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1) Puddle
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A mother and son use their imagination to have fun on a rainy day"--
3) Hand in hand
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"This sweet and heartfelt picture book celebrates all that parents do with and for their children from the very beginning"--
5) The pond
Author
Publisher
Graffeg
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A young boy and his family are trying to overcome the loss of his father. The natural world becomes part of the healing process.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When a teacher asks the children in her class to think about what makes their families special, the answers are all different in many ways -- but the same in the one way that matters most of all. One child is worried that her family is just too different to explain, but listens as her classmates talk about what makes their families special. One is raised by a grandmother, and another has two dads. One is full of stepsiblings, and another has a new...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"After Sharkey's best friend commits suicide (or was it an accident?) in front of him, he spends the summer processing his grief on an abandoned beach resort island where his dad is the caretaker"--
Three years ago JC (aka Sharkey) saw his best friend fall off a unfinished Manhattan skyscraper. Suicide, or accident? He's spent the past years withdrawing from his friends, obsessively watching documentaries, and texting his dead friend. This year...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"A boy deals with the recent loss of his mother and his odyssey to find a date for the end-of-year school dance"--
New Jersey seventh grader and class clown Denny Murphy has just lost his mother, his father is uncommunicative, he is in trouble with his teachers, and to top it all off, his best friend has a scheme to get dates for the end-of-year school dance.
10) A boy called Bat
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
For Bixby Alexander Tam (nicknamed Bat), life tends to be full of surprises -- some of them good, some not so good. Today, though, is a good-surprise day. Bat's mom, a veterinarian, has brought home a baby skunk, which she needs to take care of until she can hand him over to a wild-animal shelter. But the minute Bat meets the kit, he knows they belong together. And he's got one month to show his mom that a baby skunk might just make a pretty terrific...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Guinevere St. Clair is going to be a lawyer. She was the fastest girl in New York City. She knows everything there is to know about the brain. And now that she's living in Crow, Iowa, she wants to ride into her first day of school on a cow named Willowdale Princess Deon Dawn. But Gwyn isn't in Crow, Iowa, just for royal cows. Her family has moved there, where her parents grew up, in the hopes of jogging her mother Vienna's memory. Vienna has been...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Upon her mother's death, Wavie Conley, eleven, must go live with a scheming aunt in the Kentucky town her mother left behind.
Right before Wavie's mother died, she said: Be brave, Wavie B! You got as much right to a good life as anybody, so find it! But little did Wavie's mom know that events would conspire to bring Wavie back to Conley Hollow, the Appalachian hometown her mother tried to leave behind. Now Wavie's in the clutches of her Aunt Samantha...
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