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21) When we collided
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Can seventeen-year-old Jonah save his family restaurant from ruin, his mother from her sadness, and his danger-seeking girlfriend Vivi from herself?
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Ivan has been happily living in a wildlife sanctuary, with his friend Ruby next door in the elephant enclosure, frequent visits from his canine friend Bob, and his mate Kinyani by his side. And in the happiest turn of all, Ivan and Kinyani have welcomed a set of twins to their family!
24) The family book
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book represents a variety of families, some big and some small, some with only one parent and some with two moms or dads, some quiet and some noisy, but all alike in some ways and special no matter what.
25) Sunny
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Sunny, the Defenders' best runner, only runs for his father, who blames Sunny for his mother's death, but with his coach's help Sunny finds a way to combine track and field with his true passion, dancing.
26) Rodrick rules
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.
Author
Series
Fourteenth goldfish volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.
28) Blended
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Middle schooler Ariel Goldberg must find her own voice and define her own beliefs after her big sister elopes with a young man from India following the Supreme Court decision that strikes down laws banning interracial marriage.
31) Wish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
"A story about a girl who, with the help of the dog of her dreams, discovers that family doesn't always have to be related--they are simply people who love you for who you are"--
Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The Penderwick family return to Arundel for Rosalind's wedding, but Lydia, who has only heard stories of the grand estate, is eager to explore the place where her older siblings had endless adventures.
34) The deceivers
Author
Series
Greystone secrets volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Told from separate viewpoints, as Finn, Emma, and Chess Greystone and Natalie Mayhew, ages eight to thirteen, continue their quest to rescue their mothers they must return to the alternate dimension where truth is illegal." --
Author
Publisher
Blink
Language
English
Description
Coming home from boarding school, Ashlyn has big plans for the summer until her wealthy father is arrested for tax evasion, her mother enters a rehab facility for "exhaustion," and Ashlyn, not a fan of the outdoors, is sent to a rustic team-building retreat center in the middle of nowhere.
38) Finally seen
Author
Series
Finally seen volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Lina Gao leaves China to live with her parents and sister, after five years apart, she must reckon with her hurt, anger, and curiosity and find a way to get her bearings in this new country--and the almost-new family that comes along with it.
39) Unbecoming
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.
40) Clean getaway
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"For the life of him, William "Scoob" Lamar can't seem to stay out of trouble--and now the run-ins at school have led to lockdown at home. So when G'ma, Scoob's favorite person on Earth, asks him to go on an impromptu road trip, he's in the RV faster than he can say FREEDOM. With G'ma's old maps and a strange pamphlet called the 'Travelers' Green Book' at their side, the pair takes off on a journey down G'ma's memory lane. But adventure quickly turns...