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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In pictures without words, the reader follows the journey of one brown paper bag from a tree in the forest through the years it is used by three generations of one family until eventually the old bag becomes the container in which a new tree is planted.
Author
Publisher
Two Hoots
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The grown-ups are having a party, and Meena would really love to join in but instead she's sent to bed. Only grown-ups get to stay up late. So the next day she makes a very important announcement to her parents: "I'm actually really grown-up now!" In this very funny story we join Meena as she plans her very own grown-up party and explores what it REALLY means to be a grown up. She has a lot of fun experimenting with fashion, going to work and party...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Tiger, sixteen, has been pushing away from her overprotective mother, but when her mother dies suddenly Tiger must learn to live when it feels she is surrounded by darkness.
It's always been Tiger and her mother against the world. And sometimes Tiger has been pushing away from her mother's over-protectiveness. Then, on a day like any other, her mother dies-- and now Tiger is alone. To her it feels like it's the brightest day of summer, but it's dark...
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this new adventure in the New York Times bestselling series, the Vanderbeekers depart Harlem to celebrate their dad's birthday. But their surprise road trip turns rocky when the younger kids try to keep their family from ever facing change. Our beloved Harlem family is putting the VAN in Vanderbeekers as they hit the highway to give their dad the best birthday surprise EVER! Re-creating a road trip Papa never got the chance to take with his own...
86) Royal crown
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Anticipating her sister's coronation, Princess Olivia visits with an American friend, while dealing with her cousin's gossiping about her relationship with Prince Kahlil.
Author
Publisher
Maverick Arts Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The little boy wants a pet, but he doesn't want any regular pet like a dog, which barks all day long and wants to go walkies or a feline friend whom sleeps all day. No, the little boy wants something special, something that goes in the water, something that no one else will have! AN OCTOPUS! The boy goes to Dad first and pitches his idea to him, but Dad replies, "a creature like that belongs in the sea". Unhappy with Dad's answer, the little boy goes...
89) A tale of magic
Author
Series
Tale of magic volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Brystal Evergreen risks everything by opposing her kingdom's repression of women, but Madame Weatherberry, seeing her potential, invites her to a school where she hopes to change the world's perception of magic.
90) The bell rang
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A slave family is distressed when they discover their son Ben has run away.
Author
Series
Pax volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
It has been a year since newly orphaned Peter and his pet fox Pax, now a protective father, have seen each other, but their paths cross again when Pax's kit falls desperately ill forcing him to turn to the one human he knows he can trust.
Author
Series
Waylon volume 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Waylon gives up a chance to meet Neil DeGrasse Tyson to help his sister, his father, and a friend when they need him most, but gains a much greater reward.
93) Bathe the cat
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dad has posted a list of chores for the family to do before grandma comes, including bathing the cat; but the cat does not want a bath, so she mixes up the instructions, and soon the family is mowing the floor, vacuuming the lawn, mopping the baby--and the house is in chaos.
94) 10 blind dates
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sophie wants one thing for Christmas--a little freedom from her overprotective parents. So when they decide to spend Christmas in South Louisiana with her very pregnant older sister, Sophie is looking forward to some much needed private (read: make-out) time with her long-term boyfriend, Griffin. Except it turns out that Griffin wants a little freedom from their relationship. Cue devastation. Heartbroken, Sophie flees to her grandparents' house,...
95) My tiny pet
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After moving to a tiny house, a little girl is forbidden to get a pet until she introduces her parents to microscopic tardigrades, also called water bears.
96) Sounder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder.
97) Unbecoming
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people ... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Pa Peachey comes home in a happy-go-lucky mood--and singing!--the family is concerned. Pa has never not been grumpy after work! But when Ma and siblings Ava and Ollie learn that Pa has gotten a new job--which means moving to an appealing new house--they are all pretty quick to get on board. Even McTavish the dog is excited to make a canine pal in the new park nearby. Only the youngest sibling, Betty, remains out of sorts--nervous about changing...
100) Firefly summer
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For as long as Ryanna Stuart can remember, her summers have been spent with her father and his new wife. Just the three of them, structured, planned, quiet. But this summer is different. This summer, she's received a letter from her grandparents-grandparents neither she nor her dad have spoken to since her mom's death-inviting her to stay with them at an old summer camp in the Poconos. Ryanna accepts. She wants to learn about her mom. She wants to...
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