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Twelve-year-old Treasure Daniels and her younger sister must move in with Great-aunt Grace until their mother sorts herself out, but life in Black Lake, Virginia, where segregation lingers, is hard and Grace is a nightmare--at least on the surface.
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English
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Alder has always lived in his cozy little house in Southern California. An old, reliable, comforting walnut tree has stood between his house and the one next door. When a new family--with a particularly annoying girl his age named Oak--moves into the neighboring house, they cut the tree down. As Oak and Alder start school together, they can't imagine ever becoming friends. But they soon discover a series of mysterious, possibly magical, connections...
23) The terrible two
Author
Series
Terrible two volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Miles Murphy is not happy to be moving to Yawnee Valley, a sleepy town that's famous for one thing and one thing only: cows. In his old school, everyone knew him as the town's best prankster, but Miles quickly discovers that Yawnee Valley already has a prankster, and a great one. If Miles is going to take the title from this mystery kid, he is going to have to raise his game. It's prankster against prankster in an epic war of trickery, until the two...
24) Unearthly
Author
Series
Unearthly trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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In the beginning, there's a boy standing in the trees . . . .
Clara Gardner has recently learned that she's part angel. Having angel blood run through her veins not only makes her smarter, stronger, and faster than humans (a word, she realizes, that no longer applies to her), but it means she has a purpose, something she was put on this earth to do. Figuring out what that is, though, isn't easy.
Her visions of a raging forest fire
...25) Anastasia again!
Author
Series
Anastasia Krupnik volume 2
Language
English
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Anastasia is hesitant to accept new surroundings when her family moves, but she soon learns moving means not only saying good-bye, but also making new friends.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
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Evelyn Del Rey es la mejor amiga de Daniela. Hacen todo juntas e incluso viven una al frente de la otra en la misma calle en apartamentos que son casi iguales: Daniela con su mami y su hámster, y Evelyn con su mami, su papi y su gato. Pero no después de hoy--no después de que Evelyn se mudé de su casa. Mientras tanto, las niñas juegan entre las cajas de mudanza hasta la hora de despedirse, y se prometen mantenerse en contacto, pues saben que...
27) Neighbors
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Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Lying in bed, a child reflects on her new apartment, and the neighbors living around and above her, and looks forward to meeting them and her new classmates.
28) Thresholds
Author
Series
Magic next door volume 1
Language
English
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When she and her family move to Oregon, Maya discovers that the kids in a nearby apartment building perform magic and use portals to visit other worlds, a situation that is complicated by Maya's efforts to safeguard an alien.
29) Gibberish
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Publisher
Levine Querido
Language
English
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2022 Graded Reading Lists: Grades K & 1
Back-to-School Picture Books: 2022
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Three, Four Tell Me More: Let’s Be Friends and First Day of School
Back-to-School Picture Books: 2022
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Three, Four Tell Me More: Let’s Be Friends and First Day of School
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When Dat starts school in a country where he does not speak the language, everything around him sounds like gibberish until a new friend helps him make sense of his new world.
30) Number one kid
Author
Series
Zigzag kids volume 1
Language
English
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When Mitchell's father gets a new job and his family moves, he and his sister go to a new school where they must make new friends and adjust to new routines.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
Cooper Cub hops on his scooter and travels through town, gathering his friends to welcome the new family moving into town, but what will the newcomers be like and what kind of changes will they bring to Cubby Hill?
32) I am number four
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Series
Lorien Legacies volume 1
Language
English
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In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
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"When Miguel and his parents move from Puerto Rico to the U.S. mainland, Miguel misses their home, his grandparents, and his pet frog, Coquí, but he soon realizes that New York City has more in common with back home than he originally thought"--
35) The blue house
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
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Description
Both Leo and his father are angry and sad when their landlord says their old house will be torn down, but soon they find a way to make their new house feel like home.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When Ren moves to Ava's city, he feels lost without the green and magic of his home, but not everything in the city is what meets the eye and Ren discovers that nothing makes you feel at home quite like a friend"--
Author
Series
Rules volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
High school student "Meg" has changed identities so often that she hardly knows who she is anymore, and her family is falling apart, but she knows that two of the rules of witness protection are be forgettable and do not make friends--but in her new home in Louisiana a boy named Ethan is making that difficult.
40) Moving house!
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When Joey and Chloe and their family are getting ready to move, their house decides it wants to go too.
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