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Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Virgil Pepper is returning to Little Lost Lake in Oregon with his older brother and sister to scatter their mother's ashes in the place she loved best, but when their van breaks down in the middle nowhere, it is up to Virgil, who shared his mother's love of science and the wild, to remember and use all the lessons she taught him to survive a forest fire started by a lightning strike.
62) Leo at the park
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Leo spends the day at the park with his mother and his friend Suki playing on the swings, building a sandcastle, splashing in water, and having a picnic.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Edgar and his mother move to Dawson, a town in Yukon, Canada, for a new start, but when Edgar fears his mother's destructive behavior will force them to leave, he turns to a dog named Benjamin to help him stop the worst from happening.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Although his mother is a little worried, a young boy is delighted to discover that every shop in town is giving away real dinosaurs to their customers.
65) Little bear
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Little Bear's four adventures include taking a trip to the moon and having a birthday party.
67) Faraway things
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Lucian enjoys searching the beach below his home for treasure, but after becoming attached to a mysterious cutlass he meets its owner, who offers something greater for its return.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) ; col. ill., 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As he gets into bed, Timmy Bear asks his mother to play a game with him in which they remember everything he did during the day, but in reverse order.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
401 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When his mother accidentally kills a Quidnunk in the woods, Osmo Unknown must embark on a quest to find the Eightpenny Woods--the mysterious kingdom where all wild forest creatures go when they die--and make amends.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Willow and Mason, two teens who are unceremoniously dragged to Salem, Massachusetts for the summer, meet and help each other figure out their places in the world.
71) Mommy's hometown
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
When a young boy and his mother travel to her childhood home in Korea, the town is not as he imagined until he visits the river where she used to play and sees that the spirit and happiness of those days remain.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Joseph and Mama lived in a refugee camp in East Africa, everyone cooked and ate together, but it's much too quiet and lonely in his new home, so in the hopes of serving a feast, he invites everyone he knows.
73) Leo loves Mommy
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Leo enjoys a full day of fun and snuggles with his mommy"--
Author
Publisher
Disney/Jump at the Sun Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a rhythmically-written conversation between parent and child, Mama lists her son's many good traits--from physical attributes to behavior--and though he dismisses each quality as just a little thing, Mama explains that there is nothing little about love.
75) The Callers
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Elipsom the ability to call, or summon objects, is a coveted skill, and Quintus Octavius is from a family of powerful Callers, but Quin does not have the gift, and he is mortified when his mother and sister cheat for him at his test; but in a moment of frustration Quin makes something disappear and discovers that the all the objects that Callers summon are not conjured out of air, but come from a place called Evantra, which his people have been...
76) Hair for Mama
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Marcus's mother has chemotherapy for her cancer and loses her hair, he tries to find new hair for her to make her well again.
Author
Publisher
Miramax Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In graphic novel format, a twelve-year-old genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, causing the fairies to fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
193 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Known as the Roadkill Kid due to his mother's job, middle schooler Jack becomes his mom's assistant as he deals with his parents' divorce, even though he just wants to finally talk to Zoe, his conservationist classmate with the bright green eyes."--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Bobby Seed, the devoted but exhausted primary caregiver for his terminally-ill mother and difficult younger brother, finds respite in a support group and good friends, but must face his mother's impossible choice alone.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maverick Falconer is just starting middle school and he wishes he were a hero like his father because maybe then he could deal with his mother's drinking and series of abusive boyfriends, not to mention the kids who bully him in middle school (pretty much the same ones who bullied him in elementary school)--but as the year passes he begins to realize that other kids have problems too, and maybe if they can all survive sixth-grade things will get better....
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