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2) Soar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Moving to Hillcrest, Ohio, when his adoptive father accepts a temporary job, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has sixty days to find a baseball team to coach
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Thyme Owens moves across the country with her family so her younger brother can take part in a promising cancer drug trial, and though all she wants is for him to get better, adjusting to life in Manhattan is anything but easy"--
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley," with a new stepfamily but no new friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters
9) Roll with it
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease
10) Florette
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Mae's family moves from the country to the city, she is sad to leave behind her beloved backyard garden but before long, she finds a way to start a new garden
11) Full cicada moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race background and interest in "boyish" topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider
12) Eventown
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
To Elodee, eleven, things seem a little too perfect in Eventown when she moves there with her parents and identical twin, Naomi, especially since forgetting the past is so highly valued
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"How do you say good-bye to your very best friend?"--Page 1 of cover
15) Leaving Lymon
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Raised by his grandparents, first in Mississippi then in Wisconsin, ten-year-old Lymon moves to Chicago in 1945 to live with the mother he never knew, while yearning for his father
Author
Series
Fenway and Hattie volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"An excitable Jack Russell terrier named Fenway and his Favorite Short Human, Hattie, move to the suburbs and must adjust to the changes that come with their new home"--
17) Zola's elephant
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A little girl hesitates to initiate a friendship with her new neighbor Zola because she imagines Zola is busy with another friend--an elephant
Author
Series
Chance to fly volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After moving across the country, thirteen-year-old Natalie auditions for her new school's play and overcomes her fears and insecurities about performing in a wheelchair
20) Later, Gator!
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Gator's moving and he gets encouragement from his old friends to make new friends in his new neighborhood
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