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2) Army brats
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When the Bailey family moves into an army base in Virginia there are a lot of adjustments to make; twelve-year-old Tom runs afoul of the base school bully, ten-year-old Charlotte finds herself trying too hard to make friends with the "cool" girls, and six-year-old Rosie is just being difficult as usual--but they come together to investigate a mysterious building full of weird cages, and uncover Fort Patrick's secrets.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Skye's cousin Hiroshi and his family move to Virginia from Japan, the cultural differences lead to misunderstandings and both children are unhappy at the changes in their lives--will flying the dragon kite finally bring them together?
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Treasure Daniels and her younger sister must move in with Great-aunt Grace until their mother sorts herself out, but life in Black Lake, Virginia, where segregation lingers, is hard and Grace is a nightmare--at least on the surface.
Author
Series
Shiloh quartet volume 4
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
With Christmas coming, Marty and Shiloh hope the holiday will bring their town the generosity of spirit that's lacking, but a fire in the woods destroys homes and the town blames the man Marty rescued Shiloh from.
Author
Publisher
Neal Porter Books/Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A girl describes her family's annual visit with Mamaw and Papaw in West Virginia, then Abuela and Abuelo in Florida, especially the foods and cultural elements that make each kitchen unique.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Eleven-year-old Genie develops a special bond with his grandfather when he and his brother travel from Brooklyn for a month-long stay with their grandparents in rural Virginia.
"Scooping poop at his grandparent's house - that sure as heck wasn't the way eleven-year-old Genie expected to be spending his summer. But when his parents send him and his big brother, Ernie, to Virginia to experience the great (not!) outdoors, they're in for some big surprises....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Evan Pao and his family move to Haddington, Virginia in hopes of keeping his father's notoriety a secret, but a small southern town is not an easy place for a Chinese-American boy to fit in, and one kid, Brady Griggs, seems determined to make things difficult.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Every summer on Chincoteague Island, there is an auction of ponies who have swum across the channel from Assateague, where ponies run free. If Julie works hard and saves her money all year, perhaps she can win the pony of her dreams, her very own Chincoteague pony"--Publisher
11) Bone's gift
Author
Series
Ghosts of ordinary objects volume 1
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In a southern Virginia coal-mining town in 1942, like others in her mother's family, twelve-year-old Bone Phillips finds she also has a Gift. Her particular Gift allows her to see the stories in everyday objects. She finds an anonymous note that says the Gift killed her mother.
Author
Series
Stink Moody volume 4
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stink Moody, friends Webster and Sophie, and Mrs. Birdwistle visit tourist attractions in Virginia as they try to give away 101 guinea pigs rescued from a laboratory, although Stink is very reluctant to give away his favorite, Astro.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In the early 1950s, Lydia Hawkins has grown up poor in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia with her widowed mother, brother BJ, who has cystic fibrosis, and her Gran, but when Gran and BJ die and her mother is jailed unjustly, Lydia must try to remain strong and clear her mother's name, even after she learns a shocking secret from the uncle with whom she is sent to live.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Javari knew that West Virginia would be different from his home in Bushwick, Brooklyn. But his first day at STEM Camp in a little Appalachian town is still a shock. Though run-ins with the police are just the same here. Not good. Javari will learn a lot about science ... And also about rich people, racism, and hidden agendas. But it's Cricket, a local boy, budding activist, and occasional thief, who will show him a different side of the holler--and...
Author
Series
Math Inspectors volume 5
Publisher
Trendwood Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The Math Inspectors--Stanley, Charlotte, Gertie, Felix, and Herman--take on another mystery during the Ravensburg Middle School's seventh grade field trip adventure to the old mining town of Forgotten, West Virginia.
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Judy Moody gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother Stink thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third grade class to undertake an award-winning, environment-saving project.
17) Pocahontas
Author
Series
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Reinforced library bound edition.
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During a visit to her grandfather's plantation in Virginia during the summer of 1775, Felicity's loyalty is torn between her father and Ben, her father's apprentice who needs her help as he runs away to join George Washington's army of Patriots.
19) Trail trouble
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Keys family is vacationing at Shenandoah National Park intending to do some serious hiking, but twelve-year-old Marlon would much rather be on his phone talking with his friends at home in Chicago, and is further annoyed because the girl his own age, Nadia, turns out to be an experienced hiker; but when on the first day his complaining and resistance separates him from his parents his "boring" vacation becomes an exercise in survival as he and...
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