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1) Little women
Author
Series
Little Women series volume 1
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
3) Almost home
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
4) Sunshine
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Abruptly spending a week in a northern Minnesota forest with the mother he has never met, a boy with a faithful imaginary dog learns to camp, canoe, and endure the elements while wondering if his mother will ever return home.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sophia has never told anyone about her unusual memories--snapshots of a past that never happened. She becomes convinced that the upcoming solar eclipse will grant her the opportunity to make her alternate life come true, to enter a world where her mother never died. With the help of two misfit boys, she must figure out a way to bring her mother back to her--before the opportunity is lost forever.
Author
Series
Emma McGraw series volume 6
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eight-year-old Emma is upset to learn that her mother is dating, but not passing along a message about a cancelled date makes Emma feels worse.
8) No contact
Author
Series
Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Debbie loves playing hockey and training with her coach, Steph, but she is frustrated that her new adoptive mother doesn't know anything about hockey or understand her love for the sport.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Casey lives with his father and grandfather at their family-run umpire school, and as he deals with middle school and his mother's unwelcome return, he stumbles on a sensational story that has him questioning his dream of becoming a journalist.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 53
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Drover C. Dog- faithful sidekick to Hank the Cowdog - tells the story of his life, from being the runt of the litter with dreams of being a handsome prince, to how he came to Loper and Sally May's ranch.
Author
Series
Willa Havisham books volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Willa, a romantic girl who wants a father, tries to find a husband for her mother, Cape Cod's most popular wedding planner.
Author
Series
Cloak Society volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Alex Knight, a twelve-year-old in training to be a supervillain in the elite Cloak Society, becomes friends with a young superhero and begins to question where his loyalty lies.
14) The door
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Hannah Silver can sense things that other people cannot, and living in Cliff House she is surrounded by secrets and the voices of people who are not really there--but when she finds her mother murdered she will have to confront the secret of a mysterious door that may lead to another world.
Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume 5
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Timmy Failure is banished from practicing his detective skills in the wake of a missing tooth, a teachers' strike, and his mother's romance with a doorman, situations further complicated by the disappearance of his private notebook.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Fifth-grader Claire can do a perfect triple handspring. She can do a giant pirouette on the uneven bars. What she can't do is reading. With a lot of effort, she hides her secret until an alert vice principle suggests she get evaluated for a learning disability. Now Claire has to convince her mother--who's afraid her daughter will be labeled 'stupid'--to let her get tested. And that turns out to be even harder than reading"--
Author
Series
Magic misfits volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finds Ridley managing her own prickly personality to expose Kalagan's true identity.
20) Listen!
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
During her solitary convalescence from a crippling accident, twelve-year-old Charley finds a wild dog, and the arduous process of training him leads her to explore her feelings about her mother's death two years earlier.
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