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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Description
When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.
2) Crash
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
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Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
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A chorus of men who died of AIDS observes and yearns to help a cross-section of today's gay teens who navigate new love, long-term relationships, coming out, self-acceptance, and more in a society that has changed in many ways.
Based on true events—and narrated by a Greek Chorus of the generation of gay men lost to AIDS— Two Boys Kissing follows Harry and Craig, two seventeen-year-olds who are about to take part in a 32-hour marathon of kissing...
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Series
Very fairy princess volume 6
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
As the school year draws to an end, Gerry has a hard time finding her sparkle knowing that she will say goodbye to her teacher, Miss Pym, and class pet Houdini, and start anew in a classroom where she may not be recognized as a very fairy princess.
6) Junonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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Description
The week of her tenth birthday, Alice and her parents go to Sanibel Island, Florida, just as they do every year, but this time some of the people who are always there are missing and some new people have come. This unsettles Alice, who wants things to be exactly the same as they alway have been.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Natty copes with her parents splitting up, moving in with her grandparents, and starting a new school by maintaining and spreading a positive attitude, but she soon realizes it is more important to feel her feelings than it is to be eternally peppy.
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Series
Clementine volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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Third-grader Clementine tries to adjust to the news that her perfect family of four is adding a new brother or sister.
10) The magic finger
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Angered by a neighboring family's sport hunting, an eight-year-old girl turns her magic finger on them.
Author
Series
Sophie Hartley books volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
A girl in a large family is looking forward to her first "double digit" birthday, but soon discovers that growing up brings some unwanted changes.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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"As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes -- big or small -- in the world, in their communities, and in most importantly, in themselves."--
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
From award-winning author Sara Zarr comes a story of the small moments that show us who we are, and how family is not just something you're part of, but something you make. Lou and her family don't have much, but for Lou it's enough. Mom. Her sister, Casey. Their apartment in the city. Her best friend, Beth. It would be better if Dad could stop drinking and be there for her and Casey, and if they didn't have to worry about money all the time. But...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"You’re told that This won’t work, But how will you know If you never try?... Sometimes the world feels broken. And problems seem too big to fix. But somehow, we all have the power to make a difference. With a little faith, and maybe the help of a friend, together we can find beauty and create change." --publisher's website.
15) An egg is an egg
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Pub. Date
c1997
Description
A poetic explanation of how everything changes--eggs to chicks, branches to sticks, green to white, and day to night.
16) Dear friends
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Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Eleni is the kind of person who's always had a BFF--an automatic, guaranteed by-her-side person--at home, at school, and at camp. And since before she was even born, her very best friend has been Sylvie Bank. But when Sylvie's end-of-summer birthday party becomes the end of their friendship, Eleni can't picture starting middle school without her BFF by her side"--Provided by publisher.
17) Rosetown summer
Author
Series
Rosetown books volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
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Description
In 1973, Flora loves living in the quiet town of Rosetown, Indiana, where change is not constant, but life takes a decided turn during the summer between fourth and fifth grades.
18) Moonpenny Island
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
On Moonpenny Island, eleven-year-old Flor O'Dell experiences a series of life changes after her best friend is sent away to a private school.