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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Devastated when her parents separate, twelve-year-old Rebecca must move with her mother from Baltimore to Gran's house in Atlanta, where Rebecca discovers an old breadbox with the power to grant any wish--so long as the wished-for thing fits in the breadbox.
5) Wild girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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.
6) Shark dog!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Half-shark, half-dog Shark Dog ends up on the boat of a boy and his explorer dad, and becomes their pet. But when he gets homesick, he'll have to decide whether to go back to Shark Island or stay in his new home.
7) My tree
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A boy makes a connection with a plum tree after moving to a new home"--
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Owen and Eleanor volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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Eight-year-old Eleanor is very unhappy when her family moves into a duplex, so she asks her new neighbor, seven-year-old Owen, to help her escape to her old house.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When young Lucy travels from Latin America to visit relatives in Ohio, she is very homesick until she realizes that the only way to communicate with her cousin's frisky dog is to learn to speak English.
Sumario en español: Cuando la niña Lucy viaja desde América Latina a Ohio para visitar a los parientes, ella es muy nostálgica hasta enterarse que la única manera de comunicarse con el perro juguetón de su primo es aprender hablar inglés.
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"Mónica and Hannah are school kids in the big city. Together, they have formed the Homesick Club, since they are both from far away. Mónica misses the family of hummingbirds that she and her grandmother would feed in her backyard in Bolivia every day. Hannah misses the sunshine and the tiny tortoise that lived near her house in Israel. When a new teacher, Miss Shelby, arrives from Texas, the girls discover that she misses her home, too, especially...
13) Tiger skin rug
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"Lal and his brother Dilip miss home. They don't like drizzle, midges, or the tiger skin rug in their creepy new house. All they want is to leave Scotland and go back to India. But that's before they make friends with Jenny, the girl next door--and before the tiger skin rug comes back to life. The tiger tells them it will take them home in return for their help, but it must first fulfill an old promise. An adventure story in which the young protagonists...
14) A bit of Earth
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"Difficult child Maria Latif arrives in Long Island from Pakistan to live with the strange Clayborne family where she discovers an off-limits garden that becomes a place where she finally feels at home"--
Growing up in Pakistan, Maria Latif has been bounced between reluctant relatives for as long as she can remember--first because of her parents' constant travel, and then because of their deaths. Maria has always been a difficult child, and it never...
15) The quiet place
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A little girl moves to the United States from Mexico with her family and writes letters to her aunt in Mexico about her new life.
17) Sugar in milk
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Description
"A young immigrant girl joins her aunt and uncle in a new country that is unfamiliar to her. She struggles with loneliness, with a fierce longing for the culture and familiarity of home, until one day, her aunt takes her on a walk. As the duo strolls through their city park, the girl's aunt begins to tell her an old myth, and a story within the story begins. A long time ago, a group of refugees arrived on a foreign shore. The local king met them,...
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