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81) Zombie blondes
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Each time fifteen-year-old Hannah and her out-of-work father move she has some fears about making friends, but a classmate warns her that in Maplecrest, Vermont, the cheerleaders really are monsters.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The little red chicken wakes up hungry for one thing: cookies! Papa thinks nursery rhymes would make a better morning treat--and an excuse to rest in bed a little longer. But with little Chicken, nothing happens quite as planned.
83) Break
Author
Series
Click volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Spring Break is full of possibilities...but not for Olive. This year, Olive is leaving her friends and all of their exciting vacation plans behind to visit her dad at his new apartment in the city. Goober is thrilled to spend a whole week with their father and has a long list of activities for their time together. Olive, on the other hand, still remembers the hurt of their dad moving halfway across the world. She would rather spend time with her...
84) The talent thief
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Seventh grader Tiffany Tudwell tries not to attract attention, but when she gains the ability to steal others' talents, Tiffany suddenly finds herself in the spotlight as she uses her powers to help save her dad's failing planetarium.
85) One jar of magic
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Joining her family in her community's annual New Year's Day magic-capturing ceremony, a 12-year-old girl who has always been lucky captures just one tiny jar of magic, revealing the true nature and beliefs of her loved ones.
86) Oddity
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a murdered physician vows to protect the magical Oddity he left behind--if only she knew what it was--in an alternate nineteenth century where the United States is at war with France.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
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...
90) Stroller coaster
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A quick-thinking father thwarts his daughter's impending temper tantrum when he transforms an everyday walk outside into an exciting strollercoaster ride through the neighborhood.
91) Boomi's boombox
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Boomi accidentally travels back in time to 1986 Thumpton-on-Soar, England, where she meets her late father as a child, changing her life forever.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Amelia Gray is used to "life on the go," but when her nomadic father suddenly decides to put down roots in a small northeastern town, she has to figure out who she is "on the stay.""--
94) Girl dad
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A fun read-aloud written in upbeat rhyming verse, Girl Dad is a picture book that honors the strong men who raise, love, and uplift strong girls."--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Exhausted and rebellious after three years of working for her father and mothering her brother, eighteen-year-old Arcadia "Cadie" Wells joins two cousins who are camping their way through Florida, soon learning that one is a murderer.
98) The whole sky
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sky, a horse whisperer like her father, must put her own troubles aside when a devastating sickness strikes the foals at the multimillion dollar horse farms where they work.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Neglected by her father who spends all of his time building a ghost machine to bring her mother back from the dead, twelve-year-old Emmaline decides that the only way to bring her father back will be to make the machine work, or destroy it forever.
100) Chasing secrets
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lizzie and her secret friend Noah, who is hiding in her house, plan to rescue Noah's father from the quarantined Chinatown, and save everyone they love from contracting the plague that is spreading in 1900 San Francisco.
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