of Independence and tries to prove that she is responsible enough to have more freedoms, such as a higher allowance and her own bathroom.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When accidents happen to Murdley Gurdson, they are usually his own fault, but when a bird lays an egg on Murdley's head one day, he tries hard to find someone else to blame.
5) Hands
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Trevor has an adult problem to deal with: how to protect himself, his sisters, and his mother from his abusive stepfather (currently in prison) and he thinks the way to do that is to take up boxing--although he would really rather draw.
Author
Series
Just Grace volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Just Grace and her best friend Mimi embark on a campaign to convince Grace's parents that they are responsible and dependable enough to get a dog.
7) Love is
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A girl finds a baby duckling, and discovers that love is taking care of something that needs you, and also knowing when to let it go.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A high school boy and his friends decide to form a club of "second bests" and play anonymous tricks on each other's arch rivals. When the harmless pranks become life-threatening, however, no one in the club will admit responsibility.
11) The escape
Author
Series
Horses of the dawn volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Estrella is a filly, daughter of the lead mare, one of a shipment of horses bound for the new world, but when the ship is becalmed and the horses are dropped overboard to lighten the load, Estrella finds that it is up to her to lead the herd to land and safety.
Author
Series
Magic Shop (Kate Egan) volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Mike attempts to convince his parents that he is responsible enough to be allowed to ride his bicycle to the magic shop all by himself.
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Third-grader EllRay is becoming famous for messing up, and when his little sister accidentally kills EllRay's class goldfish, and then he forgets his teacher's read-aloud book at home, it only makes matters worse.
14) Slacker
Author
Series
Slacker volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it or...
Author
Series
Louise Trapeze volume 2
Publisher
Random House Children's
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Louise, who performs in a trapeze act with her mother and father, finally gets an important job at the circus, but when things go wrong she wonders if she is really ready for new responsibilities.
Author
Series
Marvin Redpost volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Marvin is pleased when his teacher asks him to take care of her dog while she's away, but he soon finds that there's more pressure involved than he likes.
Author
Series
Here's Hank volume 2
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rescuing a Dachshund from an animal shelter after convincing his skeptical father to get the family a dog, Hank struggles to prove his trustworthiness after his new canine friend gets loose at the park.
19) Super Oscar
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
20) Maggie-now
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"In Brooklyn's unforgiving urban jungle, Maggie Moore is torn between answering her own needs and catering to the desirous men who dominate her life. Confronted by her quarrelsome Irish immigrant father, the feckless lover who may become her husband, and others, Maggie must learn to navigate a cycle of loss, separation, and hope as she forges her own path toward happiness."--Page 4 of cover.
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