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21) The gardener
Author
Lexile measure
AD 570L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.
Author
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unhappy about being sent to the same summer camp after their fathers start dating, Bett and Avery, two girls, age eleven, eventually begin scheming to get the couple back together after a break-up. Told entirely through letters, emails and text messages.
23) Why we broke up
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Min Green writes a letter to Ed Slaterton in which she breaks up with him, documenting their relationship and how items in the accompanying box, from bottle caps to a cookbook, foretell the end.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
150 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
While finding new vegetable names to call her little brother, eight-year-old Clementine hatches a plan to prevent her beloved teacher from being selected to go on a once-in-a-lifetime research trip to Egypt.
25) Extra credit
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
183 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.
26) Dear Yeti
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Told through a series of notes, two boys go on a hike hoping to find Yeti but run into trouble along the way.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Finding a mysterious letter from her late Grandpa, Dally is led straight to a library of secrets where each book is a portal to a precise moment in time, and she must find the courage to write her own life story as she "checks out" adventure after adventure.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
Eleven-year-old knuckleball pitcher Vivy Cohen, who has autism, becomes pen pals with her favorite Major League baseball player after writing a letter to him as an assignment for her social skills class.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The situation is getting dire for Jews in Poland on the eve of World War II. Esther's father has fled to Cuba, and she is the first one to join him. It's heartbreaking to be separated from her beloved sister, so Esther promises to write down everything that happens until they're reunited. And she does, recording both the good--the kindness of the Cuban people and her discovery of a valuable hidden talent--and the bad: the fact that Nazism has found...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
284 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sometimes I have trouble filling out tests when the name part feels like a test too. . . . When I write letters, I love that you have to read all of my thoughts and stories before I say any name at all. You have to make it to the very end to know. Rowan has too many secrets to write down in the pages of a diary. And if he did, he wouldn't want anyone he knows to read them. He understands who he is and what he likes, but it's not safe for others to...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Atticus "Tick" Higginbottom begins receiving mysterious letters from around the world signed only "M.G.," and the clues contained therein lead him on a journey to the perilous 13th Reality and a confrontation with evil Mistress Jane.
32) Dear Sister
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
560L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Brother chronicles life with his frequently-annoying Sister, from the time she is born until she is ten and he leaves for college, through a series of letters and drawings.
33) Dear Justyce
Author
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Incarcerated teen Quan Banks writes letters to Justyce McCallister, with whom he bonded years before over family issues, about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system.
34) The love letter
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Stumbling on the same mysterious love letter in turn, best friends Hedgehog, Bunny, and Squirrel are reminded of the joys of friendship following a silly mix-up about their secret admirer.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Amos Abernathy lives for history. Literally. He's been a historical reenactor nearly all his life. But when a cute new volunteer arrives at his Living History Park, Amos finds himself wondering if there's something missing from history: someone like the two of them. Amos is sure there must have been LGBTQ+ people in nineteenth-century Illinois. His search turns up Albert D. J. Cashier, a Civil War soldier who might have identified as a trans man...
36) Dear Martin
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
37) Dear Beast
Author
Series
Dear Beast volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
530L
Physical Desc
77 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Through a series of letters, Simon, a grumpy and jealous cat, informs Baxter, his boy's new dog, that he is not welcome and should leave at once.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Augusta writes letters to her younger sister, Louie, about life in middle school, from tackling a new school building to meeting new people like the assistant principal, the class pet, and the renegade.
39) Dear stray
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
AD 750L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A little girl adopts the prickliest stray kitten at the shelter because sometimes she feels prickly, too." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Laurel starts writing letters to dead people for a school assignment, she begins to spill about her sister's mysterious death, her mother's departure from the family, her new friends, and her first love.