Katherine Paterson
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
The timeless Newbery Honor Book from bestselling author Katherine Paterson about a wisecracking, ornery, completely unforgettable young heroine.
Eleven-year-old Gilly has been stuck in more foster families than she can remember, and she's hated them all. She has a reputation for being brash, brilliant, and completely unmanageable, and that's the way she likes it. So when she's sent to live with the Trotters—by
...6) Lyddie
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
Author
Publisher
Harper Trophy, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Sara Louise Bradshaw is sick and tired of her beautiful twin Caroline. Ever since they were born, Caroline has been the pretty one, the talented one, the better sister. Even now, Caroline seems to take everything: Louise's friends, their parents' love, her dreams for the future. For once in her life, Louisa wants to be the special one. But in order to do that, she must first figure out who she is...and find a way to make a place for herself outside...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Birdie has questions for God. For starters, why couldn’t God roll history back to September 10, 2001, and fix things—so the next day was an ordinary sunny day and not the devastating lead-in to two wars? Daddy has already been to Iraq twice. Now he’s going again, and Birdie is sure he’ll die. At the very least, she won’t see him again for a year, and everything will not be OK. (Why do grown-ups lie?) To save money, she, Mom, and baby Billy...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Lora tells her parents that she wants to join Premier Castro's army of young literacy teachers, her mother screeches to high heaven, and her father roars like a lion. Lora has barely been outside of Havana -- why would she throw away her life in a remote shack with no electricity, sleeping on a hammock in somebody's kitchen? But Lora is stubborn: didn't her parents teach her to share what she has with someone in need? Surprisingly,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Josh, who has just moved to Vermont with his mother, stepfather, and new baby brother, must deal with the bullying of a neighbor boy and discovers that his dog, whom he hears talking with other dogs, is also facing a bully of his own.
Publisher
Disributed by All Things Family
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Louise Bradshaw dreams of the time when she can leave her isolated Chesapeake Bay fishing community and escape the shadow of her beautiful, confident and talented sister Caroline. It takes a special friendship and the birth of a new set of twins on the island to help Louise move beyond jealousy and frustration to discover her own talents and goals.
Publisher
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Best-selling and award-winning authors take on the brave new world of middle school in this remarkable collection, brimming with humor and heart. Subjects range from peer pressure, homework, family issues, and cultural barriers to the unexpected saving graces of music, art, friendship, and reading. This engaging anthology, filled with texts, emails, formal letters, stories in verse, first-person narratives, and even a short graphic novel, shines...
Publisher
Lionsgate Premiere
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Gilly Hopkins has seen more than her share of foster homes and has outwitted every family she has lived with. In an effort to escape her new foster mother Maime Trotter's endless loving care, Gilly concocts a plan that she believes will bring her mother running to her rescue. But when the ploy blows up in Gilly's face it threatens to ruin the only chance she's ever had to be part of a real family.
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Jesse Aarons is in the 5th grade and has trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. He becomes upset when new classmate Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and some other striking differences, the two become fast friends. Together, they create Terabithia where they rule as king and queen and is a land filled with monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants. This friendship helps Jesse cope with a tragedy that makes him...