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21) The perfect star
Author
Series
The perfect score volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
GAVIN's days of football glory have arrived, but an accident on the home front upends his family. Ever enterprising, NATALIE anchors a morning news broadcast at school--where she's unafraid to tackle big issues. Being on the outs with his best friend sucks, but the more TREVOR tries to patch things up, the worse things get. Sidelined with a gymnastics injury, RANDI develops a bad attitude and worries that her mom's new boyfriend means changes she...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
Sixth-grader Amalia learns many important life-lessons while spending Friday afternoons with her beloved grandmother, and the teaching goes on even after Abuelita's sudden death as Amalia finds a way to connect with relatives and a friend who has moved away.
24) Henry and Bea
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Bea's best friend, Henry, seems sad and stops talking to her, she gently tries to find out what is wrong.--
25) Binny for short
Author
Series
Binny Cornwallis volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Binny struggles to cope with her father's death and the loss of her beloved dog while she adjusts to a new home that might be haunted by her horrible Aunt Violet.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After her father's landscaping business fails and the family loses their house, sixth-grader Griselda Zaragoza follows her sister's example and begins selling Alma cosmetics while hiding her changed circumstances from friends.
29) I'm Ok
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Ok, a Korean American boy, tries a get rich quick scheme of starting a hair braiding business and winning the school talent competition to hide the fact that he is struggling with the loss of his father and the financial hardships he and his mother must now bear.--
30) Eva of the Farm
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Eva writes beautiful poems on the farm in Washington State that her family has owned for generations, but when money runs out and then her baby brother gets sick, the family faces foreclosure and the way of life she loves is threatened.
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Abram and Juliette have lived down the street from each other all their lives but had no connection until Juliette's mother and Abram's father had an affair that ended in a deadly car crash, then a year later, the teens begin a tentative relationship while picking up their prescription medications.
32) Holes in the sky
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Soon after her beloved grandmother's death, Trisha's family moves to a diverse California neighborhood where she meets Stewart and his grandmother, Miss Eula, who brings people together to help a grieving neighbor.
35) Ida, always
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
A polar bear grieves over the loss of his companion, based on the real-life Gus and Ida of New York's Central Park Zoo.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Lala, Babyboy, and their parents struggle to cope with the loss of their home to Hurricane Katrina, but find joy again in the celebration of Mardi Gras. Includes facts about Hurricane Katrina and glossary.
37) Paperweight
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Seventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped. In her life. In her body. And now in an eating-disorder treatment center on the dusty outskirts of the New Mexico desert. Her dad has signed her up for sixty days of treatment. But what no one knows is that Stevie doesn't plan to stay that long. There are only twenty-seven days until the anniversary of her brother Josh's death--the death she caused. And if Stevie gets her way, there are only twenty-seven days...
38) Lost and found
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Three stories explore how we lose and find what matters most to us, as a girl finds a bright spot in a dark world, a boy leads a strange, lost being home, and a group of peaceful creatures loses its home to cruel invaders.
39) Love, Amalia
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Amalia learns many important life-lessons while spending Friday afternoons with her beloved grandmother, and the teaching goes on even after Abuelita's sudden death as Amalia finds a way to connect with relatives and a friend who has moved away.
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