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Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
"Jeremiah just wants a normal summer with his dad, but it's clear that isn't happening. His dad just moved to an apartment near downtown Minneapolis to live with his new boyfriend, Michael. Michael wears shorts too short, serves weird organic foods, and is constantly nagging Jeremiah to watch out for potholes and to stay hydrated. Worst of all Michael rides the Uni-cycle. Okay, it's a bicycle decorated to look like a unicorn! This is going to be a...
Author
Series
Magic misfits volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Leila and the other Magic Misfits have the opportunity to perform with a famous stage psychic known as Madame Esmeralda, who may hold secrets to Leila's past.--
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
As a teenager growing up in the 1980s, all Jerry Mahoney wanted was a nice, normal sham marriage: 2.5 kids and a frustrated, dissatisfied wife living in denial of her husband's sexuality. Hey, why not? It seemed much more attainable and fulfilling than the alternative—coming out of the closet and making peace with the fact that he'd never have a family at all.
Twenty years later, Jerry is living with his long-term boyfriend, Drew, and they're...
Twenty years later, Jerry is living with his long-term boyfriend, Drew, and they're...
5) My two dads
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
410L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lenny follows Jasmine for a school project and learns about her life with her two dads.
6) Some daddies
Author
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Illustrations and text celebrate fathers of all shapes, sizes, personalities, and interests.
7) Love is love
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Language
English
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Description
"It's love that makes a family. When a boy confides in is friend about bullies saying he doesn't have a real family, he discovers that his friend's parents--a mom and a dad--and his two dads are actually very much alike." - From back cover
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Language
English
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Description
"In this family, it's just possible that Dad is a grizzly bear. . . He has fuzzy fur, enormous paws, and he loves the outdoors. He sleeps a lot, even at the movies, and when he's awake, he's always hungry, usually eating up all the honey. What else could Dad be? But sometimes, when it's scary at night, a lovely big bear hug is just what is needed."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
"After Pop is sent back to rehab, Jane Pengilly arrives at her newest foster home determined to stick to the straight and narrow and get back to her beloved dad as soon as she can. It's not the first time they've been apart, but Jane's determined it will be the last. Twelve days out in the boonies of Three Boulders makes Jane miss Pop more than ever. But as the days go by, she realizes that family is more than who you're related to--and that a home...
11) Outside beauty
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"My mother had four daughters by four different men."
There's only one way Shelby and her sisters can describe their mother: She's a sexpot. Helen Kimura collects men (and loans, spending money, and gifts of all kinds) from all over the country. Sure, she's not your typical role model, but she's also not just a pretty face and nail polish. She is confident and brave; she lives life on her own terms, and her four daughters simply adore her. These...
12) Genius Jolene
Author
Series
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
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Description
Eight-year-old Jolene enjoys a long road trip with her truck driver father, as she does every year, but this year it is different because her parents have separated and her father is with another man.
13) Keeping it real
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen-year-old Marigold's family owns Flexx Unlimited, a hip-hop lifestyle company, and she attends the elite school Flowered Arms Academy, but she has never felt entirely comfortable in the mostly White school, and she prefers to hang out with Justice, relatively new to the school, but a star basketball player; so enrolling in Style High with him, a trainee program funded by Mari's family, seems like a good way to spend the summer--until she...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Bilal's family suddenly moves to America, his father stays in Pakistan, and Bilal embraces baseball, an unexpected friend, and a new language. But this new way of life does not feel so special without Baba--will he ever get to America to see Bilal pitch a game?
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Language
English
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Description
When, on his eighteenth birthday, Jack Polovsky's almost-suicide is interrupted by his ex-girlfriend Jess's call saying she is in labor, he impulsively snatches the baby and hits the road with his best friend Tommy and Jess to introduce baby Socrates to Jack's aging grandmother.
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