Alison McGhee
6) Someday
Author
Description
A mother reflects on the all the milestones, from walking in a deep wood to holding someone else's hand, that her child will achieve during life.
7) Shadow baby
Author
Description
Eleven-year-old Clara struggles to find the truth about her missing father, grandfather, and her dead twin sister in this journey of discovery about friendship, families and communication.
10) Snap: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Eleven-year-old Edwina confronts old and new challenges when her longtime best friend Sally faces the inevitable death of the grandmother who raised her.
Author
Pub. Date
1/16/19
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this novel with 100 chapters of 100 words each, sixteen-year-old Will is trying to cope with his dad's suicide three years ago. Most days he works at a discount store, tries to make his father's famous cornbread recipe, and wanders the streets of Los Angeles. He begins to come out of his sadness when he starts leaving small gifts for the people he sees every day. This act transforms Will and everyone around him.
12) Making a friend
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When the snow falls, a young boy makes a snowman that becomes his friend until the seasons change.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
When Clara Winter left her rural Adirondack town for college, she never looked back. Her mother, Tamar, a fiercely independent but loving woman who raised Clara on her own, all but pushed her out the door, forcing Clara to build a new life for herself, far from her roots, far from her high school boyfriend, far from the life she had always known. Now more than a decade has passed, and Clara, a successful writer, has been summoned home. Tamar has become...
15) Pablo & Birdy
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Pablo, nearly ten, has many questions about his origins and how he arrived at Isla as a baby, but finding the answers may mean losing his lifetime companion, Birdy the parrot.
17) Bink & Gollie
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Two roller-skating best friends--one tiny, one tall--share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion.
Author
Series
Julia Gillian volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Ten-year-old Julia Gillian's best friend is keeping secrets, their beloved lunch lady was replaced by a tyrant, and trumpet lessons prove difficult, making it hard for her to follow the music teacher's advice to "look for the joy."