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61) My mom is great
Author
Language
English
Description
A boy tells about the qualities that make his mother great in his eyes.
Author
Series
UNICORNE files volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the UNICORNE agency asks him to use his paranormal abilities to investigate a dragon's scale, the same artifact his father was researching before he disappeared, Michael Malone believes he will finally be able to find out what happened to his father--but as he delves into his father's past it becomes harder to tell who he can trust and which of the alternate realities he is discovering is the true reality.
Author
Series
UNICORNE files volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Michael Malone saves a dog, he discovers that he has paranormal abilities, which bring him to the attention of a secret organization, UNICORNE--but he plans to use the ability to find out what happened to his father, who mysteriously vanished three years earlier, and save his new friend, Freya.
64) Nine
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Julian lives in a world where humans have nine lives. As you shed lives, you shed your awkward phases: one death is equal to one physical and mental upgrade. His mother burned through her first eight in just a few years, but Juliann is determined to stay on his first for as long as he can. He has no intention of succumbing to the debilitating rebirth sickness that she inflicted on herself. But the regime has death incentives aimed at controlling overpopulation,...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As two Takunami youths approach their thirteenth birthdays, Luka reaches the culmination of his mother's training for the tribe's manhood test while Tirio, raised in Miami, Florida, by his adoptive mother, feels called to begin preparations to prove himself during his upcoming visit to the Amazon rain forest where he was born.
Author
Series
Publisher
Charlesbridge Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It is almost bedtime, but first young Marco must put away his collection of stuffed animal toys. As a budding scientist Marco tries different ways of sorting the animals, but the animals have their own ideas. Marco scrambles to make everyone happy and make it to bed before his mother comes to tuck him in"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
TombQuest volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
189 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alex and Ren must confront the Death Walkers, The Order, and an army of the dead in an attempt to save themselves, Alex's mother, and the world--and hope that Ammit, the Devourer of Egyptian legend, will be able to separate the guilty from the innocent.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
296 pages; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
For a responsible sixteen-year-old, Michael Wilson has a lot of problems--his father was killed in Afghanistan in 2005, his overworked and overprotective mother will not talk about their situation, and does not want him playing football, and he has suddenly started to receive letters that his father wrote before his death.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A new spin on the classic song 'Hush, Little Baby,' this truck-themed lullaby follows a mother and child as they discover different vehicles, from a bulldozer to a front-end loader. Kim Norman's gentle rhyming text, paired with Toshiki Nakamura's imaginative illustrations, makes this picture book a great option for bedtime read-alouds." -- Provided by publisher.
70) Fakie
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
142 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
At first glance, Alex Miller seems like a typical teen. Look closer, and you'll see that his life is anything but typical. For Alex, fitting in has become a matter of life and death. The unfortunate witness to a murder, Alex can't forget the things he has seen, and neither can the man he helped put in jail. The Witness Relocation Program has changed the identities of Alex and his mother repeatedly, and they need to keep running to stay one step ahead...
71) Divided we fall
Author
Series
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Physical Desc
374 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Danny Wright, seventeen, joined the Idaho Army National Guard to serve the country as his father had, but when the Guard is sent to an anti-government protest in Boise and Danny's gun accidently fires, he finds himself at the center of a conflict that results in the federal government declaring war on Idaho.
72) Knockout
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in assonant free verse, Levi was once a premature baby who suffered from respiratory problems; he recovered, and now in seventh grade, he struggles to demonstrate to his divorced mother and overprotective brother that he is okay--so when his father suggests he take up boxing, he falls in love with the sport, but he still must find a way to convince his family to set him free to follow his dream.
73) Boy X
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Ash McCarthy wakes up after his father's funeral, he finds that he has been kidnapped to an island off the coast of Costa Rica, caught in the middle of a secret and deadly project named Kronos in which his mother is somehow involved, and he must find a way to save them both--and the only person he is sure he can trust is a Spanish girl his own age named Isabel.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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.
75) Lucky for good
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The residents of Hard Pan, California, come together to help Brigitte and Lucky when the County Health Department threatens to close down the café, and meantime Miles's life is complicated by his mother's return.
Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume no. 5
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book was never meant to exist. No one needs to know the details. Just know this: there's a Merry, a Larry, a missing tooth, and a teachers' strike that is crippling Timmy Failure s academic future. Worst of all, Timmy is banned from detective work. It's a conspiracy of buffoons. He recorded everything in his private notebook, but then the manuscript was stolen. If this book gets out, he will be grounded for life. Or maybe longer. And will Timmy's...
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
AD 530L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discover all of Chilli's mum skills from playing Grannies, dancing, and taking care of Bluey and Bingo. She even makes brushing their teeth and fur fun in this adorable and hilarious book. And, most importantly, Mum teaches them that the world is a magical place. This is the perfect book to celebrate Mom on Mother's Day, or any day!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
193 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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....
80) Sunshine
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
193 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
For most of Ben's life, he has been a kid without a mom. He has his dad, who knows Ben doesn't like oatmeal and always hugs Ben before bed. And he has Sunshine, his loyal little dog, who is never far from his side. But his mom, who left when he was young, has just been a story, faint in his memory. Now he's about to spend a whole week with her on her remote island in the middle of the northern Minnesota wilderness. Though he's nervous about bears...