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Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Randi, unhappy about moving from Brooklyn to Deer Creek, Tennessee, after her mother's death, soon finds new friends and a case to solve surrounding a stolen time capsule and rumors of a centuries-old treasure.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When their scientist father moves them to a new home next to a swamp, Kelli and Shawn hear stories about a terrifying, ancient beast that inhabits the muck and the pair try to convince their father to move them out before it strikes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
When Tanner moves to an exclusive new town he misses his old skate park, but with the help of the town bully and another new friend, Tanner thinks he can figure out a way to get a skate park built in Woodville.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Olivia finds a strange message written on the bathroom walls of a few public places in her new hometown, she finds herself in the midst of a mystery to solve--and in need of a new friend to help her solve it.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Chee-Kee, a young panda, moves with his parents to a new land of opportunity. Just when he's resigned to never fit in, Chee-Kee finds a way to use his own experience and ingenuity to save the day and show that he's one of a kind in all the best ways"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After her mother's attempted suicide, thirteen-year-old Anna goes to live with her father and his new family, and learns to navigate the shifting loyalties of middle school friendships.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks/Libros Colibri
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Third grader María Isabel, born in Puerto Rico and now living in the U.S., wants badly to fit in at school; and the teacher's writing assignment "My Greatest Wish" gives her that opportunity.
Author
Series
Amish bookstore volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
With little left to tie her to her home state of Texas and yearning for a slower life, Yvonne Wilson jumps at the chance to shake things up with a move to Montgomery, Indiana. A dream job awaits her-managing an Amish bookstore for her good friends Jake and Eva. Besides the slow-paced setting and the comfort of beloved books, Yvonne hopes the change will help distract her from the emptiness she feels after the death of her fiancé. No longer a part...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Because his family has moved again Josh Baxter is starting at a new school for the third time in two years, and this time he has really started off on the wrong foot--but when his mother takes away the video games that have become his refuge because of his poor grades, Josh realizes he has to come up with a new strategy for success.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Newly divorced Alison Kerby wants a second chance for herself and her nine-year-old daughter. She's returned to her hometown on the Jersey Shore to transform a Victorian fixer-upper into a charming-and profitable-guest house. One small problem: the house is haunted, and the two ghosts insist Alison must find out who killed them.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
I've got seven days to come clean to my new dad. Seven days to tell the truth... For sixteen-year-old Tiffany Sly, life hasn't been safe or normal for a while. Losing her mom to cancer has her a little bit traumatized and now she has to leave her hometown of Chicago to live with the biological dad she's never known. Anthony Stone is a rich man with four other daughters--and rules for every second of the day. Tiffany tries to make the best of things,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jenny and Bill are a married couple whose love is absolute. They're certain they are fated to be together until the end of time, but tragedy strikes when they least expect it, cutting their lives and their happiness short. More than thirty years later, Bob, a hardened New York City publisher, will meet his match in Lillibet, a shy Amish girl who is a talented writer. Though these two couldn't be less alike, they immediately sense a deep connection...
93) Runaway Max
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Don't miss this gripping, emotional prequel to the hit Netflix series, Stranger Things! The never-before-told backstory of the beloved Dig Dug maven, Max Mayfield, written by New York Times bestselling author Brenna Yovanoff. This must-read novel, based on the hit Netflix series, Stranger Things, explores Max's past--the good and the bad--as well as how she came to find her newfound sense of home in Hawkins, Indiana"--
After she moves from California...
94) A simple change
Author
Series
Home to Amana novels volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
95) The struggle
Author
Series
Kentucky brothers volume 3
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Timothy Fisher decides to move his wife, Hannah, and daughter, Mindy, to Christian County, Kentucky, where two of his brothers now reside, Hannah is very reluctant to leave her Amish home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
96) Where's Jamela?
Author
Series
Jamela books volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Mama gets a new job and a new house, everyone is excited about moving except Jamela who likes her old house just fine. When Mama tells Jamela about her new job and a new place for them to live, Mama is excited but Jamela isn't. She likes so many things about the house they live in now -- the squeaky front gate she swings on, the view from her window, the neighborhood sounds and smells. But on moving day Jamela is ready to help -- although none...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Skye must confront her most savage secrets to save her missing thirteen-year-old sister, Deirdre, from stick-and-bone monsters that have come to life in the woods behind their new home.
Skye believes that moving across the country will be the perfect chance to start over. In their isolated new neighborhood Skye manages to fit in, but her younger sister Deirdre withdraws from everyone, becoming fixated on the swampy woods behind their...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When Izzy is dragged from New York City to a tiny town for her parents' new job, the only silver lining is the gorgeous old mansion they moved into. It is the former home of an artist's muse who died tragically in a fire. The house has its quirks: whole floors closed off, paintings covered up, and cell reception nonexistent. Izzy throws herself into starting an Instagram fashion account using the gowns and jewelry she finds in the house. The pictures...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Never Have I Ever comes the hair-raising story of a mother who moves herself and her daughter across the country to lose a dangerous stalker-only to discover that it will take more than distance to escape him"--
It started with the letters... For actress Meribel Mills, disturbing fan mail is part of the price of fame. So when she starts getting creepy letters written in fruit-scented marker she is mostly...
100) The missing season
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After moving to a new town for her father's job, Clara learns that kids go missing from Pender every October and that a monster named the Mumbler may be responsible.
Every October another kid goes missing from the old factory town of Pender. There's a monster out in the marshes, called the Mumbler. That's what Bree, Sage, Trace and Kincaid tell Clara when she moves to town with her father. Clara doesn't actually believe in the Mumbler, not like Kinkaid...
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