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1) Little bear
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
370L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four stories center around Mother Bear and Little Bear who not only takes a trip to the moon, but has a birthday party as well.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Conor, dealing with his mother's illness, a less-than-sympathetic grandmother, and bullying classmates, finds a most unlikely ally when a monster appears at his bedroom window. Ancient, wild, and relentless, the monster guides Conor on a journey of courage, faith, and truth.
4) Ben is back
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When a drug addict surprises his family by returning home on Christmas Eve, he and his mother realize that they must rebuild their relationship.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Formats
Description
The bestselling coming-of-age classic novel by John Irving-now in a limited 40th anniversary edition with a new introduction by the author. The opening sentence of John Irving's breakout novel, The World According to Garp, signals the start of sexual violence, which becomes increasingly political. "Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater." Jenny is an unmarried nurse; she becomes a single...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Toole's lunatic and sage novel introduces one of the most memorable characters in American literature, Ignatius Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubs "slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one." Set in New Orleans, A Confederacy of Dunces outswifts Swift, one of whose essays gives the book its title. As its characters burst into life, they leave the region and literature forever changed by their...
7) Bloodstream
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
A small-town doctor and widowed mother confronts a shocking conspiracy behind an epidemic for which she herself is forced to take the blame.
8) Onward
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Ian Lightfoot comes of age, his mother gives him the magical staff of his late father, which will let him cast a spell to spend one more day with his dad. But the spell goes awry and he has only 24 hours to set it right, so he and his older brother embark on an epic quest, with their mother trailing after, trying to protect them from a dangerous curse.
10) The nix
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
"An epic novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and how his search to uncover the secrets of her life leads him to reclaim his own"--
11) I wanna iguana
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 460L
Language
English
Description
Alex and his mother write notes back and forth in which Alex tries to persuade her to let him have a baby iguana for a pet.
13) Fierce kingdom
Author
Language
English
Description
"An electrifying novel about the primal and unyielding bond between a mother and her son, and the lengths she'll go to to protect him. The zoo is nearly empty as Joan and her four-year-old son soak up the last few moments of playtime. They are happy, and the day has been close to perfect. But what Joan sees as she hustles her son toward the exit gate minutes before closing time sends her sprinting back into the zoo, her child in her arms. And for...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Eight or so decades ago, Eileen Webster was working a math problem on the blackboard of her Dayton, Ohio, classroom when an eraser bounced off a few feet to one side of her. The eraser had been launched by a classmate, Jim Dicke, who with characteristic directness had decided this would be a good way to gain the attention of the young woman standing at the front of a class. I was a hit or miss proposition so to speak, but it succeeded. Willeen and...
15) Kidnap
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A typical afternoon in the park turns into a nightmare for single mom Karla Dyson when her son suddenly disappears. Without a cell phone and knowing she has no time to wait for police help, Karla jumps in her own car and sets off in pursuit of the kidnappers. Karla will stop at nothing to recover her kidnapped son.
17) Open house
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite...
18) Time is a mother
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Ocean Vuong's second collection of poetry looks inward, on the aftershocks of his mother's death, and the struggle - and rewards - of staying present in the world. Time Is a Mother moves outward and onward, in concert with the themes of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, as Vuong continues, through his work, his profound exploration of personal trauma, of what it means to be the product of an American war in America, and how to circle these fragmented...
19) The guilt trip
Language
English
Formats
Description
The plan for a quick stop at Mom's takes a turn when an impulse compels Andy to invite his mother, Joyce, on a three-thousand mile cross-country journey. But the further they go, the closer they get, and Andy realizes that they have more in common than he ever imagined.
20) Aquaman
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An action-packed adventure that reveals the origin story of half-human, half- Atlantean Arthur Curry and takes him on the journey of his lifetime, one that will not only force him to face who he really is but to discover if he is worthy of who he was born to be a king.
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