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Author
Series
Amber Brown volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
2) You go first
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Charlotte, twelve, and Ben, eleven, are highly-skilled competitors at online Scrabble and that connection helps both as they face family issues and the turmoil of middle school.
Author
Series
Tillerman family volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jeff's mother, who deserted the family years before, reenters his life and widens the gap between Jeff and his father, a gap that only truth, love, and friendship can heal.
4) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
6) Southpaw
Author
Series
Winning season volume 6
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After moving to New Jersey following his parents' divorce, Jimmy Fleming tries out for the seventh-grade baseball team while also trying cope with his new life and dealing with his overly-competitive father.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Emme Remmers feels that as an only child she has to be the peace-maker for her parents rapidly deteriorating marriage, and she could use some help--so the new bakery, Daisy's Desserts, where everything is baked with love, may offer the perfect solution for the dinner she is planning for her parents' anniversary.
Author
Series
Rainbow Street Shelter volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Julie Albright, forced to move with her mom following her parents' divorce, is excited to learn her new school has a basketball team; but when the coach says girls are not allowed on the team, she jeopardizes her chances for making new friends by deciding to fight for her right to play.
12) Cookies and milk
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ellis discovers family secrets, makes new friends, and adjusts to his parents' recent divorce during a hijinks-filled summer helping his father open the world's first chocolate chip cookie store in 1976 Hollywood.
Author
Language
English
Description
EIGHT STARRED REVIEWS! The reassuring book kids and families need right now.
"An absolute original . . . a story that kids will love." —R. J. Palacio, bestselling author of Wonder
At a time when everything is changing for Bea and her family, the important things will always stay the same. A soon-to-be classic by the Newbery Award-winning author of When You Reach Me.
After her parents' divorce, Bea's life became different...
"An absolute original . . . a story that kids will love." —R. J. Palacio, bestselling author of Wonder
At a time when everything is changing for Bea and her family, the important things will always stay the same. A soon-to-be classic by the Newbery Award-winning author of When You Reach Me.
After her parents' divorce, Bea's life became different...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After a horrible year, twelve-year-old Milton spends the summer with his Uncle Evan, a naturalist on the Lone Island, where he learns about friendship, protecting the environment, and fighting for what is right.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In 1974 at her new San Francisco school, nine-year-old Julie does not want to tell her class about her parents' divorce, or to tell her sister about messing up her school assignment, but when she breaks her finger playing basketball and her whole family rallies around her, she realizes the importance of telling the truth.
16) Wonder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of hisclassmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Naomi's dog Diesel returns from the afterlife with one mission - can he save her?
It's Naomi's worst summer ever. Her dog, Diesel, died. Dad lost his job. Mom and Dad split up. The family is broke, and Naomi is stuck babysitting when she planned to take swimming lessons. Then Naomi's sometime-friend Morgan convinces her to jump off a dock. On July 1 at precisely 4:30, when Naomi drowns, destiny shifts.
Naomi awakes a week earlier to Diesel talking...
19) Water balloon
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Marley is not given a choice when her newly separated parents decide she will spend the summer with her dad and make her take a job she did not ask for, but things start to look better for Marley after she meets a cute boy who loves dogs as much as she does.
Author
Publisher
Clinescot Pub
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old CJ, while trying to adjust to her parents' recent divorce, must face the reality that the boy she loves has been involved in a school shooting. She gets on her horse, takes her dog and runs away from home to come to terms with the tragedy.
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