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21) Heaven
Author
Series
Heaven trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her father and mother are not her real parents.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A simple board book with a sweet take on contrasts, featuring a parent and child
Big Bear. Little Bear. Big Bear's boots. Little Bear's boots. Big Bear's bed. Little Bear's bed. This simple and sweet board book, featuring bold primary-colored art, compares Big Bear and Little Bear and the big and little everyday objects-boots, teacups, chairs, beds, and more-they each use in their lives together as parent and child.
23) Two homes
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy named Alex enjoys the homes of both of his parents who live apart but love Alex very much.
24) Dear Mr. Henshaw
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fans of New York Times best-seller The Nanny Diaries will rejoice in this wickedly hilarious novel. Ivy Ames loses her job and husband in the same day. To pay for her daughters' private schooling, she starts a new business helping wealthy Manhattanites get their resume-toting youngsters into the best kindergartens. Soon her clients include media moguls, mob bosses and a lesbian couple that believes their adopted African-American disabled son is "the...
29) Little children
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
With hits like Election and Joe College to his credit, author Tom Perrotta has established himself as a master of satire. Unhappily married Sarah passes her days at the local playground with her three-year-old daughter. When happily unemployed Todd (also married) and Sarah meet, their attraction is immediate. They begin a passionate affair just as their suburban utopia is rattled by the arrival of registered sex offender Ronald James McGorvey. With...
30) The runaways
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Dani hates living in the small desert town of Rattler Springs, Nevada, but her plans to run away get complicated when a pesty young boy and an imaginative new girl decide they want to go along.
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.
32) Tune in anytime
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Sophie's father suddenly decides to divorce Sophie's mother and marry her sister Marley's college roommate, Sophie feels like she is trapped in an endless soap opera.
33) An untidy death
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Alexandra Richards approaches professional declutterer Ellen Curtis to ask her to help sort out her mother's chaotic flat, Ellen gets the impression Alexandra doesn't like her mother very much. But when Ingrid Richards' body is discovered in her burned-out home, Alexandra's exasperated words don't seem such a joke. Due to the hazardous state of the victim's over-cluttered residence, the police are inclined to dismiss her death as an unfortunate...
34) Flower garden
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Helped by her father, a young girl prepares a flower garden as a birthday surprise for her mother.
Helped by her father, a young girl prepares a flower garden as a birthday surprise for her mother
35) Pete's a pizza
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Pete feels miserable because rain makes it impossible to play ball outdoors, his father finds a fun indoor game to play with his son. On board pages.
36) The snow family
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy decides to build a snow family to take care of his snowboy the way his parents take care of him.
37) So many days
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Through rhythmic text, a parent reflects on the options and opportunities possible in a beloved child's future.
38) Regular Guy
Author
Series
Guy Strang novels volume 1
Publisher
Laura Geringer Book
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Because he is so different from his eccentric parents, twelve-year-old Guy is convinced he has been switched at birth with a classmate whose parents seem more normal.
39) Hometown legend
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Athens City, Alabama, hard times have driven the town to desperation. But with the return of an old friend, the town's football team might be able to bring back the glory.
40) Heart echoes
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"In the aftermath of a massive LA earthquake, the perfect existence Teal Morgan-Adams has built begins to crumble. Teal's daughter, Maiya, is determined to learn the identity of her biological father, despite the loving devotion of her stepdad, River Adams. But that's a secret Teal hoped would remain buried forever. She has never shared the truth with anyone--not her family, not River, not even Maiya's father. As Maiya's prying reopens old wounds,...
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