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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
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In rhyming text based on "The Night Before Christmas," a family, decked in red, white, and blue, heads to the Fourth of July parade, hosts a backyard BBQ with neighbors, dodges an afternoon thundershower, and watches the fireworks show.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Living with her warden father in an apartment above a 1950s prison, Cammie O'Reilly struggles to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who died saving her from harm when she was a baby, and interacts with some of the reformed inmates.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Upon hearing a swamp monster's splashing, rumbling approach, a boy hides in a tree, where he is soon joined by his sister, brother, two cousins, and even the monster itself, until Ma arrives to bring them all home to bed.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Moosha gets stuck in the space meant for the Christmas tree, the cow family is sad until Dale, a baby calf, shows them how to make the best of the situation.
9) On the rocks
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
119 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this high-interest novel for middle readers, fourteen-year-old Dylan, sent to live on a remote island with his estranged grandfather, discovers a stranded orca"--Provided by the publisher.
10) Dear Sweet Pea
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Patricia, widely known as Sweet Pea, navigates her parents' unconventional divorce and finds herself in the unlikely role of her town's advice columnist"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Boynton Bookworks, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 15 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Pookie's family spends a terrific Thanksgiving Day together, with love and gratitude. (AND PIE!!!)"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Farrar Straus Giroux edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tractor Mac meets other big red tractors who look just like him and learns the true meaning of family"--
13) Squirm
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"This summer, Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, save a neighbor's cat, save an endangered panther, and then try to save his own father. Carl Hiaasen tells a wickedly funny, slightly twisted tale about families, figuring out what's really important, and knowing when (and when not) to let things go."--Amazon.com.
14) Leyla
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tired of her large, noisy, baboon family, young Leyla runs away and meets a lizard who teaches her to sit alone, be quiet, and do nothing.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Edgar and his mother move to Dawson, a town in Yukon, Canada, for a new start, but when Edgar fears his mother's destructive behavior will force them to leave, he turns to a dog named Benjamin to help him stop the worst from happening.
16) Tiny infinities
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Angry that her father has left, twelve-year-old Alice swears that she will live in her family's old Renaissance tent until he agrees to return; but after she meets her mute four-year-old neighbor Piper she finds herself becoming involved in the child's life--and when she hears the little girl speak a word for the first time in years she sets out to prove to Piper's parents that the dismal diagnosis they received for their daughter may be all wrong....
Author
Publisher
Phoenix International Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"Join Miguel on an extraordinary journey through the Land of the Dead, where he learns more about his family's story. Along the way, search for hidden objects in eight beautiful scenes inspired by Disney Pixar's Coco."--Publisher
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
42 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Join Dangerous Daddoo as he takes on the Tag Team Twins, Peanut Brother and Jellyfish! But what happens when Mama-Rama gets home from work? It's a Bedtime Blitz that the whole family can enjoy! (With special guest star Big Bald Baby.)"--Jacket flap.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Harassed at her middle school, not taken seriously at home, and with a "perfect" older brother, Matthew, to live up to, thirteen-year-old Claire has always felt like her life was cursed--then one morning, when she are her beloved father are talking at breakfast, her father suddenly falls over with a stroke, and suddenly everything changes.
20) Iggy's world
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
117 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this high-interest novel for middle readers, Iggy embarrasses his family with his internet podcast."--
Something's bugging Iggy. Iggy comes from a famous family. Well, sort of. His dad directs a cheesy sci-fi web series, his mom writes for it, and his sister has a successful YouTube channel. Iggy doesn't have the acting bug, so he feels like an outsider. Wanting to prove himself, Iggy starts his own podcast about what interests him: insects....