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4) Little divas
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins/Amistad
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
The summer before seventh grade, Cassidy Carter must come to terms with living with her father, practically a stranger, as well as her relationships with her cousins, all amidst the overall confusion of adolescence.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When thirteen-year-old Carmie discovers that her divorced mother, who suffers from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, was once a well-know Malibu surfer, she reevaluates the way she views her mother and herself.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The bright spot in the life of fourteen-year-old Erika Nevski is her lawyer, who supports Erika as she faces a custody battle, deals with her shoplifting friend, and tries out for the school play.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Outspoken Mags decides to help her new friend Gillian, a talented violin student, reconcile with her estranged father so that he will allow her to attend a prestigious music school in England.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Lucy Rose records in her diary her special summer plans--to make a keychain for her mother, to help decorate the living room, to prevent her parents' divorce, to vanquish some squirrels, and to enjoy a ninth birthday adventure with her father.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Fourteen-year-old high school student Michael "Storky" Pomerantz's journal describes his freshman year, from dealing with his mother's dating his dentist to attempting to win the heart of the girl he loves.
12) The viper within
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Bitter and angry after his parents' divorce, Jon joins a cult, The Religion of Hebetheus, at his high school and soon becomes embroiled in a plot to kidnap a fellow student and suspected terrorist, but their plans go terribly wrong.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Unhappy to be sent to boarding school after her parents' divorce and her father's remarriage, seventh-grader Lydia chronicles her experiences, secret feelings, and changing outlook about her situation in the diary that her grandmother gave her before she died.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Adopted by white parents and sent to an exclusive Connecticut girls' school where she is the only black student, fourteen-year-old Lahni Schuler feels like an outcast, particularly when her parents separate, but after attending a local church where she hears gospel music for the first time, she finds her voice.
15) Emily's piano
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When the family piano is sold, Emily tries to find it since it reminds her of the times when she sat underneath it and daydreamed about her parents not fighting, and she believes that retrieving it will bring back a pinch of happiness.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Fourth-grader Amber Brown must make some important decisions when her mother and Max move their wedding date up and prepare to buy a house together, while her father makes some bad choices of his own.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Juanita and Miguel's great aunt, Tia Lola, comes from the Dominican Republic to help take care of them after their parents divorce, and soon she is so involved in their small Vermont community that when her visa expires, the whole town turns out to support her.
18) Wonder
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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Formats
Description
August Pullman was born with a facial deformity that, up until now, prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid -- but his classmates can't get past Auggie's extraordinary face. Wonder begins from Auggie's point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of...
19) Thursday
Author
Publisher
Amazon Childrens Pub
Pub. Date
2022
Description
A true friend can help us through anything . . . When a little girl learns about her parents' divorce on a Thursday, it ruins her favorite day of the week. But her stuffed-unicorn friend steps in to help, taking her on adventures to cheer her up and staying by her side to comfort her when feelings are hard. Then, slowly, the little girl and her unicorn friend awaken to the natural world that surrounds them as life continues to shift and change...until...
20) Bird Lake moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Mitch and his mother are spending the summer with his grandparents at Bird Lake after his parents separate, and ten-year-old Spencer and his family have returned to the lake where Spencer's little brother drowned long ago, and as the boys become friends and spend time together, each of them begins to heal.
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