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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he is wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister, thirteen-year-old Branwell loses his power of speech and only his friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth about what really happened.
Author
Series
Cupcake club (Sheryl Berk) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the midst of the excitement of Jenna's mom's wedding in Las Vegas, for which the girls of Peace, Love, and Cupcakes are making a giant wedding cupcake tower, Jenna begins to worry about changes the marriage may bring.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Q and fifteen-year-old Angela expect their lives to become complicated when his mother and her father, wildly popular musicians, marry, but not that they will face spies and terrorists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Author
Series
Mallory McDonald books volume 6
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Nine-year-old Mallory turns to her diary to sort through her emotions when she finds out she has a secret admirer and her two best friends' parents may be getting engaged.
9) Sport
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1979
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Sport lives happily with his absent-minded father. His ruthless and wealthy mother suddenly wants his custody.
Author
Series
Violet Mackerel books volume 4
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Violet finds a special way to cope with moving to a new home after Mama marries Vincent.
Author
Series
Amber Brown volume 10
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Amber is nervous and excited about her mother's wedding to Max, but Amber's father makes things complicated.
12) Odessa again
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When nine-year-old Odessa Green-Light stomps out her frustration at being sent to her room after shoving her annoying little brother, one particularly big stomp sends Odessa flying through the floorboards and mysteriously twenty-four hours back in time.
13) What hearts
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After his mother divorces his father and remarries, Asa's sharp intellect and capacity for forgiveness help him deal with the instabilities of his new world.
14) Patiently Alice
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 15
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The summer after ninth grade, Alice and her friends spend three weeks working as assistant counselors at a camp for disadvantaged children and cope with all kinds of changes.
15) Fake me a match
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Avery LaDuke is put in charge of the eighth-grade charity project, an on-line matchmaking service, and tampers with the program to try to match her new stepsister and best friend, Blake, with the most popular boy in school, things quickly go awry.
16) A smidgen of sky
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year-old Piper Lee struggles to accept her daddy's death, her mama's upcoming marriage, and the new step-family that will come along with it. But when her plan to call off the wedding spirals out of control, Piper Lee must face the consequences and figure out how to fix things"--
17) The it girl
Author
Series
It girl (Katy Birchall) volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Shy, awkward fourteen-year-old Anna is thrust into the spotlight when her father becomes engaged to a very popular actress, leading to both popularity and problems at school.
18) Dani noir
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Imaginative thirteen-year-old Dani feels trapped in her small mountain town with only film noir at the local art theater and her depressed mother for company, but while trying to solve a real mystery she learns much about herself and life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Psychic investigator Gilda Joyce is appalled that her mother plans to remarry, but while they are in St. Augustine, Florida, making wedding arrangements Gilda discovers that the city is full of ghosts and mysteries, including one involving her stepfather-to-be.
Author
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Jane, a budding writer and Jane Austen fan, discovers the true secret to writing when a famous author and her cute, but annoying, son come to her small coastal town and play seemingly unwitting roles in affecting the custody battle between Jane's Hollywood mother and marine biologist father"--
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