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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Leaving her best friend (and secret love) Lindsay, seventeen-year-old Koda Rose moves with her mother to New York City, where Koda grows close to the ex-girlfriend of her late father, a famous rock musician who neglected his daughter.
62) The suite spot
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Float Plan comes Trish Doller's The Suite Spot, about taking a chance on a new life and a new love.Rachel Beck has hit a brick wall. She's a single mom, still living at home and trying to keep a dying relationship alive. Aside from her daughter, the one bright light in Rachel's life is her job as the night reservations manager at a luxury hotel in Miami Beach--until the night she is fired for something she didn't do.On impulse,...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Eager to get out of the big city, Ben and Caroline Tierney purchase a large, old house upstate hoping to renovate it into a hotel. However, their house, called The Crofts, has a dark, mysterious past, and terrifying secrets begin to threaten the family.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club (revised editions) volume Prequel
Publisher
Scholasic Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
During the summer before their seventh-grade year, Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey tackle difficulties, including family problems, crushes, moving, and making new friends.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1934, eleven-year-old Terpsichore's father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting the family from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska, where Terpsichore refuses to let rough conditions and first impressions get in the way of her grand adventure.
66) 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.
67) A piece of home
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Moving with his family from Korea to West Virginia, Hee Jun struggles to adjust to his new home, an unfamiliar language, and the different appearances of his classmates before making friends and bringing a familiar flower home to his grandmother.
Author
Series
Greetings from somewhere volume 1
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
[2014].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Second graders Ethan and Ella are sad about moving away from their hometown to travel the world with their mom, a journalist, and dad, who will home school them, but before they go they have a mystery to solve.
70) Willowood
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Lily has trouble leaving her best friend behind and moving to the city when her mother changes jobs, but she makes some very unlikely friends that soon become like family members.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old brilliant but socially-challenged Stewart and mean-girl Ashley must find common ground when, two years after Stewart's mother died, his father moves in with his new girlfriend--Ashley's mother, whose gay ex-husband lives in their guest house.
73) Firelight
Author
Series
Firelight novels volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Jacinda, who can change into a dragon, is forced to move away from her community of shapeshifters and start a more normal life, she falls in love with a boy who proves to be her most dangerous enemy.
74) Gamer girl
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Struggling to fit in after her parents' divorce sends her from Boston to her grandmother's house in the country, sixteen-year-old Maddy forms a manga club at school and falls in love through an online fantasy game.
76) Super burp!
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When fourth-grader George starts at a new school, he vows to become a model student instead of the class clown he has always been, but just as his plan is going really well, he is overtaken by a magic burp that turns him back into a mischief-maker.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Randi, unhappy about moving from Brooklyn to Deer Creek, Tennessee, after her mother's death, soon finds new friends and a case to solve surrounding a stolen time capsule and rumors of a centuries-old treasure.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When their scientist father moves them to a new home next to a swamp, Kelli and Shawn hear stories about a terrifying, ancient beast that inhabits the muck and the pair try to convince their father to move them out before it strikes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
When Tanner moves to an exclusive new town he misses his old skate park, but with the help of the town bully and another new friend, Tanner thinks he can figure out a way to get a skate park built in Woodville.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Olivia finds a strange message written on the bathroom walls of a few public places in her new hometown, she finds herself in the midst of a mystery to solve--and in need of a new friend to help her solve it.
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