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Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Whiskey and Charlie might have come from the same family, but they'd tell you two completely different stories about growing up. Whiskey is everything Charlie is not--bold, daring, carefree--and Charlie blames his twin brother for always stealing the limelight, always getting everything, always pushing Charlie back. By the time the twins reach adulthood, they are barely even speaking to each other ... When Charlie hears that Whiskey has been in a...
Author
Series
Pain and the Great One volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Revisits the sometimes challenging relationship between a six-year-old (The Pain) and his eight-year-old sister (The Great One) through seven chapters featuring such events as learning to ride a bicycle, having a birthday party, and dog-sitting.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Cal has always lived in the shadow of his brother, Frank, a complicated narcissist who was doted upon by their mother and beloved by the girls in their hometown-including Cal's own girlfriends. In an attempt to escape Frank's insidious presence, Cal pursues a different kind of freedom in the world's wild spaces, prospecting for gold and precious minerals everywhere from the heat of the desert at the Mexican border to the Alaskan chill to the suffocating...
Author
Series
Rotten Richie tales volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After losing running, climbing, throwing, and burping competitions to her obnoxious older brother, a young girl makes a wish on a falling star.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After fifty years of marriage, Stan and Joy Delaney are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. One night a stranger named Savannah knocks on Stan and Joy's door. She says she chose their house because it looked the friendliest. And since Savannah is bleeding after a fight with her boyfriend, the Delaneys are more than happy to give her the small kindness she sorely needs. If only that was all she wanted. Later, everyone will...
Author
Series
Heavenstone volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The Heavenstone sisters live with their mother and father in a grand old mansion in bluegrass Kentucky. Semantha, the younger and prettier one, is afraid of so many things -- darkness, strange noises, mysterious whispers in the night. But nothing frightens her more than her sister, Cassie. She is older and wiser, and always telling Semantha what to do, what to wear, and how to behave around those wicked boys at school. Semantha has her eye on one...
Author
Series
Clementine volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Third-grader Clementine tries to adjust to the news that her perfect family of four is adding a new brother or sister.
Author
Series
Chester Raccoon (Picture books) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Chester Raccoon is worried that his mother does not have enough love for both him and his new baby brother.
10) Go, Jade, go!
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Jade does well in a track meet, her entire family is excited except Justin, who later confesses to their older brother Jordan that he wishes he were good at something for which people would cheer.
11) Sister spirit
Author
Series
Go girl! (Feiwel and Friends) volume 3
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Given a very bad, very short haircut by her jealous older sister, Hannah, nine-year-old Cassie seeks revenge by making it seem as if Hannah's closet is haunted.
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Museum of Natural History receives their pilfered gem collection back ... ground down to dust. Diogenes, the psychotic killer who stole them in Dance of Death, is throwing down the gauntlet to both the city and to his brother, FBI Agent Pendergast, who is currently incarcerated in a maximum security prison. To quell the PR nightmare of the gem fiasco, the museum decides to reopen the Tomb of Senef. An astounding Egyptian temple, it was...
16) Mallory vs. Max
Author
Series
Mallory McDonald books volume 3
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Mallory feels left out when her older brother, Max, gets a dog that becomes the center of attention.
Author
Series
Pepper party volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Annie wants to adopt a Chihuahua named Azzie, but her siblings all want less typical pets.
Author
Publisher
Cavendish Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The fearsome knight Horace tries to prove to his niece that he is as good as his brother, the King, while all she really wants is someone to help her stop missing her father.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
First Phineas and Ferb accidentally create a giant gelatin monster, and then they go to England to visit their grandparents, where Candace tries to find proof of her brothers' activities, while Agent P copes with his own problems.
20) Bingo
Author
Series
Julia and Louise novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two elderly widows, Sulia and Louise Hunsenmeir, fight over Ed Tutweiler while Julia's daughter, Nickel, faces her own battles to save the local newspaper from corporate takeover and understand her own sexuality.
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