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2) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Brian is on his way to Canada to visit his estranged father when the pilot of his small prop plane suffers a heart attack. Brian is forced to crash-land the plane in a lake--and finds himself stranded in the remote Canadian wilderness with only his clothing and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present before his departure.
Brian had been distraught over his parents' impending divorce and the secret he carries about his mother, but now he is truly...
Author
Series
Amber Brown volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Unhappy over her parents' divorce and her mother's boyfriend Max, nine-year-old Amber finds her schoolwork suffering.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Since her parents' divorce, Dawn lives in Connecticut with her mother while her brother and father are in California, but after a week's vacation in sunny, healthy southern California, Dawn isn't sure she wants to return to the East Coast.
6) Endangered
Author
Series
Ape quartet volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Sophie is not happy to be back in the Congo for the summer, but when she rescues an abused baby bonobo she becomes more involved in her mother's sanctuary--and when fighting breaks out and the sanctuary is attacked, it is up to Sophie to rescue the apes and somehow survive in the jungle.
Author
Series
Monsterstreet volume 4
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
The best summer of Harper's life might be her last. On the way to camp Moon Lake, the most magical summer camp on earth, all Harper can think about is her parents' looming divorce. Soon enough, though, the outdoor movie theater, the water park, and the chocolate buffet begin to work their magic on her. But then campers start to disappear, and Harper notices the counselors acting unusual. The cheerful facade of the camp falls apart to reveal strange...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Mitch and his mother are spending the summer with his grandparents at Bird Lake after his parents separate, and ten-year-old Spencer and his family have returned to the lake where Spencer's little brother drowned long ago, and as the boys become friends and spend time together, each of them begins to heal.
10) Dream on, Amber
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
My name is Amber Alessandra Leola Kimiko Miyamoto.I have no idea why my parents gave me all those hideous names but they must have wanted to ruin my life, and you know what? They did an amazing job.As a half-Japanese, half-Italian girl with a ridiculous name, Amber's not feeling molto bene (very good) about making friends at her new school.But the hardest thing about being Amber is that a part of her is missing. Her dad. He left when she was little...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Ever since her mother left, Maia's struggled with depression, which has only gotten worse since her father remarried. So she decides run away to Canada to find her mother, together with Billy, a boy who now lives in a group home and has his own family tragedy. But when they finally arrive in Tadoussac, Quebec, Maia discovers that her mother has been keeping secrets.
14) Dear Mr. Henshaw
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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Formats
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.
15) My two homes
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Lenny follows Skye for a school project and learns about her life with two homes.
16) You can run
Author
Series
Robyn Hunter mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Robyn learns difficult truths about Trisha Hanover's life and finds herself in danger while investigating the disappearance of the teen who ran away from home.
17) Out of my shell
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
On Anna Maria Island, Florida, with her mother and younger sister, Lanie, for the summer vacation, twelve-year old Olivia is upset by her parents' divorce, especially as she has always been closest to her father who is not with them this year; she plans to lie low and nurse her hurt and anger--until she learns that the local population of sea turtles is threatened by her neighbor's beach house and realizes that she has to do something about it.
18) Always my dad
Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Although she does not get to see her father very often, a girl enjoys the time she and her brothers spend with him one summer while they are visiting their grandparents' farm.
19) Rebound time
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Twin girls Sarit and Allie have always been coached in basketball by their father, but now that their parents are divorced and he has moved away, Sarit is unhappy playing on the school team, and resentful that her sister still enjoys the game.