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61) I see you
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"A wordless picture book that depicts a homeless woman who is not seen by all the life around her, except by a little boy. Ultimately, in a gesture of compassion, this boy approaches this woman, in an exchange where he sees her and she experiences being seen"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When soldiers attack a small village in Zimbabwe, Deo goes on the run with Innocent, his older, mentally disabled brother, carrying little but a leather soccer ball filled with money, and after facing prejudice, poverty, and tragedy, it is in soccer that Deo finds renewed hope.
63) The blue mirror
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Seventeen-year-old loner Maggy Klass, who frequently seeks refuge from her alcoholic mother's apartment by sitting and drawing in a local cafe, becomes involved in a destructive relationship with a charismatic homeless youth named Cole.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression.
65) Holes
Author
Pub. Date
2001, ©1998.
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
¿Por qué ha decidido Chloe ayudar al señor Apestoso? Pues porque es la única persona del mundo que ha sido amable con ella. Sí, es probable que huela a rayos y que su perra, Duquesa, parezca una rata callejera, pero es simpático y muy educado. Además, seguro que tiene muy buenas historias que contar... ¡Y a Chloe le encantan las historias!
What if that smell wasn't a cheese aroma?
Why has Chloe decided to help Mr. Stinky? Well, because he...
Author
Series
Fitzgerald-Trouts volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"The plucky Fitzgerald-Trout siblings (who live on a tropical island where the grown-ups are useless but the kids can drive) are back! After losing the boat that had become their home, oldest Fitzgerald-Trout, Kim, has put finding a home back on her to-do list. When her sixth-grade history assignment offers a clue about the ruins of a volcanic house built by an explorer on Mount Muldoon, she and her siblings set out to find it. The castle they discover...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Skip, an eleven-year-old runaway, becomes friends with Billy, a homeless man, and together they flee a war-torn Australian city with six-year-old Max and camp out at a seaside amusement park, where they are joined by Tia, a fifteen-year-old ballerina, and her baby.
69) The tooth
Author
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Marissa, who loves candy--maybe a little too much, wakes up with a toothache, her mother takes her to the dentist and so begins a day that Marissa will never forget.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Joel Higgins has 901 unsent text messages saved on his phone. Ever since the thing that happened, there are certain people he hasn't been able to talk to in person. Sure, he shows up at school, does his mandatory volunteer hours at the soup kitchen, and spends pretty much every moment thinking about Eli, the most amazing girl in the world. But that doesn't mean he's keeping it together, or even that he has any friends. So instead of hanging out with...
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression.