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Our Parenting guide tries to answer a parent’s questions of how to raise a happy, healthy child in this modern world.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Avoiding relationships to protect her sensitive heart, plus-sized Molly supports her once-cynical twin, Cassie, when the latter has her own bout of lovesickness, a situation that is complicated by sibling dynamics and an unexpected romantic triangle.
3) Nightfall
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 6
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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Formats
Description
As the battles continue, Sophie must uncover the truth about the Lost Cities' past.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: Diverse Books for Read Across America
Children's Recommended: E-Book Picture Books
Children's Special Topics: Mother's Day
Children's Recommended: E-Book Picture Books
Children's Special Topics: Mother's Day
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Description
Stella brings her two fathers to school to celebrate Mother's Day.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's New Books: September 2020 eBooks and eAudiobooks
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Description
Amber's Japanese father left when she was little, and her sister Bella was just a baby, so now she fills in the frustrating gap in her life with imagined conversations, and writes letters to Bella that seem to come from their father.
7) Two homes
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy named Alex enjoys the homes of both of his parents who live apart but love Alex very much.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Fifth-grader Winnie, with notes from her friends, writes of turning her treehouse into an embassy after her newly-divorced parents become unreasonable, where she is joined by nine others with complaints.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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AUSD Book Battles 2024: 6th & 7th Grades
Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Intermediate Grades 3-5)
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
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Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Intermediate Grades 3-5)
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
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Description
A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
11) Coraline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Middle School)
Children's Book Battles: 5th Grade
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
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Children's Book Battles: 5th Grade
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
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Description
At age twelve, Sophie learns that the remarkable abilities that have always caused her to stand out identify her as an elf, and after being brought to Eternalia to hone her skills, discovers that she has secrets buried in her memory for which some would kill.
Author
Series
Stuntboy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Children's New Books: March 2022 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Recommended: Black History Month 2022
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Recommended: Black History Month 2022
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Description
Portico Reeves' secret identity as Stuntboy allows him to use his superpower keep everybody safe, but when his superhero parents start fighting a lot he feels the responsibility to save them.
14) Honestly Elliott
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's New Books: April 2022 Ebooks
Children's New Books: May 2022 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Recommended: School Related Middle Grade Chapter Books
Children's Special Topics: Books about School for Middle Schoolers
Children's New Books: May 2022 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Recommended: School Related Middle Grade Chapter Books
Children's Special Topics: Books about School for Middle Schoolers
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Description
Struggling with ADHD, loneliness, and connecting with his divorced father who would rather see him embrace sports instead of cooking, sixth-grader Elliott finds an unlikely friend in popular, perfect Maribel when the two are paired in a school-wide contest.
15) My Maddy
Author
Publisher
Magination Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A child celebrates her Maddy, who is neither mommy nor daddy but a little bit of both, like so many things in nature. Includes note to parents.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Patrick has been desperate for a dog of his own for as long as he can remember, and this summer, with his father away, he longs for a canine friend more than ever. Meanwhile, in his short doggy life, Oz has suffered at the hands of bad people. Somewhere out there, he believes, is an awesome boy - his boy. And maybe, when they find each other, Oz will learn to bark again.
18) The slippery map
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Oyster R. Motel, a lonely boy raised as a foundling in a Baltimore nunnery, travels through a portal to the imaginary world of his parents, where he heroically confronts the villainous Dark Mouth.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While two children spend the night at Grandma's, their parents do all the things the children are forbidden from doing, like jumping on the bed with their shoes on, dressing up the dog, and getting crumbs all over the bed sheets.
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