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1) Icy Sparks
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Description
At the age of ten, an Appalachian girl develops croaks, jerks and spasms, which leads to her explusion from school. After treatment--she has Tourette's syndrome--she learns to control herself, attends college and there is a happy ending.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Description
After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.
Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: when her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. When she travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time, Leigh is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
"Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's a Fractional Persian -- half, his mom's side -- and his first ever trip to Iran is about to change his life. Darius has never really fit in at home, and he's sure...
Author
Publisher
Elephant Rock Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Competitive climber Cara Jenkins feels most at home high off the ground, clinging to a rock wall by her fingertips. She's enjoyed a roaming life with her mountaineering parents, making the natural world her jungle gym, the writings of Annie Dillard and Henry David Thoreau her textbooks. But when tragedy strikes on an Ecuadorian mountaintop, Cara's nomadic lifestyle comes to an abrupt halt. Starting over at her grandparents' home in suburban Detroit,...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"After the sudden death of her mother, Sasha moves in with her grandparents and realizes new truths about herself"--
Southern California. With her mother now dead and father out of the picture, Sasha Bloom moves in with her estranged grandparents. Sasha has no idea who she is anymore. Luckily, her grandparents are certain they know who she should be: A lawyer in the making. Ten pounds skinnier. In a socially advantageous relationship with a boy from...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Upon their father's death, Tess and her younger brother, Axel, leave New York for their grandparents' home in Finland, where they learn that a bear they both saw is the spirit of their mother, the strange man with her is the keeper of souls, and he wants Axel, already plagued with the disease that killed their mother, to replace him.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury YA
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After the death of their mother, thirteen-year-old Serenity Evans and her younger brother go to live with their grandparents, who try to keep them safe from bad influences and help them come to terms with what has happened to their family. Includes recipe for red velvet cake.
8) Hey, kiddo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
"In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Christine takes their first solo trip to Mexico to spend a few weeks with their grandparents and tía. Initially, Christine struggles to connect with their relatives because they don't share a language. Seeing the places their mom grew up--the school she went to, the café where she had her first date with Christine's father--Christine becomes more and more aware of the generational differences in their family. Soon Christine settles...
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