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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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Alaska is no treat for a Southern California girl like Gabi, whose father moved them there after the divorce from her movie-star mother, but handsome, half-Tlingit Kai has proved to be a major compensation--but when Kai disappears, apparently seeking to find his father, whom he still believes is alive, Gabi and Hunter, Kai's twin brother, set off to find him, because it is November and winter is setting in.
22) The pick-up
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When Mari and her stepsister Sierra share a ride to a music festival with two brothers, T.J. and Tyler, Mari and T.J. are instantly attracted to each other, but Mari is only in Chicago for a weekend with her father's new family, and eventually she will have to return to her increasingly abusive mother--unless she can overcome her reservations about dating and maybe arrange to stay in Chicago permanently.
Mari doesn't believe in dating-- it can only...
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
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Since her parents' divorce, Dawn lives in Connecticut with her mother while her brother and father are in California, but after a week's vacation in sunny, healthy southern California, Dawn isn't sure she wants to return to the East Coast.
24) Comeback
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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Ria is rich, slim, pretty, popular. If you only knew her at school, you'd think she led a charmed life-and until recently you'd have been right. But her situation has taken a sudden, unfortunate change. Her parents' seemingly perfect marriage has broken up, and before she's had a chance to absorb the blow, her beloved father disappears in a plane crash. What's worse, rumors begin to surface that he may have perpetrated a multimillion-dollar investment...
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"All Cassie wants is to get some solid ground under her following the shock of her parents' divorce. So when she learns of her mom's plans to take Cass and her brother, Drew, on a four-month sailing trip from Oregon to Mexico, she's stunned. There is absolutely nothing solid about the Pacific Ocean. Cassie is furious. And nervous. It's been hard enough keeping Drew sheltered from what Cassie knows about their mother's role in breaking their family...
26) Bird Lake moon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
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Twelve-year-old Mitch and his mother are spending the summer with his grandparents at Bird Lake after his parents separate, and ten-year-old Spencer and his family have returned to the lake where Spencer's little brother drowned long ago, and as the boys become friends and spend time together, each of them begins to heal.
28) Hatchet
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Series
Brian's saga volume 1
Thorndike Press large print mini-collections
Brian Robeson volume 1
Hatchet volume 1
Thorndike Press large print mini-collections
Brian Robeson volume 1
Hatchet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Brian is on his way to Canada to visit his estranged father when the pilot of his small prop plane suffers a heart attack. Brian is forced to crash-land the plane in a lake--and finds himself stranded in the remote Canadian wilderness with only his clothing and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present before his departure.
Brian had been distraught over his parents' impending divorce and the secret he carries about his mother, but now he is truly...
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Amber Brown volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Unhappy over her parents' divorce and her mother's boyfriend Max, nine-year-old Amber finds her schoolwork suffering.
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Cupcake diaries volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
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For as long as Katie can remember, it's just been her and her mom. But that's about to change. First her mom gets a boyfriend. And then Katie gets an email from her dad, whom she's never met, saying he wants to get together. Katie's not sure she's ready for so much change in her life. With so much happening at once, Katie's counting on her friends in the Cupcake Club to help her find the sweet side of what seems like a sticky situation.
32) Family reunion
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Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
At a family reunion, Shelley comes to terms with her parents' divorce, her mother's absence, her new stepmother, and being the "stable" member of her colorful family.
33) Always my dad
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Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Although she does not get to see her father very often, a girl enjoys the time she and her brothers spend with him one summer while they are visiting their grandparents' farm.
35) Over the Edge
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Nobody knows how Peter ended up at the bottom of MacAdam's Lookout. Chloe can't figure it out, or why his mother seems to think she was his friend. Peter didn't have any friends. He was a loner, more interested in astronomy than in other people. But something - or someone - pushed him over the edge.
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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"Darika 'Rika' Lovelace is in trouble. The kind of trouble that sends her to her grandmother’s estate in Trinidad for the whole summer. But something about the island feels…different. As soon as she steps off the plane, strange things start happening! Rika meets a group of kids called Minders, who seem to have elemental powers. Even worse, she can sense jumbies lurking in the shadows. Needless to say, she wants a ticket home. But when the Minders...
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Stuntboy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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"Portico Reeves is the greatest superhero a lot of people have never heard of. He likes it that way—then no one can get in the way of him from keeping other other people safe. Super safe. He’s Stuntboy. He’s got the moves. And the saves. Except. There’s been one major fail. He couldn’t save his parents from becoming Xs. Which is a word that sounds like coughing up a hairball. But don’t talk to him about the divorce, because of the hairball...
39) Stacey's choice
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Series
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Stacey's parents are divorced, but they both depend on her. But how can she choose between them, when her mother is home sick, and her father wants her to go with him to the dinner celebrating his promotion to vice-president.
40) Knock out
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Told in assonant free verse, Levi was once a premature baby who suffered from respiratory problems; he recovered, and now in seventh grade, he struggles to demonstrate to his divorced mother and overprotective brother that he is okay--so when his father suggests he take up boxing he falls in love with the sport, but he still must find a way to convince his family to set him free to follow his dream.