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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Carl is fed up with his father's single-minded pursuit of an off-the-grid existence. His dad may be brilliant, but dumpster-diving for food, scouring through trash for salvageable junk, and wearing clothes fully sourced from garage sales is getting old. Increasingly worried about what schoolmates and a certain girl at his new school might think of his circumstances--and encouraged by his off-kilter best friend--Carl adopts the principles...
Author
Series
Tillerman cycle volume 3rd
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003, 1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Jeff's mother, who deserted the family years before, reenters his life and widens the gap between Jeff and his father, a gap that only truth, love, and friendship can heal.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Garvey's father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading--anything but sports. Feeling like a failure, he comforts himself with food. Garvey is kind, funny, smart, a loyal friend, and he is also overweight, teased by bullies, and lonely. When his only friend encourages him to join the school chorus, Garvey's life changes. The chorus finds a new soloist in Garvey, and through chorus,...
7) Stormchaser
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In his continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission to collect the powerful stromphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.
Author
Series
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Gifts from Gwyn's grandmother on his ninth birthday open up a whole new world to him, as he discovers he has magical powers that help him heal the breach with his father that has existed ever since his sister's mysterious disappearance four years before.
10) The lost lake
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young boy and his father become closer friends during a camping trip in the mountains.
11) Squirm
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Billy Dickens discovers that his mysterious father lives in Montana, so this summer Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, and save his own father.
12) The crossover
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
13) Will's choice
Author
Series
Orphan train adventures volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Sent away on an orphan train by his self-centered father, Jesse, Will keeps hoping Jesse will return to claim him, even though the people he lives with care for him far more.
16) Onion John
Author
Series
Publisher
Crowell
Pub. Date
1959
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father.
17) The spying game
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After his father is killed in a traffic accident, twelve-year-old Joe Harris becomes obsessed with punishing the man he thinks is responsible, but his plan gets out of control when he discovers that the man's son is a classmate.
18) Dark sons
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In this winner of the Coretta Scott King Honor, bestselling and award-winning author Nikki Grimes uses free-verse poetry to powerfully tell the story of two boys, living in different times and lands, who both struggle with their faith as they watch their families fall apart. Sam's father was always a strong Christian, and so when his dad leaves Sam and his mom for another woman, and then announces his new wife is pregnant, Sam feels abandoned-even...
19) Honestly Elliott
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Struggling with ADHD, loneliness, and connecting with his divorced father who would rather see him embrace sports instead of cooking, sixth-grader Elliott finds an unlikely friend in popular, perfect Maribel when the two are paired in a school-wide contest.
20) Thunder rising
Author
Series
Warriors dawn of the clans volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"The cats from the mountains completed their journey and have settled in the forest at the end of the sun trail. But tensions have reached a breaking point--and a young cat named Thunder is caught helplessly in the middle"--
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