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(0)Nora Raleigh Baskin
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boldly original tale about a girl who journeys through love and loss to find her mother — and discovers that everyone has a story to tell, including herself.
"I used to think that a person would not know who I was, not really know me, until they heard about my mother."
Four years, four months, and fifteen days ago, Natalie Gordon's mother walked out mid-sentence, before she finished what she was going to say. Now Natalie
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ruby Danes has a real best friend for the first time ever, but agonizes over whether or not to tell her a secret she has never shared with anyone--that her mother has been in prison since Ruby was five--and over whether to express her anger to her mother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Gabby feels that she needs a mother to help her grow into a woman, so when things between her father and his latest girlfriend do not work out, Gabby set off for the last place she remembers seeing her own mother.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old best friends and relatives, Julia and Eliza are happy to spend the summer together while Julia's mother is serving in the National Guard in Iraq but when they meet a neighborhood boy, their close relationship begins to change.
8) Almost home
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After years of being shuffled from town to town and back and forth between her divorced parents, twelve-year-old Leah, now living permanently with her father and stepmother, finds it difficult to adjust to her new situation and the circumstances that made it possible.
Author
Publisher
Square Fish/Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Jeremy "JB" Barnes is looking forward to hanging out on the beach all summer before seventh grade. But instead his mother, a scientist, has called for him to join her aboard a research ship where he'll spend his vacation seasick and bored as he strares out at the endless field of plastic objects, microbeads, and other floating debris that make up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Miles and miles away, Sidney Miller is trying to come up with an alternate...
