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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
As mysterious circumstances bring Giuseppe, Frederick, and Hannah together, their lives soon interlock like the turning gears in a clock and they realize that each one holds a key to solving the others' mysteries.
4) Love, Aubrey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While living with her Gram in Vermont, eleven-year-old Aubrey writes letters as a way of dealing with losing her father and sister in a car accident, and then being abandoned by her grief-stricken mother.
6) Lucky breaks
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Having reached the mature age of eleven in the tiny California town of Hard Pan (population 43), Lucky discovers that there is still much to learn about friendship, parental trust, and the Milky Way galaxy.
Author
Publisher
Dial
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Firm in her belief that her missing parents will return to the bombed-out circus camp where she lives with a group of "leftover" children, ten-year-old Babo has no desire to leave her war-torn country.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs. Young Twig lives in the Deepwoods, among the Woodtrolls, but he isn't one of them. In a brave attempt to find out where he belongs, Twig wanders into the mysterious, dangerous world beyond the deepwoods. He meets a collection of odd companions, such as his wise...
10) The Ash House
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sol arrives at the Ash House, hoping for a cure to his rare disorder, but it is not what he expected and the longer he spends time there, the more his memories fade and reality blurs.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1955, Woodrow and his cousin Gypsy befriend a new girl in their seventh grade class in rural Virginia, and the three of them set off to find Woodrow's missing mother, encountering unlikely and intriguing coincidences along the way.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the morning of the dedication of the new children's library in Belle Beach, Long Island, eleven-year-old Julie Sweet and her six-year-old sister, Martha, find a baby in a basket on the library steps. At the same time, twelve-year-old Bruno Ben-Eli is on his way to the train station to catch the 9:15 train into New York City. He is on an important errand for his brother, who is a soldier overseas in World War II. But when Bruno spies Julie, the...
14) Take me with you
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Raised in an Italian orphanage in the years following World War II, a biracial girl named Susanna and her best friend Pina want to be adopted but fear being separated.
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