Lord, Cynthia
Summary: On the last night of summer, Emma and her Maine game warden father rescue a small domestic rabbit stuck in a fence; the very next day Emma starts fifth grade after years of being home schooled, excited and apprehensive about making new friends, but she is paired with Jack, a hyperactive boy, who does not seem to fit in with anyone--except that they share a love of animals, which draws them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LORBrauner, Barbara.
Summary: "Lacey Unger-Ware has broken one of the Fairy Godmother rules, and if she doesn't help fulfill Martin Shembly's wish, there will be a chilly magical price to pay"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRAOrmsbee, Katie.
Summary: Homeschooler Stevie Hart meets Max, a strange boy who is obsessed with death, but what starts off as fun together begins spiraling downward when Stevie's diabetes sabotages her fumbling romance with Max, and her best friend, Sanger, announces she is moving out of state.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ORMCavanaugh, Nancy J.
Summary: Homeschooled by her mechanic-environmentalist father, eleven-year-old Rachel "Ratchet" Vance records her efforts to make friends, save a park, remember her mother, and find her own definition of "normal."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CAVReynolds, Jason
Summary: Sunny, the Defenders' best runner, only runs for his father, who blames Sunny for his mother's death, but with his coach's help Sunny finds a way to combine track and field with his true passion, dancing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2018
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Summary: Eleven-year-old Makeda dreams of meeting her African American mother, while coping with serious problems in her white adopted family, a cross-country move, and being homeschooled.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2019
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Summary: The farmer's daughter: Sarah is a home-schooled fifteen-year-old girl recently transplanted by her somewhat oblivious parents to rural Montana, who is learning that the world is larger than her fundamentalist mother wants her to know. Brown Dog redux: Brown Dog is killing time in Toronto where he's fled to save his adopted daughter, Berry, from being locked in an institution. Games of night: A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2010
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Summary: "The boy from BUILDING OUR HOUSE takes us through a typically boisterous homeschooling day with his big family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2015
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Summary: When Hazel, who has always been home schooled, gets a summer job pulling ivy in a local park, she discovers her fellow workers are more diverse--in race, ethnicity, class, and experience--than she has ever encountered before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roar 2019
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Summary: After contracting measles with devastating consequences, sixteen-year-old Juniper Jade sues her anti-vaccination parents, hoping she can have a more normal life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REIAndrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
Summary: "When former teacher Paula Eden adopts Faith and Trevor, she is astounded by their natural intelligence and decides to homeschool them to nurture their brilliance. But as the years go on, Faith and Trevor itch for more independence. When Faith sets her sights on a handsome young man visiting from out of town, Paula grows increasingly desperate to preserve her small family and her plans for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEOrmsbee, Kathryn
Summary: "Eleven-year-old homeschooled Katie experiences the ups and downs of growing up and 6th grade--from bad haircuts and friendship breakups to new experiences, new friends, and a new understanding of her OCD"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2022
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Summary: Joey tries to keep his life from degenerating into total chaos when his mother sends him to be home-schooled with a hostile blind girl, his divorced parents cannot stop fighting, and his grandmother is dying of emphysema.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002
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Summary: Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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Summary: Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television, tasted a pizza, or even heard of a wedgie. But when his grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a guidance counselor and attend the local middle school. While Cap knows a lot about tie-dyeing and Zen Buddhism, no education could prepare him for the politics of public school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2007
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KORMcAnulty, Stacy
Summary: A lightning strike made Lucy, twelve, a math genius but, after years of homeschooling, her grandmother enrolls her in middle school and she learns that life is more than numbers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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Summary: After his hippie grandmother ends up in the hospital, Cap Anderson is forced to leave the commune where he is homeschooled and attend Claverage Middle School, where his odd looks and behavior make him the target of bullies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007