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41) Georgia Rules
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Perfect for fans of One for the Murphys and The Penderwicks, this poignant and moving middle grade novel tells the story of a girl who moves to a new town and meets an unforgettable family-one that will change her and her mother's lives forever.
Magnolia Grace never wanted to leave Georgia. She never wanted to move with her mama to the farm her daddy owned before he died. But now here she is, in a tiny Vermont town where everybody sings the praises...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
"Eleven-year-old Kemi Carter loves scientific facts, specifically probability. It's how she understands the world and her place in it. Kemi knows her odds of being born were 1 in 5.5 trillion, and that the odds of her having the best family ever were even lower. Yet somehow, Kemi lucked out. But everything Kemi thought she knew changes when she sees an asteroid hover in the sky, casting a purple haze over her world. AMPLUS-68 has an 84.7% chance...
43) Noggin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
After dying at age sixteen, Travis Coates' head was removed and frozen for five years before being attached to another body, and now the old Travis and the new must find a way to coexist while figuring out changes in his relationships.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Macy Hollinquest is eleven years old, and don't count on her to change that anytime soon. Her birthday is just days away, but she has no intention of turning twelve without her dad by her side. He'd promised to be there for her big day, and yet he's been gone for months-away after his discharge from the army, doing some kind of top secret, "important work."
So Macy's staying eleven, no matter what-that is, until she meets Ginger, a nice older lady...
45) Devil's bridge
Author
Pub. Date
[1994], c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Twelve year old Ben must cope with the loss of his father, who died the year before, and his mother's overprotectiveness when he enters the annual Striped Bass Derby on Martha's Vineyard.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
"There are zero reasons for Theo Ripley to look forward to his family vacation. Not only are he, sister Laura, and nature-obsessed Dad going to Big Bend, the least popular National Park, but once there, the family will be camping. And Theo is an indoor animal. It doesn't help that this will be the first vacation they're taking since Mom passed away. Once there, the family contends with 110 degree days, wild bears, and an annoying amateur ornithologist...
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Description
This place is magic . . . but it's not the sort of magic that comes from wands and spells... Can piecing together the past help you change the present? Safiya and her mum have never seen eye to eye. Her mum doesnt understand Safiya's love of gaming and Safiya doesn't think they have anything in common. As Safiya struggles to fit in at school she wonders if her mum wishes she was more like her confident best friend Elle. But then her mum falls into...
54) Vanishing
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Eleven-year-old Alice is unwilling to return to live with her alcoholic mother and her stern stepfather, so she refuses to eat to the point of slowly starving herself, in order to remain in the hospital.
55) Death is stupid
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
""She's in a better place now," adults say again and again. But mortality doesn't seem better, it seems stupid. This forthright exploration of grief and mourning recognizes the anger, confusion, and fear that we feel about death. Necessary, beautiful, and ultimately reassuring, Death Is Stupid is an invaluable tool for discussing death, but also the possibilities for celebrating life and love. The Ordinary Terrible Things Series shows children who...
56) Undone
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Sixteen-year-olds Serena and Kori look alike but have opposite personalities and live very different lives in Kismet, Colorado, but when tragedy strikes, Serena decides to complete Kori's list of "5 Secret Things" and uncovers, in the process, the mystery that has bound them together.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"In the two years since his mother was killed in an automobile crash, Colin has been anticipating further disasters, writing down what to do in the event of an avalanche or mentally practicing the Heimlich maneuver just in case--but the real trouble is that his mathematician father is obsessed with a classic math problem and has a hoarding problems that is spiraling out of control, leaving Colin desperate to hide this chaos from his friends and everyone...
58) Riding wild
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024].
Description
"A twelve-year-old girl learns to ride bulls in order to be close to the famous bull-riding father she lost long ago"--
59) The savage
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
A boy tells about a story he wrote when dealing with his father's death about a savage kid living in a ruined chapel in the woods--and the tale about the savage kid coming to life in the real world.
60) Dear Star Baby
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
After his mother tells him the baby she was expecting went to be with the stars, a young boy writes a letter to his unborn sibling describing the things he was looking forward to doing together.