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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...
Author
Language
English
Description
What's so perfect about the past for Sybil and Blake Gregory, a successful Manhattan couple with three children who land in San Francisco when Blake impulsively accepts the job of a lifetime as CEO of a start-up? The family moves into a grand, surprisingly affordable Pacific Heights mansion and soon meets the affable Butterfield family, who lived there a century ago. Of course the Butterfields are ghosts, and only the Gregorys can see them, but that...
3) The struggle
Author
Series
Kentucky brothers volume 3
Language
English
Description
When Timothy Fisher decides to move his wife, Hannah, and daughter, Mindy, to Christian County, Kentucky, where two of his brothers now reside, Hannah is very reluctant to leave her Amish home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Then a tragic accident occurs and Hannah blames Timothy.
4) The new kid
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When almost-nine-year-old Carson Blum and his father move to Northern California, he is worried about adjusting to his new, large, public school and finding friends.
5) Skellig
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
David Almond’s Printz Honor–winning novel celebrates its 10th anniversary!
Ten-year-old Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into the crumbling garage. . . . What is this thing beneath the spiders' webs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange kind of beast never before seen?...
Ten-year-old Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into the crumbling garage. . . . What is this thing beneath the spiders' webs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange kind of beast never before seen?...
7) Unleashed
Author
Series
Wolf Springs chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orphaned Kat McBride, nearly seventeen, must leave California to live with her grandfather in small-town Arkansas, where she is drawn into a paranormal world of feuding werewolf clans.
8) Firelight
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Jacinda, who can change into a dragon, is forced to move away from her community of shapeshifters and start a more normal life, she falls in love with a boy who proves to be her most dangerous enemy.
Author
Series
Mickey Bolitar volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents, he is forced to live with his estranged Uncle Myron and switch high schools, where he finds both friends and enemies, but when his new new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.
10) Betsy-Tacy
Author
Series
Betsy-Tacy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After Tacy Kelly moves into the house across the street from Betsy Ray, the five-year-olds become inseparable friends.
11) Life after theft
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jeff is the new guy in school and the only one who can see Kimberlee, a ghost with a lot of (stolen) baggage. To help her move on, Jeff must return everything she stole when she was alive. But being Kimberlee's accomplice turns into more than he bargained for when his crush and the cops get involved"--
12) Best to laugh
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
No one steps up to life’s banquet, holds out her tray, and orders, “Grief, please!” But as a child, Candy Pekkala was served a heaping helping of it. Every buffet line has a dessert section, however, and when a cousin calls with a Hollywood apartment to sublet, it seems as though Candy is finally offered something sweet. It’s good-bye to Minnesota and hello to California, where a girl who has always lived by her wits has a real chance of making...
Author
Series
Literary Pub mystery volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Booklover Sadie Coleman knows that in life, as in fiction, the right setting can make a world of difference. The small town of Shady Creek, Vermont, seems like the perfect place to start over after losing her Boston job to a merger and her relationship to her ex's gambling addiction. She's bought and redecorated the old grist mill pub, transforming the Inkwell into a cozy spot where tourists and regulars alike can enjoy a pint or a literary-themed...
Author
Series
Grandma Dowdel volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel.
16) Moving house
Author
Publisher
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2000, c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
17) Moving is murder
Author
Series
Ellie Avery mystery volume 1
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
18) Ian is moving
Author
Publisher
Clavis
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After packing up his favorite toys and saying goodbye to his old house, Ian finds some fun surprises at his new home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When seventh-grader Mitch Sloan moves to Jonasburg, Indiana, he uses his exceptional skills in math, money, and sports statistics to make friends--but gets in over his head when he starts a football betting ring"--
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