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Author
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While his friends Bobby, Joe, and Addie are spending the summer on exciting adventures, thirteen-year-old Skeezie Tookis must get a job and help around the house, and things only get worse when his long-lost father appears.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"New historical fiction from a Newbery Honor-winning author about how middle schooler Ariel Goldberg's life changes when her big sister elopes following the 1967 Loving v. Virginia decision, and she's forced to grapple with both her family's prejudice and the antisemitism she experiences, as she defines her own beliefs. Twelve-year-old Ariel Goldberg's life feels like the moment after the final guest leaves the party. Her family's Jewish bakery runs...
8) Bhai for Now
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Ashar is busy with the ice hockey team, studying to get into the best school, and hanging out with his friends.
Shaheer and his father are always moving, following his dad's jobs. Shaheer has given up hope of finding a place where he can put down roots, a place that feels like home.
The two boys have nothing in common.
But when they meet on Shaheer's first day at his new school, it's like looking in a mirror.
They quickly figure out that...
10) Visit Pakistan
Author
Series
Publisher
Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nadia and Nadir jet across the world with their parents to visit family in Pakistan
11) Ava and Taco Cat
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
215 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Ava writes in her diary about her family, losing her best friend to a new girl, and adopting an injured, skittish, and very special cat.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During the Great Depression six-year-old Marvel, her seven siblings, and their mother find a tar-paper shack in the woods and, over the course of a year, turn it into a home. Based on the author's grandmother's childhood; includes historical notes.
14) Shadow
Author
Series
The puppy place volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
71 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Charles and Lizzie Peterson are a foster family for young dogs and they are trying to find the right home for Shadow, a black Labrador retriever.
15) Ava and Pip
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Ava uses her writing talents to help her older sister overcome her shyness, both girls learn the impact their words and stories can have on the world around them.
16) My single mom
Author
Series
Publisher
Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
My Single Mom is the story of a normal day in Kenneth's life. When classmate Lenny visits his home, he discovers Kenneth lives with just his mom. Who checks his homework? The after-school leader, Annie! Who makes his dinner? Mom! Who tucks him in at night? Mom! Lenny realizes love makes a family.
17) Swing it, Sunny!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
217 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1970s Sunny Lewin is back, star of her personal show, facing the prospect of Middle School, and dealing with the problems of her somewhat dysfunctional family--in particular her older brother, Dale, who has been sent off to a military academy because of his delinquent behavior.
Author
Series
Publisher
Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
My First-Generation Family is the story of a normal day in Manny's life. When classmate Lenny visits his home, he discovers Manny's family moved here from Mexico. Who picks up Manny from school in a taxi? Papa! Who brings home dinner from her restaurant job? Mama! Who reads Manny's bedtime story? Mama and Papa! Lenny realizes love makes a family.
20) All the families
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
See that dogs, bunnies, and elephants have families just like you. And, just like you, these families eat when they are hungry and go to sleep when it is bedtime. Join all the families in this touching and comforting story from the hidden treasures of Margaret Wise Brown, author of the children's classics Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny.