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Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After arriving at their new home on moving day, a boy and his younger brother turn an empty box into a rocket ship and pretend to blast off. Together, they face the unknowns of a new place with the courage of astronauts embarking on a voyage to a new planet.
Author
Series
Alexander (Judith Viorst) volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Angry Alexander refuses to move away if it means having to leave his favorite friends and special places.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In a series of letters to her absent father, twelve-year-old Emily Ebers deals with moving cross-country, her parents' divorce, a new friendship, and her first serious crush.
11) No friends
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
Description
Worried that they won't make friends in their new neighborhood, Mary Ann and Louie listen to Grandpa reminiscce about the new friends he and his brother made when he moved to another neighborhood.
12) Homegrown house
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl describes her grandmother's comfortable, long-time home, and wishes that she and her parents could stay in the same house instead of moving so often.
13) Skellig
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Language
English
Description
Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel.
14) Willowood
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Lily has trouble leaving her best friend behind and moving to the city when her mother changes jobs, but she makes some very unlikely friends that soon become like family members.
Author
Series
Rainbow Street Shelter volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Logan's dog runs away as he and his mother are moving to a new home after his parents separate, a girl named Hannah, who longs for a dog of her own, finds him.
17) Strawberry Hill
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Allie's family moves from urban New Haven to rural Stamford, Connecticut, in the midst of the Great Depression.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006, c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The hand-lettered contents of a nine-year-old girl's notebook, in which she records her thoughts and feelings about moving, starting school, and dealing with her older sister, as well as keeping her old best friend and making a new one.
20) The new girl
Author
Series
Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Guided by her rules, nine-year-old Allie works to get past being just the new girl at school, eagerly awaits the arrival of her kitten, and faces turmoil when her grandmother visits while the family is still settlling into their new home.
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