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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Josh, who has just moved to Vermont with his mother, stepfather, and new baby brother, must deal with the bullying of a neighbor boy and discovers that his dog, whom he hears talking with other dogs, is also facing a bully of his own.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperThrophy
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After moving with their widowed mother to the home in the woods near Concord, Wisconsin, nine-year-old Caroline Quiner, who grows up to become the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and her brothers and sisters try to adjust to their new neighborhood and new stepfather.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Charli's impulsive uncle, Will Crandall, decides to buy the town's abandoned, possibly haunted castle and fix it up as a bed-and-breakfast, but Charli and Sophia, a clairvoyant orphan who has come to stay with the Crandall family, know his plan is somehow dangerous.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Press
Pub. Date
[1987]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When his mother's new marriage takes them into the household of a miniature golf course owner, ten-year-old Wedge struggles with feelings of resentment and dislike for his stepfather.
6) Baby Blue
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In western Massachusetts in 1976, still grieving and guilt-ridden over her father's drowning, twelve-year-old Blue is dealt another blow when her older sister, Star, runs away to escape their stepfather's violence against their mother.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Working for his stepfather on a charter fishing boat in Hawaii teaches thirteen-year-old Mikey about fishing, and about taking risks, making sacrifices, and facing some of life's difficult choices.
10) Play on
Author
Series
Sports stories volume 73
Publisher
J. Lorimer
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Series
High Sierra Adventure volume 4
Publisher
T. Nelson Publishers
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While on a climbing trip with his stepfather, Josh Landis decides that he must try to rescue two young eagles from their almost inaccessible mountaintop eyrie.
13) Cougar chase
Author
Series
High Sierra adventure volume 2
Publisher
T. Nelson
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After moving with his mother and stepfather to the High Sierra country, twelve-year-old Josh and his new friend Ashley get caught up in the hunt for a wiley old cougar.
14) Setting the trap
Author
Series
High Sierra Adventure volume 3
Publisher
T. Nelson
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Josh Landis has a chance to use some of the knowledge he has gained since moving to the High Sierras with his mother and stepfather, a park ranger, when he helps look for the person who has been setting rusty old traps and wounding animals.
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