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3) Superfudge
Author
Series
Fudge volume 3
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
c1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother, Fudge.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Life is meant to be savored, but that's not easy with no family, limited prospects and a past you'd rather not talk about. Still, Callie Smith doesn't know how to feel when she discovers she has a brother and a sister - Malcolm, who grew up with affection, wealth and privilege, and Keira, a streetwise twelve-year-old. Callie doesn't love being alone, but at least it's safe. Despite her trepidation, she moves into the grand family home with her siblings...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived...
7) The nest
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
"Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Tormented by her guilt and classmate's taunts since she accidentally set a lethal fire as a child, Cassidy is implicated in her worst bully's murder and must find the killer before someone else dies.
10) Jake and Lily
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Jake and Lily are twins and have always felt the same--like two halves of one person--but the year they turn eleven and Jake begins hanging out with Bump Stubbins, everything changes
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Young Mollie traverses eerie, perilous lands to retrieve her baby brother, Thomas, from the Kinde Folke, malicious sprites who snatched him and left a hideous changeling in his place.
14) Savvy
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Newbery honor book: 2009.
Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
18) Me too!
Author
Series
Publisher
Golden Press
Pub. Date
c1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sharing with one's little sister can be an awful bother, but it has its rewards too.
19) Starters
Author
Series
Starters volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
To support herself and her younger brother in a world decimated by a viral outbreak , sixteen-year-old Callie hires her body out to seniors who want to experience being young again, and she lives a fairy-tale life until she learns that her body will commit murder, unless her mind can stop it.
20) The sorceress
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
While armies of the Shadowrealms gather and Machiavelli goes to Alcatraz to kill Perenelle Flamel, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman accompany the Alchemist to England to seek Gilgamesh.