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Series
Three rancheros volume 1
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.
2) Harbor me
Author
Language
English
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Description
"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--
Author
Series
Middle school (James Patterson) volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After surviving sixth grade, Rafe expects seventh grade to be a fun zone because he has been accepted to art school in the big city, but when he discovers it is more competitive than he expected, he sets out to turn his boring life into the inspiration for a work of art.
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. By now, she figures, it's not running away. It's leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn't...
5) Sunny
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Sunny, the Defenders' best runner, only runs for his father, who blames Sunny for his mother's death, but with his coach's help Sunny finds a way to combine track and field with his true passion, dancing.
7) Middletown
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Eli likes baggy clothes, baseball caps, and one girl in particular. Her seventeen-year-old sister Anna is more traditionally feminine; she loves boys and staying out late. They are sisters ... Their dad has long been out of the picture, and their mom lives at the mercy of her next drink. When their mom lands herself in enforced rehab, Anna and Eli are left to fend for themselves. Eli and Anna have each gotten used to telling lies...
8) Crunch
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
The oldest Mariss brother, fourteen-year-old Dewey, attempts to be the "embodiment of responsibility" as he juggles the management of the family's bicycle repair business while sharing the household and farm duties with his siblings after a sudden energy crisis strands their parents far from home.
Author
Series
Middle school (James Patterson) volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Rafe Kane enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.
Author
Language
English
Description
Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
12) Towers falling
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"While learning about September 11th, fifth grader Dèja (born after the attacks) realizes how much the events still color her world"--
Author
Series
Adventures of Beanboy volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Wheaton, Kansas seventh-grader Tucker MacBean loves comic books, so when his favorite comic has a contest to create a sidekick, he is hopeful that he can win, thereby fixing his struggling family.
14) One last shot
Author
Language
English
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Description
For as long as he can remember, Malcolm has never felt like he was good enough. Not for his parents, who have always seemed at odds with each other, with Malcolm caught in between. And especially not for his dad, whose competitive drive and love for sports Malcolm has never shared. That is, until Malcolm discovers miniature golf, the one sport he actually enjoys. Maybe it's the way in which every hole is a puzzle to be solved. Or the whimsy of the...
15) White fur flying
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A sad and silent nine-year-old boy finds his voice when he moves next to a family that rescues dogs.
17) Finding Fortune
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Angry with her mother, twelve-year-old runaway Ren finds an unusual boarding house in a nearby ghost town, Fortune, where she meets some interesting people and learns of a forgotten treasure from when the town was famous for buttons made of Mississippi River shells."
19) Paper chains
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Ana attempts to hold her family together after her father's departure while her best friend, Katie, begins wondering about her birth parents, and the two must work through the tangles of their secrets before it tears them apart.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Forced to move into a haunted concert hall with her distant father, "The Maestro," and aging grandmother, Nonna, twelve-year-old Olivia and classmate Henry try to lay to rest ghosts tied to the Hall's past before time and money run out.
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