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Author
Publisher
Joy Street Books
Pub. Date
c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Text and illustrations of dinosaur characters introduce aspects of divorce such as its causes and effects, living with a single parent, spending holidays in two separate households, and adjusting to a stepparent.
Publisher
Zuiker Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Sophia, the fourteen-year-old author and protagonist, tells the heart-wrenching story of her parents' divorce. She was just nine years old, happy and enjoying life with her mom, dad, and little brother in Las Vegas, Nevada. Unexpectedly, one night, a violent argument disrupted her sleep and shattered her life. The next morning, her parents told her the dreaded newsthey were getting divorced. Her dad was moving to California, while Sophia and her brother...
7) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
10) I have two homes
Author
Publisher
Clavis
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl named Nina recounts her feelings about her parents' divorce and describes what it is like to live in two households in this touching picture book. Everything is different from the way it was, and sometimes the behavior of the adults around her is upsetting to Nina. This honest, uncomplicated account of divorce from a child's point of view will reassure and comfort young readers who are experiencing the changes that divorce brings to a...
11) Just like always
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A girl finds that most things in her life remain the same after her parents' divorce.
13) Make believe
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
Carrie and Jill are best friends and their families have always been close, so when Jill's parents separate, it not only affects Carrie and Jill's friendship, but Carrie's feelings about her own family as well.
Author
Series
I am book volume V. 2
Publisher
Stranger Kids
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Twins Jay and Nia are children of two worlds and two homes. Readers can follow the siblings as they both address the difficulties of having parents who are no longer together and discover the benefits of having two very different homes to explore and enjoy.
Author
Series
Amber Brown volume V. 7
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Amber Brown faces further complications because of her parents' divorce when her father plans to move back from Paris and she must decide which parent she will be with on Thanksgiving.
16) Missing Rabbit
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As Kara divides her time between Papa's house and Mama's house, she is comforted by the presence of her toy Rabbit.
17) The Landry News
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Shortly after he gets the perfect dog, Riley, eleven-year-old William must fight for his dog's life after Riley is taken away because he chases and injures an elderly neighbor's old horse.
19) Buttermilk Hill
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Lindy's parents divorce and gradually begin to make new lives for themselves she finds all the changes difficult, but in time she starts to find her own way.
Author
Series
Amber Brown volume V. 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Unhappy over her parents' divorce and her mother's boyfriend Max, nine-year-old Amber finds her schoolwork suffering.
