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1) Honey
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When she suspects that her father has a girlfriend, Melody and her best friend are determined to figure out who it is and why it is a secret.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Lucy, with her mother and her photographer father, has just moved to a small rural community in New Hampshire, and with her new friend Nate she plans to spend the summer taking photos for a contest, but pictures sometimes reveal more than people are willing to see.
4) Flyaway
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
While her father is in the hospital, thirteen-year-old Isla befriends Harry, the first boy to understand her love of the outdoors, and as Harry's health fails, Isla tries to help both him and the lone swan they see, struggling to fly, on the lake outside Harry's window.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
"Amelia Albright dreams about going to Florida for spring break like everyone else in her class, but her father--a cranky and stubborn English professor--has decided Florida is too much adventure. Now Amelia is stuck at home with him and her babysitter, the beloved Mrs. O'Brien. The week ahead promises to be boring, until Amelia meets Casey at her neighborhood art studio. Amelia has never been friends with a boy before, and the experience is both...
7) Hold fast
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
On a cold winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother have been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless--and it is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Soon after their mother's sudden death in San Diego, Liberty, twelve, and Billie, eight, are abandoned at an Arizona gas station by the father they barely know and Liberty must find a way to keep them together and safe until either Dad returns or they can contact Julie, their mother's best friend.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father--but no one will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he's working on a top secret government program.
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Fox Street means everything to Mo Wren, who is nearly eleven, and so she is very upset when a land developer offers to buy her father's house, especially since she has not yet found the fox she is sure lives in the nearby ravine.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Selkie Bay is a place where the old legends seem very near, and eleven-year-old Cordelia believes that her secretive mother is a selkie who has returned to the sea--a belief that offers some hope as she struggles to care for her two younger sisters and help her scientist father makes ends meet in their home by the sea.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Massachusetts thirteen-year-old Clare, grieving after her mother's recent death, reluctantly travels with her father to spend nine weeks in a remote village in Malawi, where new friends and experiences help open her mind and heart.
13) Truth or dare
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
15) Rebound time
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Twin girls Sarit and Allie have always been coached in basketball by their father, but now that their parents are divorced and he has moved away, Sarit is unhappy playing on the school team, and resentful that her sister still enjoys the game.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Since her mother died, twelve-year-old Lily has struggled to care for her severely autistic half-brother, Adam, in their Miami home, but she is frustrated and angry because her oncologist step-father, Don, expects her to devote her time to Adam, and is unwilling to admit that Adam needs professional help--but when Adam bonds with a young dolphin with cancer Lily is confronted with another dilemma: her family or the dolphin's freedom.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Harassed at her middle school, not taken seriously at home, and with a "perfect" older brother, Matthew, to live up to, thirteen-year-old Claire has always felt like her life was cursed--then one morning, when she are her beloved father are talking at breakfast, her father suddenly falls over with a stroke, and suddenly everything changes.
19) Omega City
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Determined to prove her conspiracy theorist father's beliefs about lost Cold War technology, Gillian, her skeptical brother, and their friends journey to the ruins of a vast doomsday bunker before they are confronted by dangerous adversaries.
Author
Series
Zoe Washington volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--
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