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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
From award-winning author Sara Zarr comes a story of the small moments that show us who we are, and how family is not just something you're part of, but something you make. Lou and her family don't have much, but for Lou it's enough. Mom. Her sister, Casey. Their apartment in the city. Her best friend, Beth. It would be better if Dad could stop drinking and be there for her and Casey, and if they didn't have to worry about money all the time. But...
5) Little land
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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"An environmental tale of land evolving over the millennia up to present day environmental changes, as well as the role one can take in caring for it"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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"As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes -- big or small -- in the world, in their communities, and in most importantly, in themselves."--
10) Crash
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.
11) Uno's garden
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Uno builds a home and garden in the magnificent forest among the playful puddlebuts and feathered frinklepods, but as the place becomes more and more popular, it is overtaken by tourists and buildings until the forest and animals seem to disappear altogether.
Author
Series
Clementine volume 5
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Third-grader Clementine tries to adjust to the news that her perfect family of four is adding a new brother or sister.
13) Junonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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Description
The week of her tenth birthday, Alice and her parents go to Sanibel Island, Florida, just as they do every year, but this time some of the people who are always there are missing and some new people have come. This unsettles Alice, who wants things to be exactly the same as they alway have been.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Natty copes with her parents splitting up, moving in with her grandparents, and starting a new school by maintaining and spreading a positive attitude, but she soon realizes it is more important to feel her feelings than it is to be eternally peppy.
Author
Series
Clementine volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Third-grader Clementine tries to adjust to the news that her perfect family of four is adding a new brother or sister.
17) Me three
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Eleven-year-old Rodney is starting sixth grade in a new school, in a new home in a new state. The new school is really old and smells like someone ate a couple of pounds of glue and then barfed it back up, and he's in a class with a bunch of kids who seem to sort of hate him. Even his best friend won't write him back. It's strange, because just a couple of months ago, Rodney was one of the most popular guys in his fifth-grade class. He lived in Las...
Author
Series
Sophie Hartley books volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
A girl in a large family is looking forward to her first "double digit" birthday, but soon discovers that growing up brings some unwanted changes.
19) The magic finger
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Angered by a neighboring family's sport hunting, an eight-year-old girl turns her magic finger on them.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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"You’re told that This won’t work, But how will you know If you never try?... Sometimes the world feels broken. And problems seem too big to fix. But somehow, we all have the power to make a difference. With a little faith, and maybe the help of a friend, together we can find beauty and create change." --publisher's website.