Alison McGhee
Author
Pub. Date
1/16/19
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this novel with 100 chapters of 100 words each, sixteen-year-old Will is trying to cope with his dad's suicide three years ago. Most days he works at a discount store, tries to make his father's famous cornbread recipe, and wanders the streets of Los Angeles. He begins to come out of his sadness when he starts leaving small gifts for the people he sees every day. This act transforms Will and everyone around him.
6) Someday
Author
Description
A mother reflects on the all the milestones, from walking in a deep wood to holding someone else's hand, that her child will achieve during life.
7) Shadow baby
Author
Description
Eleven-year-old Clara struggles to find the truth about her missing father, grandfather, and her dead twin sister in this journey of discovery about friendship, families and communication.
12) Snap: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Eleven-year-old Edwina confronts old and new challenges when her longtime best friend Sally faces the inevitable death of the grandmother who raised her.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
When Clara Winter left her rural Adirondack town for college, she never looked back. Her mother, Tamar, a fiercely independent but loving woman who raised Clara on her own, all but pushed her out the door, forcing Clara to build a new life for herself, far from her roots, far from her high school boyfriend, far from the life she had always known. Now more than a decade has passed, and Clara, a successful writer, has been summoned home. Tamar has become...
15) Pablo & Birdy
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Pablo, nearly ten, has many questions about his origins and how he arrived at Isla as a baby, but finding the answers may mean losing his lifetime companion, Birdy the parrot.
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Until recently, William T. Jones was the happiest man in upstate New York with a long-standing marriage, a fine, spirited grown son, and ownership of the farm in the north woods where his family had lived for generations. But in the past year his life has become almost unrecognizable to him. He watched, powerless, while his musically gifted twenty-seven-year-old son, William J., lost first his hearing and then his life. He has begun to wonder whether...
17) Bink & Gollie
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Two roller-skating best friends--one tiny, one tall--share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"The state fair is in town, and now Bink and Gollie-utter opposites and best friends extraordinaire-must use teamwork and their gray matter while navigating its many wonders. Will the energetic Bink win the world's largest donut in the Whack-a-Duck game? Will the artistic Gollie wow the crowd in the talent show? As the undaunted duo steps into the mysterious tent of fortune-teller Madame Prunely, one prediction is crystal clear: this unlikely pair...