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Author
Series
Publisher
Western Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 520L
Language
English
Description
Mercer Mayer's popular Little Critter enjoys a special day in the city with his mother. Little Critter means well, but he gets himself in trouble all along the way. His mother is oh so patient when Critter loses the train tickets, picks up a dinosaur egg in the natural history museum, and misbehaves at lunch. In spite of his difficulties, Little Critter falls asleep happily on the train going home, exhausted from the big outing with his mother.
22) The talisman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 42
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America--and into another realm.
23) The Kissing hand
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Language
English
Description
When Chester the raccoon is reluctant to go to kindergarten for the first time, his mother teaches him a secret way to carry her love with him.
25) House rules
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
With Asperger's syndrome, teenager Jacob Hunt is unable to have the same kind of social life other boys his age have. However, like other kids with AS, he has homed in on one particular interest: forensic analysis. He normally shows up to crime scenes and helps solve the case, but this time he is the prime suspect. When a murder leads police to question Jacob, they interpret his AS symptoms as a sign of guilt and cast a very public spotlight on Jacob...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville's elite. Her husband's tech business is booming, and her adored son, Finch, is bound for Princeton. Tom Volpe is a single dad working multiple jobs. His adored daughter, Lyla, attends Nashville's most prestigious private school on a scholarship. But amid the wealth and privilege, Lyla doesn't always fit in. Then one devastating photo changes everything. Finch snaps a picture of Lyla...
28) Ma Dear's aprons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 800L
Language
English
Description
Young David Earl always knows what day of the week it is, because his mother, Ma Dear, has a different apron for every day except Sunday.
29) Monster mama
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Patrick Edward's fierce monster mother helps him deal with some obnoxious bullies.
Author
Language
English
Description
Jolyon Chadwick, despite long odds, has become a veritable success story. He's a famous television presenter, and the company that he started is thriving despite his mother Maria's disdain for the project. Now Maria, who abandoned Jolyon and his father long ago, has been widowed from her second marriage and returns to ask forgiveness for her transgressions. Can Jolyon trust her motives? Does she really want a relationship with her son, or does she...
31) Sticks
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
With the help of his grandmother, his dead father's best friend, and his own best friend, a math genius, ten-year-old Mickey prepares to complete in the most important pool championship of his life, despite his mother's reservations.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
After discovering the disappearance of several household items, Marcus, a thirteen-year-old latchkey child, suspects that a stranger may be prowling around inside his house while he's at school and his mother is at work.
33) Alias
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Toby, who has spent his entire life traveling from place to place with his mother as she constantly changes her identity, discovers that she is a political fugitive from justice.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Hannah Russell's carefully crafted plans for her life have been upended without warning. When her best friend died suddenly, Hannah became guardian to a five-year-old named Noah. With no experience at motherhood, she's terrified she's not up to the challenge. She and Noah need time to get to know each other, so she decides to rent a country house with stunning views on a lake in rural Colorado. When they arrive at the house, they are greeted by the...
35) The leavers
Author
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been...
36) Johnny Angel
Author
Language
English
Description
Having lost her beloved valedictorian son in a tragic car accident, Alice Peterson begins to experience encouraging visions of her son, which are also witnessed by the late boy's troubled nine-year-old brother.
38) I wanna iguana
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 580L
Language
English
Description
Alex and his mother write notes back and forth in which Alex tries to persuade her to let him have a baby iguana for a pet.
39) Time is a mother
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Ocean Vuong's second collection of poetry looks inward, on the aftershocks of his mother's death, and the struggle - and rewards - of staying present in the world. Time Is a Mother moves outward and onward, in concert with the themes of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, as Vuong continues, through his work, his profound exploration of personal trauma, of what it means to be the product of an American war in America, and how to circle these fragmented...