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1) Junonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The week of her tenth birthday, Alice and her parents go to Sanibel Island, Florida, just as they do every year, but this time some of the people who are always there are missing and some new people have come, which unsettles Alice, who wants things to be exactly the same as they alway are.
2) Snap
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Edwina confronts old and new challenges when her longtime best friend Sally faces the inevitable death of the grandmother who raised her.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"'Personally I don't mind them coming here but they might bother some of my customers.' Thirteen-year old Billie Sims has heard things like this all her life, from the grocer down the road, from her neighbors at church, from her parents. But Billie never understood what all the fuss was about. Why do blacks and whites have separate entrances to the bus station in her town of Anniston, Alabama? Why can't her friend Jarmaine, have a milk shake with...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Jillian Robichaux's coastal Louisiana town of Boutin suffers a catastrophic flood that might be too much for her community to overcome, but she is determined to keep both Boutin and its indomitable spirit alive.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Belinda "Bindi" Winkler and her family find their way through tough times with the love and support of the community that grows around their newly opened restaurant, "The Dancing Pancake."
Author
Series
Mallory McDonald books volume 24
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Mallory is not looking forward to the summer as her friends are either moving or away on vacation, but she soon learns that some changes can be good, and some things are forever.
9) On pointe
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In this novel written in free verse, Clare and her grandfather must deal with changes in their lives when Clare's summer growth spurt threatens to end her dream of becoming a ballet dancer and her grandfather suffers a stroke.
10) Someday
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1938, fourteen-year-old Celie must cope with leaving her Enfield, Massachusetts, home and her life-long friend, Chubby, as the day approaches when the Swift River Valley will be flooded to create a reservoir for Boston.
11) Woundabout
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Orphaned siblings nine-year-old Cordelia and eleven-year-old Connor, accompanied by their pet capybara, go to live with their aunt in the strange town of Woundabout, where nothing seems to change.
12) Trudy
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Trudy's life is filled with changes, mainly centered around starting middle school, and as she struggles to take them all in stride she is hit with the biggest change of all--her elderly father's diagnosis of dementia.
13) Smoke
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Colton and his mother move to a farm in California, away from his grandfather and his rodeo-champion father in Idaho, and after his cat Smoke goes missing, Colt feels even more lonely for his old life.