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Author
Series
Ramona Quimby volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.
2) King Lear
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
3) The tempest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This book presents a historical overview of The Tempest in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading directors - Peter Brook, Sam Mendes and Rupert Goold - so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible, a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after...
Author
Series
Zoe Washington stories volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--
Author
Series
Coyote Sunrise volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Coyote and her father rush to Poplin Springs, Washington, in their old school bus save a memory box buried in a park that will soon be demolished.
7) Honey
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
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
Three rancheros volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.
Author
Series
Zoe Washington stories volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows fourteen-year-old Zoe and her recently exonerated father as they build their new relationship and work to open a restaurant together.
10) The giant-slayer
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When her eight-year-old neighbor is stricken with polio in 1955, eleven-year-old Laurie discovers that there is power in her imagination as she weaves a story during her visits with him and other patients confined to iron lung machines.
Author
Series
Pax volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
It has been a year since newly orphaned Peter and his pet fox Pax, now a protective father, have seen each other, but their paths cross again when Pax's kit falls desperately ill forcing him to turn to the one human he knows he can trust.
12) One jar of magic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rose Alice Anders is Little Luck. Lucky to be born into the Anders family. Lucky to be just as special and magical as the most revered man in town--her father. The whole town has been waiting for Rose to turn twelve, when she can join them in their annual capturing of magic on New Year's Day and become the person she was born to be. But when that special day finally comes, Rose barely captures one tiny jar of magic. Now Rose's dad won't talk to her...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the last day of fifth grade, super-smart eleven-year-old Ginny learns that her father, who is a military ER doctor, is being deployed to Afghanistan, devastating news because they are already moving to another post in Maryland and Ginny depends on her father to help her manage her obsessions, panic attacks and general meltdowns; one of her obsessions is geographical facts, and somehow Ginny hopes to use her geographical knowledge to overcome her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Because she is now over six feet tall everybody expects Juniper to be good at basketball, especially her demanding coach (who also happens to be her father)--but she is not sure that she even likes basketball, and she definitely does not like the pressure that she feels when she misses a shot and her father benches her.
Author
Series
Paola Santiago volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Months after confronting the legendary La Llorona, Paola starts dreaming again, this time about fantasmas that are stalking her and someone who might be even more dangerous--her estranged father.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Coral is excited to be going on an October elk hunt with her father in the Colorado mountains, but when he announces that he is getting remarried she is upset and angry with him--but when a big storm rolls in and her father is injured by his skittish horse she has to put aside her feelings and fears and concentrate on making it down the mountain safely.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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) Prairie lotus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Dakota Territory in the 1880s, half-Chinese Hanna and her white father face racism and resistance to change as they try to make a home for themselves. Includes author's note.
20) Boomi's boombox
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Boomi accidentally travels back in time to 1986 Thumpton-on-Soar, England, where she meets her late father as a child, changing her life forever.
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