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3) 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.
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 3
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Joey tries to keep his life from degenerating into total chaos when his mother sends him to be home-schooled with a hostile blind girl, his divorced parents cannot stop fighting, and his grandmother is dying of emphysema.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Whit's zookeeper parents have rarely allowed him to go outside of the Alabama zoo they run, but he stops seeing it as such a cage when he meets "Bird Girl, for whom the place is a refuge from problems at home.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.
10) Lucky few
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Homeschooler Stevie Hart meets Max, a strange boy who is obsessed with death, but what starts off as fun together begins spiraling downward when Stevie's diabetes sabotages her fumbling romance with Max, and her best friend, Sanger, announces she is moving out of state.
11) Devoted: a novel
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Rachel Walker is devoted to God and her large family, but as her curiosity about the world her parents turned from grows and she finds that neither Calvary Christian Church nor her homeschool education has the answer she craves, she considers leaving her sheltered life, as an older sister did.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
On the last night of summer, Emma and her Maine game warden father rescue a small domestic rabbit stuck in a fence; the very next day Emma starts fifth grade after years of being home schooled, excited and apprehensive about making new friends, but she is paired with Jack, a hyperactive boy, who does not seem to fit in with anyone--except that they share a love of animals, which draws them together, because of the rabbit.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After a lifetime of being homeschooled, Ham Hudson is hoping that a new year in a new school will help make him a whole new Ham. Instead, he’s saddled with an archnemesis to avoid, a confusing and exhausting social sphere to navigate, and a whole host of insecurities to add to his old ones. But then Ham meets Micah. Sympathetic and effortlessly cool, Micah quickly becomes a lifeline in a strange world. Ham wants Micah to think he belongs—to want...
14) A shot at normal
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A timely young adult novel about a teenage girl who sues her anti-vaccination parents after she contracts a disease that incurs devastating consequences.
After contracting measles with devastating consequences, sixteen-year-old Juniper Jade sues her anti-vaccination parents, hoping she can have a more normal life.
The Jade family lives an all-organic homeschool lifestyle that means no plastics, no cell phones, and no vaccines. She doesn't agree...
Author
Series
Publisher
Maeva Ediciones
Pub. Date
[2019?]
Language
Español
Description
Eleven-year-old Impy has always felt at home at the Renaissance Faire where her parents work. She starts middle school in the fall. She will soon learn that it's not so easy to spot heroes and villains in the real world like it is at the festival. How will she find her place and make new friends in this strange, new environment?
16) Qué asco de día
Author
Series
Misadventures of Max Crumbly volume 1
Publisher
Destino
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Max is about to face the scariest place he's ever been -- South Ridge Middle School! He has been home-schooled by his grandmother until now, and he's begged his parents to finally let him start attending public middle school. He's starting to question that choice, though, with the Thomas Silver Problem. As in, Thomas Silver keeps stuffing Max in his locker. If only Max could be like the hero in all the comics he likes to read -- or the ones he draws...
17) Schooled
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television, tasted a pizza, or even heard of a wedgie. But when his grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a guidance counselor and attend the local middle school. While Cap knows a lot about tie-dyeing and Zen Buddhism, no education could prepare him for the politics of public school.
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