Susan Richards Shreve
Author
Language
English
Description
It is 1973 and Watergate is on everyone's lips. Lucy Painter is a children's book illustrator and a single mother of two. She leaves New York and the married father of her children to live in a tightly knit Washington neighborhood in the house where she grew up and where she discovered her father's suicide. Lucy hopes for a fresh start, but her life is full of secrets: her children know nothing of her father's death or the identity of their own father....
Author
Language
English
Description
A thrilling and richly drawn family drama about a daughter's quest to understand her mother's mysterious death.
On the morning of her seventieth birthday, Georgianna Grove receives an unexpected letter that calls her back to Missing Lake, Wisconsin, where her mother was murdered sixty-six years earlier. Georgie's father had confessed to the murder the next morning and was carted off to a state penitentiary. Haunted by the night that took both her...
5) Blister
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When a family tragedy occurs, ten-year-old Alyssa "Blister" Reed changes schools, moves to an apartment with her depressed mother while her father gets his own place, and tries to believe her grandmother, who tells her she is "elastic" and can handle it all.
6) Wait for me
Author
Publisher
Tambourine Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
As she begins fifth grade, Molly feels left behind by her older sisters and brother and neglected by her former best friends.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jess O'Fines is resentful that she is expected to watch her baby niece in a Los Angeles hotel room while the rest of her dysfunctional family go off to a wedding rehearsal party -- but when Baby Ruby disappears, Jess is convinced she knows who kidnapped her and determined to get her back on her own, whatever the danger.
Author
Publisher
A.A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Confused by all of the males in her life, thirteen-year-old Alyssa "Blister" Reed wants to help when her best friend Jonah's quest for popularity lands him in deep trouble, but his desire to make her his girlfriend gets in the way.
9) The goalie
Author
Publisher
Tambourine Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Julie MacNeil feels threatened both in the family and on the soccer field when her widower father begins to date the mother of her arch-rival Benji True.
10) The lovely shoes
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1950s Ohio, ninth-grader Franny feels isolated and self-conscious at high school because of her deformed leg and feet, but her irrepressibly high-spirited mother is determined to find shoes for Franny to wear at the school dances.
11) Trout and me
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Ben's troubles at school get progressively worse when he starts hanging around Trout, a new boy in his fifth grade class, who is also labeled as learning disabled.
12) Jonah, the whale
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After moving to a new town, Jonah, an eleven-year-old with a big imagination, reinvents himself as a talk show host, hoping this will somehow bring his absent father back.