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"Lola and Momma have always been a team of two. It hasn't always been easy for Lola, being one of the only kids she knows with just one parent around. And lately she's been feeling incomplete, like there's a part of herself that she can't know until she knows her dad. But what will happen--to Lola, to Momma, to their team of two--if she finds him?"--Goodreads.com.
2) Level 13
Author
Series
Slacker volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Dedicated slacker Cameron Boxer thinks he has found gamer heaven: playing video games online for an audience (and money); but the Positive Action Group (the club he created to keep his parents off his back) keeps getting in the way with meetings and fund-raisers for worthy causes, and his friends keep turning to him for plans and girlfriend advice, plus Elvis the beaver is back chewing on the back wall--and all Cameron wants to do is to conquer the...
3) Focused
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Clea wants to do her homework, follow instructions, pay attention in school, and play chess on the school team, but somehow she cannot focus on whatever is in front of her, and the other kids at school are starting to notice and make fun of her; when her worried parents take her to be tested she finds out that she has ADHD (only without the hyperactivity)--and with help from the psychiatrist who seems to really understand her she is...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
In this modern version of Beauty and the Beast, unhappy fifteen-year-old Carlo has been living in the basement of his family's mansion ever since his father died--until beautiful fifteen-year-old Belle shows up to pay for the rose her father picked in the garden.
5) Just Jazz
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Artistic Jasmine "Jazz" Fletcher tries to find a way to convince her skeptical parents that art for her is not just an expensive hobby but an important part of life.
Author
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Marley is comfortable with being gay in Winston-Salem, but he never had any real passions until he met Christopher, son of a bigoted television evangelist; the two become an inseparable couple until Christopher's parents send him to a religious program intended to "cure" him of being gay, and outraged Marley tells a very big lie--and then has to deal with the repercussions.
9) The handbook
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack likes to trash-pick, and when his elderly neighbors move out and leave a promising pile of refuse outside, he finds a box that holds the Secret Parent's Handbook that lets him and his friends make the rules at home for a change.
13) Me and my mama
Author
Language
English
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Description
In rhyming text, a young child reflects on the many reasons they love their mom.
14) Sitting shiva
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this gorgeously illustrated, deeply moving picture book, a young girl learns about the practice of sitting shiva after her mother dies."--
16) Forever or a day
Author
Lexile measure
AD 570L
Language
English
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Description
The narrator muses on the nature and trickiness of time, and how too often it passes far too quickly, robbing this parent of the minutes and hours spent with their child.
Author
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
My name is Julia. This is the story of the summer I almost lost my mum, and found a shark older than trees. Don't worry though, that doesn't spoil the ending.
Ten-year-old Julia loves the mysteries of the ocean, just like her scientists mother. Her family is spending the summer on a remote island where her mom is searching for the elusive Greenland shark, a creature that might be older than the trees, and so rare that it's only been seen a few times....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth-grader Emme Remmers feels that as an only child she has to be the peace-maker for her parents rapidly deteriorating marriage, and she could use some help--so the new bakery, Daisy's Desserts, where everything is baked with love, may offer the perfect solution for the dinner she is planning for her parents' anniversary.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Quijana is a biracial girl, desperately trying to understand the changes that are going on in her life; her mother rarely gets home before bedtime, her father suddenly seems to be trying to get in touch with his Guatemalan roots (even though he never bothered to teach Quijana Spanish), she is about to start seventh grade in the Texas town where they live and she is worried about fitting in--and Quijana suspects that her parents are...
20) Magisterium
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
In the twenty-second century, Glennora Morgan's father has been working on a project that will allow him to penetrate the Rift border and retrieve Glennora's mother. But now that he has succeeded, the Authority is suddenly trying to kill them both. Glennora and her friend Kevin must flee into the Magisterium to escape them.
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