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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1200L
Language
English
Description
"From the living legend and award-winning author of Hatchet comes a laugh-out-loud middle-grade romp about a boy, his free-thinking dad, and the puppy-training pamphlet that turns their summer upside down"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Author Kevin Emerson channels Frank Cottrell Boyce in this tween sci-fi adventure about two kids from opposite sides of the country who find themselves on a road trip to save the world from an impending alien attack. Haley and Dodger have nothing in common. But that was before they learned about the strange, unexplainable phenomena in Juliette, Arizona. Before they both received summer research grants from a mysterious foundation and discovered their...
3) Borderline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite the strained relationship between them, teenaged Sami Sabiri risks his life to uncover the truth when his father is implicated in a terrorist plot.
4) Crazy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old loner Jason struggles to hide his father's declining mental condition after his mother's death, but when his father disappears he must confide in the other members of a therapy group he has been forced to join at school.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
GN 750L
Language
English
Description
"With a bolt of lightning on my kicks...The court is SIZZLING. My sweat in DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering," announces 12-year-old Josh Bell. He and his twin brother Jordan are awesome on the court. Josh has basketball in his blood, but he's got mad beats, too, that tell his family's story in verse in this fast and furious novel. Josh and Jordan must come to grips with growing up on and off the court to realize...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dear Dad: Love, Nelson is a glimpse into the life, family, struggles, hopes, and questions of Nelson-and the more than five million other children in the US who have experienced parental incarceration. Told through letters he writes his father, Nelson shares his feelings, thoughts, wishes, and happenings, from the celebrations they've had to the progress Nelson has made on the car they were fixing to how excited he is to have Dad coming home." --publisher's...
10) Papasaurus
Author
Series
Babysaurus volume 2
Lexile measure
AD 510L
Language
English
Description
Babysaurus loves to play hide-and-seek in the jungle with his Papasaurus, but one day Papasaurus hides and Baby cannot find him--so he asks the other dinosaurs--Stego, Anky, Velo, and others--for help finding his father.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the two years since his mother was killed in an automobile crash, Colin has been anticipating further disasters, writing down what to do in the event of an avalanche or mentally practicing the Heimlich maneuver just in case--but the real trouble is that his mathematician father is obsessed with a classic math problem and has a hoarding problem that is spiraling out of control, leaving Colin desperate to hide this chaos from his friends and everyone...
12) Blue-ribbon dad
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Squirrels dad is coming home soon and squirrel is making his dad a blue- ribbon surprise because he is the best dad!
15) My father's son
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kevin's life of high school classes, crushes, basketball, and shuttling between his parents' homes falls apart when his father is arrested as a suspected serial killer, leading Kevin to a new understanding of his family and himself.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Austin, a self-described screw-up, finds out that his allegedly dead father happens to be the very-much-alive rock star Shane Tyler. Austin--a talented musician himself--is sucked into his newfound father's alluring music-biz orbit, pulling his true love, Josephine, along with him"--
17) Buck fever
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Joey and his fifteen-year-old sister Philly relate their experiences trying to cope in a family already strained by the mother's extended travel, and pushed further apart by the father's disappointment that Joey is more interested in drawing deer than hunting them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
250L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This relatable story from award-winning author-illustrator Hyewon Yum explores the universal fear of first haircuts with honesty, tenderness, and humor. Little lion needs a haircut. But he doesn't want one! Is he worried? No. Is he scared? NO! He just likes his hair the way it is. R-O-A-R! But there's someone else who needs a haircut, too...it's Dad, and he doesn't want one, either! Maybe if they go to the barbershop together, there will be nothing...
19) Alien encounter
Author
Series
Alien agent volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alien agent Zack travels to Roswell, New Mexico, to search for an alien boy who's stolen a space ship in order to find his missing father, who crashed near Roswell in 1947.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1927, Nate Owens, thirteen, sets out from Bristol, Tennessee, against the wishes of his father, a self-proclaimed preacher, to find himself and the song he thinks will heal his broken family.
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