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Author
Series
Third grade mermaid volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Cora the mermaid is having trouble with spelling, but if she wants to stay on the swim team she has get an A on her next test--so her mother gives her a "magic" diary that compels her to practice writing, while her friends explain to her the concept of studying.
22) The quilt story
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A pioneer mother lovingly stitches a beautiful quilt which warms and conforts her daughter Abigail; many years later another mother mends and patches it for her little girl
24) Sunny Holiday
Author
Series
Sunny Holiday volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Spunky third-grader Sunny Holiday tries to make the best out of every situation, and even though her father is in prison, she and her mother count their blessings and manage to find joy in every day
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010, c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Sherry is visited by the ghost of her mother asking Sherry to help solve a case involving rhinoceros poaching at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, Sherry's involvement not only helps save the rhinos, but it also brings mother and daughter closer together than ever before
26) Valentine
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
While waiting for her mother to come home from work on Valentine's Day, Heather helps her grandmother rescue a newborn lamb and bake a special cooky
27) Falcon's egg
Author
Series
Falcon (Luli Gray) volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Taking care of her younger brother and a loving but flighty mother has made Falcon very responsible for a eleven-year-old, but she needs the help of her great-great aunt, a friendly neighbor, and an ornithologist when she finds a unusual egg in Central Park
28) Over the water
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mary feels like a misfit, both in England where she and her family live and in their former Ireland home, until a visit to her Irish relatives helps her gain a better understanding of her background, her mother, and herself
30) The moon within
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old (nearly twelve) Celi Rivera, who is a mix of Black-Puerto Rican-Mexican Indian is uncomfortable about her approaching period, and the changes that are happening to her body; she is horrified that her mother wants to hold a traditional public moon ceremony to celebrate the occasion--until she finds out that her best friend Magda is contemplating an even more profound change of life.
31) Ice
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Chrissa is sent to her paternal grandmother's farm, she learns more about her absent father and some of the reasons for her distant relationship with her mother
Author
Series
Willa Havisham books volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2010], c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
During a Cape Cod summer, Willa is enjoying her relationship with "JFK" Kennelly and the challenges of planning a wedding all by herself, but when jealousy enters her love life, best friend Tina pulls away, and the bride proves impossible to please, a sweet dog begins to turn things around
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In Oregon, eleven-year-old Hope begins coping with her mother's verbal abuse by devising survival strategies for herself based on a history unit about the Holocaust, and meanwhile she works toward buying a pair of purple hiking boots by helping at a second-hand shop.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early twentieth century, five sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances--journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor--home, Tesla's inventions will either doom or save them all
Author
Series
Calabiyau chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2010], c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Still a teen in human years, Kandide is spoiled, vain, and the personification of perfection. She is also heir to the throne of Calabiyau and keeper of The Gift, the key to survival for all Fee. When her wing is crushed in an accident, her own mother casts her away to the Mists, a treacherous land where imperfects are sent to fend for themselves. Kandide must not only come to terms with her own internal repulsion at who she has become, but must learn...
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