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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mama Panya has just enough money to buy ingredients for a few pancakes, so when her son Adika invites all their friends to join them, she is sure there will not be enough to go around. With facts about Kenya and Kiswahili, and a recipe for pancakes, too.
2) Our table
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Violet longs for the time when her family was connected: before life, distractions, and technology pulled them all away from each other. They used to gather at the table, with food and love, to make memories, share their lives, and revel in time spent together. But now her family has been drifting apart, and with nobody to gather around it, the table grows smaller and smaller. Can Violet remind her family of the warmth of time spent together, and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Children who have a parent in prison express their feelings of sadness, anger, worry, and embarrassment and suggest that talking to others and keeping in contact with the missing parent helps them deal with the situation.
7) My brother
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A child describes the many wonderful things about "my brother," who can fly, write amazing stories, and stand up to bullies.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Saya's mother is sent to jail as an illegal immigrant, she sends her daughter a cassette tape with a song and a bedtime story, which inspires Saya to write a story of her own--one that just might bring her mother home.
11) One busy day
Author
Publisher
Disney*Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Mia's big brother Spencer never seems to have time to play with her. But with a little imagination and lot of love, Mia shows Spencer it's a lot more fun to be busy together"--
14) In plain sight
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"An ailing grandfather and his helpful granddaughter play a unique game of seek and find"--
15) Chloe
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Chloe Bunny lives with her big family of ten older brothers and sisters and ten younger brothers and sisters, but it is only Chloe who is able to compete with the new television set that Dad brings home one evening.
17) I have two homes
Author
Publisher
Clavis
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nina used to live with her parents in one house, but now she lives in two houses, sometimes with her mom and other times with her dad, and although she is confused about what is happening, Nina knows both her parents love her very much.
18) Home at last
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"After Lester is adopted from his foster home by Daddy Albert and Daddy Rich, he can't fall asleep in his new bed. What will it take to make Lester feel home at last?" --
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A girl tells what it is like living with her twin brother who has autism and sometimes finds it hard to communicate with words, but who, in most ways, is just like any other boy. Includes authors' note about autism.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henry Cooper and his dog Pomegranate have two houses. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and every other weekend, they live with Mama in her new apartment, but on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and every other weekend, they live with Papa in his new house.
Henry and Pomegranate are happy as they dance with Mama and sing with Papa, but Henry knows that sometimes Pomegranate gets confused and just wants to go . . . home.
This gentle and accessible story about dealing...
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