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1) Nim's island
Author
Series
Nim series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Nim loves her island home and the animals she shares it with, even while her scientist father is away doing research, but trouble is on the way and a new e-mail friend could be the only one who can help.
4) Honey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Melody's mother died shortly after Melody was born, and compared to the remarkable person her mother was according to her father's stories, 10-year-old Melody feels completely unremarkable, so when Melody discovers she'll be getting a new stepmother soon, the one birthday wish she has, to have a talk with her mother, may just result in her receiving the most important birthday gift of all.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Refusing to acknowledge her imminent twelfth birthday without her former Marine father at her side, Macy befriends a sweet older lady whose dog has gone missing and who helps Macy come to terms with her father's absence.
Author
Series
Ramona Quimby volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.
10) The Gossip File
Author
Series
Dirt diary volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rachel Lee has looked forward to relaxing for two weeks at a Florida resort with her father, but when his girlfriend asks her to help in a cafe, Rachel adopts a "cool" new persona, Ava, to fit in with her older co-workers, until they ask her to help with their Gossip File.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When the precarious balance in her family's home life is disrupted by her absent father's return, Steffany turns to her love of cooking to manage what becomes the most challenging year of her life.
13) Half a chance
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucy, with her mother and her photographer father, has just moved to a small rural community in New Hampshire, and with her new friend Nate she plans to spend the summer taking photos for a contest, but pictures sometimes reveals more than people are willing to see.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In journal entries to her mother, a gifted artist who died suddenly, thirteen-year-old Georgia McCoy reveals how her life changes after she receives an anonymous gift membership to a nearby art museum.
16) Julia's kitchen
Author
Publisher
Farrar,Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When her mother and younger sister are killed in a house fire, eleven-year-old Cara struggles to find a way to deal with her emotions and to reach out to her grieving father.
17) Hatching magic
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When a thirteenth-century wizard confronts twenty-first century Boston while seeking his pet dragon, he is followed by a rival wizard and a very unhappy demon, but eleven-year-old Theodora Oglethorpe may hold the secret to setting everything right.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When her father is cursed by a rival witch, twelve-year-old Clementine Morcerous assumes his duties as Dark Lord of the realm, but soon questions her father's code of good and evil.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Quila and her father, living alone in a remote Maine lighthouse in the 1850s, find their lives profoundly changed when a baby washes ashore and they decide to keep her as part of their family.
20) The Vine basket
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Life has been hard for fourteen-year-old Mehrigul, a member of the Uyghur tribal group scorned by the Chinese communist regime, so when an American offers to buy all the baskets she can make in three weeks, Mehrigul strives for a better future for herself and her family despite her father's opposition.
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