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Author
Series
Barely missing everything volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Three Mexican-Americans--Juan, JD, and Fabi--each try to overcome their individual struggles as they all grapple with how to make a better life for themselves when it seems like brown lives don't matter"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When the city of Zollicoffer, Tennessee, where her family lives, announces plans to seize their one hundred seventy-five year old house through eminent domain, twelve-year-old Louise Mayhew needs to come up with a way to save it--and her ancestor's Civil War diary linking the house to the Underground Railroad, as well as a hidden treasure, seem to offer her family the best chance of saving their home.
964) All for one
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"Alex & Eliza's household continues to expand as they prepare for an arrival of their own, but new developments in their lives bring unforeseen consequences"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Brendan Buckley, a biracial ten-year-old, applies his scientific ability and interest in rocks and minerals to connect with his white grandfather, the president of Puyallup Rock Club, and to learn why he and Brendan's mother are estranged.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
p2011
Description
Tugs Esther Button was born to a luckless family. Buttons don't presume to be singers or dancers. They aren't athletes or artists, good listeners, or model citizens. The one time a Button ever made the late Goodhue Gazette - before Harvey Moore came along with his talk of launching a new paper - was when Great Grandaddy Ike accidentally set Town Hall ablaze. Tomboy Tugs looks at her hapless family and sees her own reflection looking back until she...
Author
Series
Cody stories (Tricia Springstubb) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Baffled by her best friend's urging to swap favorite toys, Cody sadly gives away her Gremlin toy and finds herself struggling to trust when her older brother's beloved bicycle goes missing.
969) One mixed-up night
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Unbeknownst to their parents, twelve-year-olds Frankie and Walter spend the night in an IKEA store"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.
973) The Moffats: CD (4d)
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut.
975) Walk Two Moons
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"After her mother leaves home suddenly, as thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left."
976) Tía Lola stories
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
How Tía Lola came to (visit) stay: Although ten-year-old Miguel is at first embarrassed by his colorful great aunt, Tia Lola, when she comes to Vermont from the Dominican Republic to stay with his mother, his sister, and him after his parents' divorce, he learns to love her.
How Tía Lola learned to teach: Juanita and Miguel's great aunt, Tía Lola, comes from the Dominican Republic to help take care of them after their parents divorce, and soon...
Author
Series
Ramona Quimby volume 4
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Contains two stories featuring the boisterous Ramona Quimby, including "Beezus and Ramona," in which four-year-old Ramona's imagination makes her a menace to everyone--especially her older sister, Beezus; and "Ramona and her Father," in which Ramona tries to help her dad when he loses his job and starts smoking too much.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
In the shadow of Mount Hood, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie when the girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening crescendo of screams. From out of nowhere, their father sweeps them up and drops them through a trapdoor into a storm cellar. But the sound only gets worse.