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1) Safe haven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katie, a newcomer to the small town of Southport, North Carolina, resists forming any personal ties until she is drawn into relationships with Alex, a young widower, and Jo, her plainspoken single neighbor, who help her overcome her fearful past.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
In this powerful story of redemption and love, a prodigal young woman from the hills of Virginia flees the men who lured her away from a godly upbringing into a life of desperation. Taking on a new identity, Mary Bridget Washburn escapes to the quaint city of Alexandria, Virginia, where her path crosses that of a widowed minister with three young children and daunting problems of his own. Can Mary Bridget and her tainted past stay hidden long enough...
Author
Series
Penderwicks volume 1
Publisher
Knopf/Yearling
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Since her father's death, Cat has taken care of her brother, Chicken, for their hardworking mother but while spending time with grandparents they never knew, Cat has the chance to be a child again.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Troy always dreamed of meeting his father, but when the man finally appears his mother's anger, his father's shady business dealings, and Troy's own feelings make the reunion difficult and confusing.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Ruby Moon Hayes does not want her new classmates to ask about her father. She does not want them to know her mother has been arrested. And she definitely does not want to make any friends. Ruby just wants to stay as silent and invisible as a new moon in the frozen sky. She and her mother won't be staying long in Vermont anyway, and then things can go back to the way they were before everything went wrong. But keeping to herself isn't...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Matt Baker is the best all-rounder on his baseball team, but can he help Big Ben Roberson improve his hitting and stand up to his father?
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The Pickles are new to Midnight Gulch, Tennessee, a town which legend says was once magic--but Felicity is convinced the magic is still there, and with the help of her new friend Jonah the Beedle she hopes to bring the magic back.
10) Reaching for sun
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Josie, who lives with her mother and grandmother and has cerebral palsy, befriends a boy who moves into one of the rich houses behind her old farmhouse.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Michael doesn't remember his father, who died in a Spitfire over the English Channel. And his mother, heartbroken and passionate, doesn't like to talk about him. But then Michael's aunt gives him a medal and a photograph, which begin to reveal a hidden story. A story of love, loss and secrets. A story that will change everything - and reveal to Michael who he really is.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Rising seventh-grader Lucy plans on a perfect summer at the Maine lake where her family has owned a cottage for decades, but family of a classmate she dislikes has bought a home there and her widowed father is bringing a girlfriend to visit.
Author
Series
Publisher
Square Fish, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Coyote and her father rush to Poplin Springs, Washington, in their old school bus to save a memory box buried in a park that will soon be demolished.
14) Close to famous
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Foster and her mother land in the tiny town of Culpepper, they don't know what to expect. But folks quickly warm to the woman with the great voice and the girl who can bake like nobody's business. Soon Foster -- who dreams of having her own cooking show one day -- lands herself a gig baking for the local coffee shop, and gets herself some much-needed help in overcoming her biggest challenge -- learning to read ... just as Foster...
15) Golden Arm
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Lazarus Weathers, a high school senior from the wrong side of the tracks, seeks to protect his half-brother while pitching his way out of poverty, one strike at a time.
16) Lemons
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After her mother dies in 1975, ten-year-old Lemonade must live with her grandfather in a small town famous for Bigfoot sightings and soon becomes friends with Tobin, a quirky Bigfoot investigator.
17) Centaur rising
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1965, a year after Arianne thinks she sees a shooting star land in the fields surrounding her family's horse farm, a baby centaur's born, and the family, already under scrutiny because Arianne's six-year-old brother has birth defects, struggles to keep the colt a secret.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Cally Louise Fisher stops talking, partly because her father and brother never speak of her mother who died a year earlier, but visions of her mother, friendships with a homeless man and a disabled boy, and a huge dog ensure that she still communicates.
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Janey, a quiet outsider, is inspired by the eccentric and enigmatic Captain Superlative, a masked superhero who runs through the halls of their middle school, performing radical acts of kindness.
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