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Author
Publisher
Yearling Books
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Edition
1st Yearling ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
271 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Sherry Baldwin hosts a makeover sleepover that causes horrible reactions in her friends' skin, she enlists the help of her mother, a ghost detective at the Academy of Spirits, to help solve the mystery of the tainted makeup.
Author
Series
Heartland volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
184 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve years after the last time she has seen him, Amy's father visits her at Heartland, and Amy wonders if they can ever reconcile their differences.
Author
Series
Heartland volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
157 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amy ignores her sister Lou's attempt to get in touch with their estranged father, deciding she does not want him back in her life, but problems with a new horse help her to forget the past and face the future with hope.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a scrapbook derived from journals, letters, photographs, and watercolor paintings, the life of the last Russian princess is recreated, providing glimpes into her home life, the revolution, and her family's subsequent captivity.
5) Unhappy Appy
Author
Series
Winnie the horse gentler volume 5
Publisher
Tyndale Kids
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
183 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Winnie still struggles through life without her mother, she must now face the new woman that her father brings to Thanksgiving dinner.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
270 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While on vacation with her parents, Philippa Fisher befriends Robyn, a girl with sad eyes and a strict father, and while she enjoys the company, Philippa cannot help but wonder what Robyn and her dad might be hiding.
Author
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
[2010], c2009
Edition
1st Yearling ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sherry helps her mother, a ghost, to investigate who is stalking Sherry's stepmother, but Sherry is also very busy with school and friends, while her mother is also striving for a gold medal in the Ghostlympics.
8) The escape
Author
Series
Horses of the dawn volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
219 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Estrella is a filly, daughter of the lead mare, one of a shipment of horses bound for the new world, but when the ship is becalmed and the horses are dropped overboard to lighten the load, Estrella finds that it is up to her to lead the herd to land and safety.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Fig enrolls in an art class to better understand her father, a composer and pianist whose mental illness she tries to conceal from classmates, neighbors, and social services.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Isabel dreams of seeing the world but has never left Oregon, and so when her best friend, Sophie, tells her of a baking contest whose winners travel to New York City, she eagerly enters despite concerns about her mother, who is opening a cupcake bakery. Includes recipes.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The Pickles are new to Midnight Gulch, Tennessee, a town which legend says was once magic--but Felicity is convinced the magic is still there, and with the help of her new friend Jonah the Beedle she hopes to bring the magic back.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
151 p. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grader Amber Brown must make some important decisions when her mother and Max move their wedding date up and prepare to buy a house together, while her father makes some bad choices of his own.
Author
Series
Royal Ballet School diaries volume 1
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
After moving from Chicago to Oxford, England, ten-year-old Ellie worries about making new friends at school and caring for her mother who has multiple sclerosis, while also preparing to audition for the resident dancers training program at London's Royal Ballet School.
15) Show way
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sequel to: Caleb's story. Eight-year-old Cassie Witting is upset when she finds out that her mother, Sarah, is expecting a baby, but writing in the journal that was her brother Caleb's helps her sort out her feelings and she finally learns that Sarah will always love her.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Caroline Abbott's father is taken prisoner during the War of 1812, she tries to stay strong by helping her mother run the family's shipyard and aiding American soldiers when the British attack her village.
Author
Series
Ramona volume 5
Pub. Date
1979
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ramona at 7 1/2 sometimes feels discriminated against by being the youngest in the family.
Author
Series
Pax volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
It has been a year since newly orphaned Peter and his pet fox Pax, now a protective father, have seen each other, but their paths cross again when Pax's kit falls desperately ill, forcing him to turn to the one human he knows he can trust.