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1) Hatchet
Author
Publisher
Antheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
4) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Newbery Honor–winning survival novel Hatchet with a pocket-sized edition perfect for travelers to take along on their own adventures. This special anniversary edition includes a new introduction and commentary by author Gary Paulsen, pen-and-ink illustrations by Drew Willis, and a water resistant cover. Hatchet has also been nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Despite her parents' divorce, her father's coming out as gay, and his plans to marry his boyfriend, ten-year-old Bea is reassured by her parents' unconditional love, excited about getting a stepsister, and haunted by something she did last summer at her father's lake house.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club volume 23
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dawn enjoys her visit to California so much that she considers staying there with her father, as her brother, Jeff, has done.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.
12) Blended
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.
13) You go first
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Charlotte, twelve, and Ben, eleven, are highly-skilled competitors at online Scrabble and that connection helps both as they face family issues and the turmoil of middle school.
Author
Publisher
Roundtree Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Penny can't figure out why she is getting smaller and smaller. Her roller skates are too big. Her clothes no longer fit. And, she can no longer reach the kitchen sink or her desk at school! But, when a kind teacher notices something is wrong and shares her own experience of getting smaller, Penny discovers she is not alone, and that her parents' divorce need not be her story.
16) Summer of brave
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Lilla wants to make everyone happy, so when her best friend Vivi dares her to start telling the truth as part of their Summer of brave, Lilla hesitates because if she says out loud what she really wants, her whole life might crash down around her.
17) Dear Mr. Henshaw
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.
18) I have two homes
Author
Publisher
Clavis
Pub. Date
[c2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl named Nina recounts her feelings about her parents' divorce and describes what it is like to live in two households in this touching picture book. Everything is different from the way it was, and sometimes the behavior of the adults around her is upsetting to Nina. This honest, uncomplicated account of divorce from a child's point of view will reassure and comfort young readers who are experiencing the changes that divorce brings to a...
19) Somewhere else
Author
Publisher
Black Sugar Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Jamal cries when his best friend, Cory, moves somewhere else, but after his father moves away, too, Jamal begins to accept that "somewhere else" is okay.
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