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1) 1001 cranes
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
230 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
With her parents on the verge of separating, a devastated twelve-year-old Japanese American girl spends the summer in Los Angeles with her grandparents, where she folds paper cranes into wedding displays, becomes involved with a young skateboarder, and learns how complicated relationships can be.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"New historical fiction from a Newbery Honor-winning author about how middle schooler Ariel Goldberg's life changes when her big sister elopes following the 1967 Loving v. Virginia decision, and she's forced to grapple with both her family's prejudice and the antisemitism she experiences, as she defines her own beliefs. Twelve-year-old Ariel Goldberg's life feels like the moment after the final guest leaves the party. Her family's Jewish bakery runs...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A story told in alternating chapters from each girl's point of view follows polar opposites Allie and Sage, one American and one British, who become friends and confidantes when their families swap houses.
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"New York City middle-schooler Val teams up with a strange boy who lives in an even stranger bookshop to save her best friend who has lost her way in this story about universal friendship"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
107 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In her first week in fourth grade (exiled to a new school because of redistricting) Curious decides that she wants to be a scientist, and her first task is to sharpen her powers of observation by observing her large family, three older sisters and three younger brothers--and try and become effectively invisible in her new class.
10) Behind the plate
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.
11) 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.
12) Summer of Brave
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.
