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Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
New friends and a mystery help Aven, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.
Author
Publisher
Clarion
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.
3) Moving day
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Allie Finkle has rules for everything and is even writing her own rule book, but her world is turned upside-down when she learns that her family is moving across town, which will mean a new house, school, best friend, and plenty of new rules.
4) The new girl
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Guided by her rules, nine-year-old Allie works to get past being just the new girl at school, eagerly awaits the arrival of her kitten, and faces turmoil when her grandmother visits while the family is still settlling into their new home.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Zack Jennings moves to Connecticut with his father and new stepmother, they must deal with the ghosts left behind by a terrible accident, as well as another kind of ghost from Zack's past.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After moving to a new neighborhood, eleven-year-old Bree's long-forgotten imaginary playmate returns, to the dismay of her parents and brother, but the only other girl on the street is thirteen-year-old Cassie, whose behavior may lead to big trouble.
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Unhappy about moving from sunny California to rainy Corvallis, Oregon, and grieving over the death of her best friend, sixth-grader Iris looks for a miracle and may find one in new friend Boris.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When his family moves from Tucson, Arizona to Massachusetts, fifth-grader Ben has a hard time leaving the desert he loves, but when he finds a kindred spirit in his science teacher and ends up trying to help her with some of her problems, he finally begins to feel at home.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grader Amber Brown must make some important decisions when her mother and Max move their wedding date up and prepare to buy a house together, while her father makes some bad choices of his own.
13) Ghosts
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis--and Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, and Maya sets her heart on meeting one.
14) Full cicada moon
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race background and interest in "boyish" topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Louis, who loves baseball despite being the worst stickball player in White Plains, New York, sees his opportunity to be bat boy for the 1961 Yankees team as the perfect way to escape the problems of his father's remarriage and moving to the suburbs.
17) Dance team drama
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Right after dance camp ends, Lily Richter's mother announces that the family is moving to a new town. Separated from her best friend, and enrolled in a larger unfamiliar middle school, Lily struggles to adjust, troubled by the feeling that her new dance team does not really want her.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Moving from Iowa to a lighthouse cottage in Maine, ten-year-old Jack struggles to live up to his father's high standards and encounters a young ghost who presents Jack with a 150-year-old unsolved sea mystery.
20) Mine
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Lily moves to a creepy old house in a Florida swamp and finds out that the house isn't empty: it's packed full of the previous occupants' trash, keepsakes, and, Lily begins to suspect, maybe even their ghosts"--