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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her pen pal, Amy. When she arrives, however, she finds that Amy's funeral has just ended. Luckily, the townspeople are happy to look after their bewildered tourist--even if they don't understand her peculiar need for books. Marooned in a farm town that's almost beyond repair, Sara starts a bookstore in honor of her friend's memory. All she wants...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn't play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone's business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he's been emailing, will be compromised. With some...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Young Mickey, who lives on a faraway moon, receives a distress call from his pen pal, Quiggle, whose space scooter has crashed on a nearby asteroid, and they both get a big surprise when they finally meet face to face.
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Hart Ralston is a marshal, tasked with patrolling the wasteland of Tanria, hunting for drudges. It's an unforgiving job, and Hart's got nothing but time to ponder his loneliness. Mercy Birdsall never has a moment to herself. She's been single-handedly keeping Birdsall & Son Undertakers afloat - despite definitely not being a son - in defiance of sullen jerks like Hart Ralston, who seems to have a gift for showing up right when her patience is thinnest....
7) Extra credit
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
When Abby's first letter arrives at a small school in Afghanistan, Sadeed Bayat is chosen to be her pen pal ... well, kind of. He is the best writer, but he is also a boy, and in his village it is not appropriate for a boy to correspond with a girl. So his younger sister dictates and signs the letter, until Sadeed decides what his sister is telling Abby isn't what he'd like Abby to know. As letters go back and forth between Illinois and Afghanistan,...
Author
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In this funny and poignant novel, two strangers learn that their soul mate might be both as close as breath and as distant as a star, from British Fantasy Award recipient Sarah Lotz. Bee thinks she has everything: a successful business repurposing wedding dresses, and friends who love and support her. She's given up on finding love, but that's fine. There's always Tinder. Nick thinks he has nothing: his writing career has stalled after early promise...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Mix
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Scarlett hates everything about her new all-girl school, but when she receives a strange letter that contains four truths and a lie and hints at a secret she is hiding, she soon realizes that this new school will not be dull.
Author
Series
Three-ring rascals volume 5
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The animals of Sir Sidney's Circus enter a contest at the Iowa State Fair in hopes of winning a $5,000 prize that could save Farmer Farley's farm and his prize pig, Pablo"--
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Eleven-year-old knuckleball pitcher Vivy Cohen, who has autism, becomes pen pals with her favorite Major League baseball player after writing a letter to him as an assignment for her social skills class.
12) Same sun here
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old Indian immigrant in New York City and a Kentucky coal miner's son become pen pals, and eventually best friends, through a series of revealing letters exploring such topics as environmental activism, immigration, and racism.
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This book is about friendship and the distinctions of living in different parts of the world. A giraffe that lives in Africa meets a pelican who is a mailman. Since the giraffe is bored, she sends a letter to the first animal the pelican can find on the other side of the horizon. The letter passes on to a seal who gives it to a penguin. He reads the letter and even though he does not understand it he writes back, and becomes the giraffe's pen pal....
14) Dear Blue Sky
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Shortly after Cass's big brother is deployed to fight in Iraq, Cass becomes pen pals with an Iraqi girl who opens up her eyes to the effects of war"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Bridgertons are less a family than a force of nature. Through eight bestselling novels, readers laughed, cried, and fell in love. But they wanted more. And so the readers asked the author: what happens next? Does Simon ever read his father's letters? Do Francesca and Michael become parents? Who would win in a Pall Mall grudge match? Here, Quinn delivers eight sexy, funny, and heartwarming "2nd Epilogues" plus a bonus story about none other than...
17) Dear pen pal
Author
Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Four very different friends in Concord, Massachusetts, and their mothers continue their book club, reading Jean Webster's "Daddy Long-Legs," while getting to know their own pen pals from Wyoming.
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie Lévy of Paris, France, is a girl. In spite of his initial reluctance, their letters continue over the years. They fight for their friendship even as Charlie endures the Nazi occupation and Alex leaves his family in an internment camp and joins the Army. -- adapted from run-on sentence provided
19) Love, Simon
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Everyone deserves a great love story, but for seventeen-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying, and life-changing.
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