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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
170 p.
Language
English
Description
Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
2) Holes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
4) Hold fast
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
274 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a cold winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother have been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless--and it is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century England, after her father's disappearance, Nan Sparrow, ten, works as a "climbing boy," aiding chimney sweeps, but when her most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Brought to Moscow in 1990s Russia by his mother's abusive boyfriend, five-year-old Mishka is forced by a gang of homeless children to lie and steal until he finds comfort and love with a pack of dogs. Includes historical note.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Growing up in a rural Pennsylvania town in the aftermath of two world wars, Annabelle confronts a violent new bully and must defend a traumatized World War I veteran who is wrongly implicated in the bully's disappearance.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"While learning about September 11th, fifth grader Deja (born after the attacks) realizes how much the events still color her world"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
10) Crenshaw
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"A story about a homeless boy and his imaginary friend that proves in unexpected ways that friends matter, whether real or imaginary"--
11) Stay
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Unabridged.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (360 mn.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Fans of Pax and A Dog's Way Home will love this heartwarming story of a girl living in a shelter and the homeless dog she's determined to reunite with his family.
Piper's life is turned upside down when her family moves into a shelter in a whole new city. She misses her house, her friends, and her privacy-and she hates being labeled the homeless girl at her new school.
But while Hope House offers her new challenges, it also brings new friendships,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Magnus Chase has always been a troubled kid. Since his mother's mysterious death, he's lived alone on the streets of Boston, surviving by his wits, keeping one step ahead of the police and the truant officers. One day, he is tracked down by a man he's never met -- a man his mother claimed was dangerous. The man tells him an impossible secret: Magnus is the son of a Norse god. The Viking myths are true. The gods of Asgard are preparing for war. Trolls,...