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"When Annie Brown, a fun-loving woman, suddenly dies, her husband, best friend, and her children all struggle to find ways to go on after the loss of the woman who was the center of their lives, and who made life happy, fun, and secure. Her husband is overwhelmed with four children to raise, and turns to his teenage daughter for help, and to an old girlfriend for solace. Annie's best friend struggles again with opioid addiction, having depended on...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Co-quí, co-quí! The coquí frogs sing to Elena from her family's beloved mango tree--their calls so familiar that they might as well be singing, "You are home, you are safe." But home is suddenly not safe when a hurricane threatens to destroy everything that Elena knows"--
5) Shelter
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While ten-year-old Maya attends an elite private school on scholarship her classmates are unaware that she and her family are living in a homeless shelter, but on one poignant day Maya discovers having a house is not the only way to have a home.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, andthe founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities."--|cProvided by publisher.
7) Furia
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan, a rising soccer star in Rosario, Argentina, dreams of playing professionally, in defiance of her fathers' wishes and at the risk of her budding romance with Diego.
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Language
English
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From New York Times bestselling Joanna Ho, of Eyes that Kiss in the Corners, and award-winning educator Liz Kleinrock comes a powerful companion picture book about adoption and family. A young girl who is a transracial adoptee learns to love her Asian eyes and finds familial connection and meaning through them, even though they look different from her parents'. Her family bond is deep and their connection is filled with love. She wonders about her...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After their two-week family tour of Los Angeles, ten-year-old Feng Li Lin and her older brother and sister learn they'll remain in California while their parents return to Taiwan, forcing them to navigate a new school, a new language, bullies, racism, and the pressures of running a household.
10) Don't forget
Author
Publisher
Kane Miller, a Division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A narrator reminds children of all the things that make us human, from kindness to sadness, from hugging to solitude, and the need to be loved and belong.
12) Finally seen
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Lina Gao leaves China to live with her parents and sister, after five years apart, she must reckon with her hurt, anger, and curiosity and find a way to get her bearings in this new country--and the almost-new family that comes along with it.
13) Lo and behold
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"With her life recently turned upside down, 12-year-old Addie is uncomfortable in her own skin until the world of virtual reality sparks her imagination and leads to an exciting new project, a new friend, and to reconnecting with who she's always been"--
16) K is in trouble
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"K tries to get through his days, but is beset by talking fish, absurd adults, flocks of destructive crows, and detention"--
17) Nigeria Jones
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,|c[2023]
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"A sixteen-year-old girl whose father is the leader of a Black liberation group discovers her own place in the world"--|cProvided by publisher.
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