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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It's a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what's left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse super, a rowdy family of squirrels, and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone's business. Can a dead tree full of annoying...
3) Gossamer
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.
6) Jess
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
8) Choppers
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history, features, and different types of choppers.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Red's inexplicable power over the wind comes from her mother. Whenever Ruby "Red" Byrd is scared or angry, the wind picks up. And being placed in foster care, moving from family to family, tends to keep her skies stormy. Red knows she has to learn to control it, but can't figure out how. This time, the wind blows Red into the home of the Grooves, a quirky couple who run a petting zoo, complete with a dancing donkey and a giant tortoise. With their...
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"For more than one hundred years, the home run has been the most exciting play in baseball. Read about the longest, strangest, and most important home runs in Major League Baseball history"--
12) Best family ever
Author
Series
Baxter family children volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Brooke is the perfect older sister. For that reason, Kari and Ashley work hard to make their parents just as proud of them as they are of Brooke. Each girl has her own talents. Brooke is an excellent student. Kari is a great soccer player. Ashley, a talented artist. And they are always there for each other. But when the news comes that Dr. Baxter is moving the family from Ann Arbor to Bloomington, Indiana, and the Baxters need to leave the only home...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Having shared so many foster homes that they are unable to trust that the family that has adopted them will last, Flora and her brother, Julian, are assisted by their new mother on a journey to resolve their past so that they can build a future.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After Pop is sent back to rehab, Jane Pengilly arrives at her newest foster home determined to stick to the straight and narrow and get back to her beloved dad as soon as she can. It’s not the first time they’ve been apart, but Jane’s determined it will be the last. Twelve days out in the boonies of Three Boulders makes Jane miss Pop more than ever. But as the days go by, she realizes that family is more than who you’re related to—and that...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Pavi teaches other foster children how to navigate the system, so when she learns a young girl is being placed with a terrible foster family, she recruits friends to help save her.
17) Schooled
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television, tasted a pizza, or even heard of a wedgie, but when his grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a guidance counselor and attend the local middle school. While Cap knows a lot about tie-dyeing and Zen Buddhism, no education could prepare him for the politics of public school.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the last night of summer, Emma and her Maine game warden father rescue a small domestic rabbit stuck in a fence; the very next day Emma starts fifth grade after years of being home schooled, excited and apprehensive about making new friends, but she is paired with Jack, a hyperactive boy, who does not seem to fit in with anyone--except that they share a love of animals, which draws them together, because of the rabbit.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Orphaned Jack Carr finally finds what feels like a real home in the foster care of Professor Hawthorne, who shares his love of magic and admiration of Houdini, but Hawthorne is more interested in the occult and how Jack can save his soul.
20) Give and take
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Family has always been important to twelve-year-old Maggie: a trapshooter, she is coached by her dad and cheered on by her mom. But her grandmother's recent death leaves a giant hole in Maggie's life, one which she begins to fill with an assortment of things: candy wrappers, pieces of tassel from Nana's favorite scarf, milk cartons, sticks . . . all stuffed in cardboard boxes under her bed. Then her parents decide to take in a foster infant. But...
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