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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery medal winner, 1984. In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lilla wants to make everyone happy, so when her best friend Vivi dares her to start telling the truth as part of their Summer of Brave, Lilla hesitates because if she says out loud what she really wants, her whole life might crash down around her.
Author
Series
Amber Brown volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Rebelling against the changes in her mother, who is seeing a new boyfriend named Max, Amber Brown neglects her homework and her room while conspiring to get her parents back together again, a situation that is complicated when she comes to like Max.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Danny has been the star catcher on his baseball team for three years, but this year his feelings about his parents' divorce seem to be effecting even routine plays.
6) Strider
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In a series of diary entries, Leigh tells how he comes to terms with his parents' divorce, acquires joint custody of an abandoned dog, and joins the track team at school.
7) Rebound time
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
65 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twin girls Sarit and Allie have always been coached in basketball by their father, but now that their parents are divorced and he has moved away, Sarit is unhappy playing on the school team, and resentful that her sister still enjoys the game.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Despite her parents' divorce, her father's coming out as gay, and his plans to marry his boyfriend, ten-year-old Bea is reassured by her parents' unconditional love, excited about getting a stepsister, and haunted by something she did last summer at her father's lake house.
9) I, Cosmo
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Cosmo would do anything to make his boy happy, but when Max decides they should learn a dance routine to stave off his parents' divorce, the old dog wonders if he will be up to the challenge.
Author
Publisher
Spotlight
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Reinforced library bound ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Amelia's divorced father invites her friends along on their father-daughter camping trip, she does not respond graciously.
Author
Publisher
Spotlight
Pub. Date
2011, c2009
Edition
Reinforced library bound ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[36] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her parents divorce, Amelia and her mother move to a new town where Amelia and her new friends pretend to be superheroes in an attempt to stop the neighborhood bullies.
13) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Headed for Canada to visit his father for the first time since his parents' divorce, thirteen-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of a plane crash, with only the clothes he has on and a hatchet to help him live in the wilderness. .
Author
Series
Amber Brown volume 3
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
101 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Entering fourth grade, Amber faces some changes in her life as her best friend moves away and her parents divorce.
15) Meet Julie
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
93 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1974, after Julie's parents divorce, she moves to a new San Francisco neighborhood where the school does not have a girls' basketball team, so she fights for the right to play on the boys' team.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.
17) You go first
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Charlotte, twelve, and Ben, eleven, are highly-skilled competitors at online Scrabble and that connection helps both as they face family issues and the turmoil of middle school.
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The first Christmas since Julie's parents' divorce is difficult for the whole family, but Julie finds comfort sharing the Chinese New Year traditions of her best friend, Ivy Ling, and thinking about new beginnings.
19) Honestly Elliott
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Elliott has been struggling since starting middle school, when his ADHD spiraled and his best friend moved away. He's not too sure where he fits in with his own family either, especially since his newly remarried dad and stepmom are expecting a baby. Especially when he already feels like his dad just doesn't get him--or his passion for cooking. In the kitchen, it's actually a good thing to have a brain that goes in six directions at once.
When he's...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In 1974 at her new San Francisco school, nine-year-old Julie does not want to tell her class about her parents' divorce, or to tell her sister about messing up her school assignment, but when she breaks her finger playing basketball and her whole family rallies around her, she realizes the importance of telling the truth.
