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Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 610L
Language
English
Description
Although Lolly loves to visit her Auntie Zep's house, she feels homesick when she actually gets there, and so Auntie Zep retrieves the Secret Remedy Book from an old trunk.
Author
Publisher
Rising Moon
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Josefina, a javelina who dreams of becoming a famous ballerina, heads for California hoping to be discovered, but her cousin Angelina takes her to a talent agent who looks strangely familiar.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 550L
Language
English
Description
When Buster the dog's owner goes away for a few days, he sends Buster to Sagebrush Kennels for Cowboy Camp, where Buster is homesick at first, but then has fun herding balls into the corral, gathering sticks for a campfire, and making wanted posters with his pawprints.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Mary Lou grows up considerably during the summer while learning about romance, homesickness, death, and her cousin's search for his biological father.
15) Wild girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Harper loves spending time with her gorgeous new kitten, Sammy. He likes sitting in the window, exploring their flat and playing in the garden. But then Harper and her family have to move in with her gran after she has a bad fall, and everything changes. Sammy doesn't feel at home at Gran's house. He misses the smells and sounds of the flat, his real home. So when he spots an opportunity to go back, he takes it. But Sammy soon discovers home is more...
20) The quiet place
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Language
English
Description
The story of young immigrant Isabel, who misses her family and friends back in Mexico while decorating a large box as a place of quiet contemplation and encountering new experiences, including a first snowstorm and a kind teacher.