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Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
210 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
232 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt grows up on her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, learning to train the horses her father sells and trying to reconcile her strict religious upbringing with her own ideas about life.
3) Redeemed
Author
Series
The missing volume 8
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jonah was able to save all of time from collapsing but in doing so gained a twin brother, Jordan, who must learn what has happened and do his own part to save time--and his parents.
4) Sounder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The boy knows that times are tough for his family. Every night, his father goes out hunting with their great coon dog, Sounder, to try to put food on the table. But even with the little they bring back, there is still never enough for the family to eat.
When the boy awakens one morning to a sweet-smelling ham on the table, it seems like a blessing. But soon, the sheriff and his deputies come to the house and take the boy’s father away in handcuffs....
Author
Publisher
Disney - Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
While visiting her friend Mia in Texas and helping at Aunt Suze's bed and breakfast, Helicity Dunlap gets caught in a derecho and loses track of her older brother, Andy.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Siena's visions of the past intensify when her family moves to the Maine coast hoping her little brother will begin speaking, and she connects with residents of the house from many years earlier who faced a similar problem.
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
181 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Verbena Polter gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with an odd new friend who believes she is the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. In 1986, as the country waits expectantly for the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger, they each struggle with their own personal anxieties. Cash, who loves basketball but has a newly broken wrist, is in danger of failing seventh grade for the second time. Fitch spends every afternoon playing Major Havoc at the arcade on Main. And Bird, his twelve-year-old...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Yusuf is excited to start middle school in his small Texas town, but with the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 attacks coming up, suddenly it feels like the country's same anger and grief is all focused on his Muslim community"--
10) Chasing Helicity
Author
Series
The Chasing Helicity volume Book 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
204 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Helicity, not a victim of a horrific tornado but a survivor, connects with a local meteorologist and other stormchasers who support her plan to become one of them.--Provided by Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe. Eleven-year-old Gusta's life, like the world around her, is about to change. Her father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has had to flee the country, and Gusta has been sent to live in an orphanage run by her grandmother. Nearsighted, snaggletoothed Gusta arrives in Springdale, Maine, lugging her one precious possession: a beloved old French horn, her...