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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...
3) Moving
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes in detail the process of moving, as well as the irritation and uncertainty, the sorrow and the excitement.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When his father moves them halfway across Colorado, eleven-year-old Hugo O'Donnell is surprised that his remarkable talent for garbology makes him popular for the first time in his life.
7) Jenny's cat
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1979
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
39 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lonely in their new town, Jenny is delighted when a stray cat comes to their house, but her mother doesn't want the cat to stay.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lily is upset when her mother announces the family will be moving back to Taiwan to care for her Ah Ma, but when her mother explains Taiwan is her home, Lily agrees it is her home too.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night with Christopher at her side. Together, they find themselves drawn to the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania. It's as far off the beaten track as they can get. Just one highway in, one highway out. At first, it seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. Then Christopher...
10) Bruce's big move
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"With four geese, three mice, and a very grumpy bear all crowded into one den, Bruce is ready for a new home"--
Author
Language
English
Description
What's so perfect about the past for Sybil and Blake Gregory, a successful Manhattan couple with three children who land in San Francisco when Blake impulsively accepts the job of a lifetime as CEO of a start-up? The family moves into a grand, surprisingly affordable Pacific Heights mansion and soon meets the affable Butterfield family, who lived there a century ago. Of course the Butterfields are ghosts, and only the Gregorys can see them, but that...
12) Yard sale
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl named Callie learns that her family will be moving from their house to a smaller apartment, and must have a yard sale to downsize their possessions. Callie is sad to see strangers bargaining for precious family mementos, but she eventually realizes that home is about family rather than things.
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
After his family moves into their new house, Louis the fox discovers a very frightened monster living under his bed, and when he takes the monster to the park with him, the monster helps him make new friends.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Aref, a third-grader who lives in Muscat, Oman, refuses to pack his suitcase and prepare to move to Michigan, his mother asks for help from his grandfather, his Siddi, who takes Aref around the country, storing up memories he can carry with him to a new home.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana isn't overly worried. After all, Granny has many middle-of-the-night ideas. But this time, things are different. This time, Granny intends for them never to return. Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly, Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and Granny)...
Author
Publisher
Scholasic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
215 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the summer before their seventh-grade year, Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey tackle difficulties, including family problems, crushes, moving, and making new friends.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ellen moves with her mother and her Yorkie named Baxter to a new neighborhood where before too long Ellen is pleased to feel right at home with some unexpected help from Baxter.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley," with a new stepfamily but no new friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters.