Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
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 together, because of the rabbit.
5) Schooled
Author
Language
English
Description
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.
6) Sunny
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Sunny is the chillest dude on the Defenders, an elite middle school track team. Secretly though, Sunny thinks himself as a murderer because his mother died giving birth to him. And the way Sunny's dad treats him doesn't help; it seems the only thing Sunny can do right in his dad's eyes is win races. But Sunny has never liked running; he'd rather dance. So Coach helps Sunny discover a track event that encompasses the hard hits of hip-hop, the precision...
Author
Language
English
Description
Emilie Day believes in playing it safe: she's homeschooled, her best friend is her seizure dog, and she's probably the only girl on the Outer Banks of North Carolina who can't swim. Then Emilie's mom enrolls her in public school, and Emilie goes from studying at home in her pj's to halls full of strangers. To make matters worse, Emilie is paired with starting point guard Chatham York for a major research project on Emily Dickinson. She should be thrilled...
12) Devoted: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rachel Walker is devoted to God and her large family, but as her curiosity about the world her parents turned from grows and she finds that neither Calvary Christian Church nor her homeschool education has the answer she craves, she considers leaving her sheltered life, as an older sister did.
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
15) Going places
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Everyone had high expectations for Hudson Wheeler. His fourth grade teacher even wrote to his parents that Hudson was "going places." But everything went downhill after his father died on the battlefield of Iraq one year later. Now facing his senior year of high school without his two best friends by his side and with his teacher's letter still haunting him, Hudson seizes homeschooling as an opportunity to retreat from the world. What happen during...
17) Captain January
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orphaned Star is raised by a kindly lighthouse keeper, until the truant officer tries to take her away.
18) Growing pangs
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"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"--
19) Jess
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Jess McConnell travels to Belize and learns about the country, its archaeology, and even about herself.
20) A shot at normal
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A timely young adult novel about a teenage girl who sues her anti-vaccination parents after she contracts a disease that incurs devastating consequences.
After contracting measles with devastating consequences, sixteen-year-old Juniper Jade sues her anti-vaccination parents, hoping she can have a more normal life.
Didn't find it?
Didn't find it in the Minuteman Library Network? Request it from other Massachusetts library systems.
Can't find what you are looking for? Recommend it to your local library as a future purchase. Suggest a Purchase