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Author
Series
Ramona Quimby volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.
Author
Series
Heartland volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When her mean, grouchy grandmother in Texas has a heart attack and she and father go to help, twelve-year-old Mieka meets her cousins' family and wishes for their "normal" type of life.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zita, cast aside by her father and raised as a kitchen maid, learns when she is nearly twelve that she is a princess and that her twelve sisters love her, and so when she discovers they are victims of an evil enchantment, she desperately tries to sav
Author
Series
Kate Gordon adventures volume 3
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When she joins her father and several others investigating a strange whirlpool and possible sunken treasure ship off the coast of Baja California, thirteen-year-old Kate is drawn into a centuries-old conflict between Merlin and the evil Vagar.
9) Ice
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Chrissa is sent to her paternal grandmother's farm, she learns more about her absent father and some of the reasons for her distant relationship with her mother.
10) Natalie's secret
Author
Series
Camp confidential volume 1
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When her mother makes her leave Manhattan to attend a summer camp in Pennsylvania, eleven-year-old Natalie tries to overcome her aversion to nature and makes new friends while, at the same time, keeping the identity of her famous father a secret.
11) Witch catcher
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having just moved into the West Virginia home they inherited from a distant relative, twelve-year-old Jen is surprised that her father is already dating a local antiques dealer, but more surprised by what the spooky woman really wants.
12) Possum summer
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While her father is away at war, eleven-year-old Princess ignores his warning that pet ownership leads to pain when she raises an orphaned possum on their Oklahoma ranch, then tries to send it back to the wild.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Quila and her father, living alone in a remote Maine lighthouse in the 1850s, find their lives profoundly changed when a baby washes ashore and they decide to keep her as part of their family.
Author
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In journal entries to her mother, a gifted artist who died suddenly, thirteen-year-old Georgia McCoy reveals how her life changes after she receives an anonymous gift membership to a nearby art museum.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ruby Miller, movie buff and aspiring screen writer, tries to resolve the mysteries surrounding her little brother's stuffed woolly mammoth and their father's five year absence.
16) Confetti girl
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After the death of her mother, Texas sixth-grader Lina's grades and mood drop as she watches her father lose himself more and more in books, while her best friend uses Lina as an excuse to secretly meet her boyfriend.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
During the Great Depression, twelve-year-old Artie Wilson, determined to escape plowing and planting the fields and milking the cow on her family's farm, longs to leave Buck Creek, Kentucky, and her life of poverty.
Author
Series
Tales of Rowan Hood volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In her quest to connect with Robin Hood, the father she has never met, thirteen-year-old Rosemary disguises herself as a boy, befriends a half-wolf, half-dog, a runaway princess, and an overgrown boy whose singing is hypnotic, and makes peace with he
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