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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Irene helps in her grandfather's plant nursery, makes new friends, and begins to learn what she really wants and needs after her father, having lost his job as an investment banker, moves her and her mother to his father's farmhouse upstate.
3) Rope burn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While working on a writing assignment at his new school, Richard learns the meaning of various proverbs and how to express his feelings about his parents' divorce.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jo O'Connor, accustomed to moving from place to place with her father, has learned not to get too close to people, but that changes in her senior year when she makes a best friend and falls in love--which only complicates matters when she is forced to move again.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her sister, star-athlete Jakarta, finally joins them, Dakar feels much safer and happier in Cottonwood, North Dakota, where she and their parents are living for a year, but she still longs for their home in Africa.
Author
Series
Otis Dooda volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everyday, nine-year-old Otis Dooda confronts a series of zany changes when his father's new job prompts the family's move to a New York City apartment, where Otis is cursed by a guy in a potted plant in their apartment building lobby and has to team up with a new friend and a gassy miniature horse to break the curse.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beatrice More's room is perfectly organized even though her family has just moved to their new house and she doesn't understand why the rest of her family isn't unpacking and organizing as quickly. However, she learns to accept that not everything has to be orderly to have fun when her new friends from school come over.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Corinne Corcoran's father loses his job, she is forced to give up her privileged Manhattan lifestyle and move to Broken Spoke, Texas, where she discovers that life is more than shopping sprees and country clubs.
10) Totally psychic
Author
Language
English
Description
"Paloma Ferrer is psychic. In fact, everyone in her family line has "the gift." Now that Paloma has come into her powers, she dreams of becoming a famous medium to celebrities, just like her beloved grandma. When Paloma's parents move them from Miami to Los Angeles, she hatches a plan to get her career as a medium up and running. But when a reading gone awry leaves Paloma in a sticky situation with a new friend, she'll need more than a crystal ball...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Sadie promises that she will always be Wilma's best friend when their families leaves drought-stricken Missouri in 1933, but once in Texas, Sadie learns that she must try to make a new home--and new friends, too.
13) Dear Poppy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Poppy moves to the family farm to escape memories of her late mother, she uncovers a stack of letters from 1985 addressed to herself written by her mother, and Poppy believes she has finally discovered the best friend she has been looking for.
14) First rain
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Abby moves with her family to Israel, where it does not rain all summer, she misses her grandmother and remembers the fun they used to have splashing in puddles together.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tess Goodwin's life in rural Iowa is sheltered and uncomplicated. Although she chooses to spend most of her free time playing chess with her best friend Zander, the farm-boy from next door, her skills as a bovine midwife and tractor mechanic ensure that she fits in with the other kids at East Chester High. But when her veteran father reenlists in the Army, moving her family halfway across the country to North Carolina, Tess is forced out of her comfort...
17) Lovetorn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having just moved from India to Los Angeles for two years, sixteen-year-old Shalini struggles to fit in at school and to keep house for her clinically-depressed mother, but the real challenge comes when she begins falling in love with an American boy despite being engaged since the age of three. Includes glossary.
18) Fresh princess
Author
Series
Fresh Princess volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Destiny, the Fresh Princess, moves to a new neighborhood, she must be courageous as she makes new friends.
19) Avenging the owl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Uprooted to Oregon where he befriends a boy with Down Syndrome, Solo Hahn--named in honor of the Star Wars action hero--must perform eight months of community service at the local raptor center and uses his screenwriting passion to convey his feelings about his father's attempted suicide.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1967 Tanzania, when President Nyerere urges his people to work together as one extended family, the people of Litongo move to a new village which, to some, seems cursed, but where thirteen-year-old Shida, a healer, and her female cousins are allowed to attend school. Includes glossary and author's note.
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