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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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The year that she is in the fourth grade is a difficult one for Amber, as she tries to deal with escalating telephone fights between her divorced parents and her father's impending return to take joint custody of her.
10) Eggs over Evie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Evie feels unsettled and sad after her parents divorce, her father remarries and takes the family dog, and his new wife becomes pregnant, but a cooking class and helping the elderly lady next door with her cat give Evie a way to cope with the changes in her life. Includes recipes.
11) Best of the best
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Determined to play in the Little League World Series, twelve-year-old Josh struggles to concentrate on his game and be the team's leader while also trying to cope with his parents' impending divorce.
12) The river
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival. Sequel to "Hatchet."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Devastated when her parents separate, twelve-year-old Rebecca must move with her mother from Baltimore to Gran's house in Atlanta, where Rebecca discovers an old breadbox with the power to grant any wish--so long as the wished-for thing fits in the breadbox.
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Series
Rainbow Street Shelter volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When Logan's dog runs away as he and his mother are moving to a new home after his parents separate, a girl named Hannah, who longs for a dog of her own, finds him.
16) Honestly Elliott
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Struggling with ADHD, loneliness, and connecting with his divorced father who would rather see him embrace sports instead of cooking, sixth-grader Elliott finds an unlikely friend in popular, perfect Maribel when the two are paired in a school-wide contest.
17) Stand tall
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school.
18) The Landry News
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Janna Yusuf, a Flannery O'Connor-obsessed book nerd and the daughter of the only divorced mother at their mosque, tries to make sense of the events that follow when her best friend's cousin--a holy star in the Muslim community--attempts to assault her at the end of sophomore year.
20) The walk-on
Author
Series
Triple threat volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
After moving to a new town his freshman year in high school, Alex Myers is happy to win a spot on the varsity team as a quarterback but must deal with the idea of not playing for two years since the first-string quarterback is not only a local hero, he is also the son of the corrupt head coach.
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