Alison McGhee
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When the snow falls, a young boy makes a snowman that becomes his friend until the seasons change.
Author
Language
English
Description
Who gets to choose? When a young woman emerges from a lengthy coma-like state she must face the decisions that were made about her body-without her consent-in this powerful novel of reclamation and hope.
Twenty-one-year-old Mallie Williams-scrappy, headstrong, and wise beyond her years-has just landed on her feet following a tumultuous youth when the unthinkable happens: she is violently assaulted. The crime leaves her comatose, surrounded by friends...
Author
Language
English
Description
For seventeen-year-old Rose, it keeps happening - the car crash. The car crash that put her sister, Ivy, in a coma with only a respirator keeping her alive. While Rose tries to find support from her reticent mother, distraction from the series of boys she meets at the town's gorge at night, and empathy from her neighbor William T., what she really needs must come from within herself - a release of what's been welling up inside. Heartrending, honest,...
7) Someday
Author
Language
English
Description
A mother's love leads to a mother's dream--every mother's dream--for her child to live life to its fullest. A deceptively simple, powerful ode to the potential of love and the potential in life, Someday is a story that you'll want to share today.
Author
Language
English
Description
Clean, cold, white snow! Snow for sledding. Snow for catching on your tongue. Snow for making a SNOWMAN! Is there anything as wonderful as SNOW? Is there any better friend than a SNOWMAN? Snow isn't forever, though. The wind shifts, the weather warms and snow melts into spring. The Snowman has become something else - the fog, the rain. But, how can this boy forget his good friend? He doesn't…and he doesn't have to. This title includes Read-Along...
Author
Language
English
Description
Clean, cold, white snow! Snow for sledding. Snow for catching on your tongue. Snow for making a SNOWMAN! Is there anything as wonderful as SNOW? Is there any better friend than a SNOWMAN? Snow isn't forever, though. The wind shifts, the weather warms and snow melts into spring. The Snowman has become something else - the fog, the rain. But, how can this boy forget his good friend? He doesn't…and he doesn't have to.
Author
Language
English
Description
The angels are aflutter: a baby is soon to be born! One small angel can tell this baby is especially special. And holy moly, are their presents extraordinary. The little angel wants to give a present too, but, what could she possibly offer that is as worthy as the others' gifts? At a loss for ideas, she peeks over the side of her platform and spies something going on in the desert - a caravan of kings on camels, lost in the dark. She does the only...
Author
Language
English
Description
The angels are aflutter: a baby is soon to be born! One small angel can tell this baby is especially special. And holy moly, are their presents extraordinary. The little angel wants to give a present too, but, what could she possibly offer that is as worthy as the others' gifts? At a loss for ideas, she peeks over the side of her platform and spies something going on in the desert - a caravan of kings on camels, lost in the dark. She does the only...
12) Someday
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mother reflects on the all the milestones, from walking in a deep wood to holding someone else's hand, that her child will achieve during life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A young witch describes what she does on Halloween, her favorite holiday. On the far side of town in a big dark house lives a brave little witch. She has heard lots and lots about that very human holiday Halloween, and even though she thinks she knows what humans are like, she has never, ever seen Halloween for herself. Until one very special Halloween comes along.
14) Maybe a fox
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
An otherworldly fox is born to help eleven-year-old Jules, who is grieving over the death of her sister.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"What can a small angel give a most important baby? A Christmas story about the greatest gift of all"--
16) Where we are
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in the voices of two high school juniors, Micah is held captive by the cult his parents joined and Sesame, his orphaned girlfriend, rallies their friends to save him.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl wants to fly like a witch on a broom, and one special night, through enormous effort and with the help of her brother, her black cat, and an owl, she fulfills her dream.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 550L
Language
English
Description
Since his father's suicide, Will tries to overcome his own misery by secretly helping the people around him-- and trying to replicate his late father's famous cornbread recipe. When Will learns his friend Playa was raped at a party, he believes he could have stopped the worst from happening if he hadn't left early, he's determined do some good in the world. Will acts of kindness help Will push past his own trauma and truly begin to live his life again?...
20) Firefly Hollow
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
291 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Because their dreams of daring adventures go against the cautious teachings of their nations, Firefly and Cricket set out on their own, find a home with kindly Vole, and together help a grieving "miniature giant" named Peter.