Each tiny spark by Cartaya, Pablo 

BTSB Prebound(Kokila, 2019)

BTSB #: 196168 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.4 MG RC: 4.2 3-5 Lexile: 680 F&P: V

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Father-daughter relationship - Fiction Attention deficit disorder - Fiction Family life - Georgia - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories Latinos (U.S.) - Fiction Georgia - Fiction

Summary: Sixth-grader Emilia Torres struggles with ADHD, her controlling abuela, her mother's work commitments, her father's distance after returning from deployment, evolving friendships, and a conflict over school redistricting.

Fantastic secret of Owen Jester by O'Connor, Barbara 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010)

BTSB #: 685630 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.7 MG RC: 4.7 3-5 Lexile: 770

Genres: Adventure Fiction Animals Family Life

Subjects: Adventure fiction Submersibles - Fiction Bullfrogs - Fiction Family life - Georgia - Fiction

Summary: After Owen captures an enormous bullfrog and has to release it, he and two friends try to use a small submarine that fell from a passing train to search for the frog in a pond while avoiding nosy Viola.

Genuine Sweet by Harkey, Faith 

BTSB Prebound(Clarion, 2015)

BTSB #: 419701 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
Lexile: 700

Genres: Fantasy Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Wishes - Fiction Magic - Fiction Family life - Georgia - Fiction Community life - Georgia - Fiction Georgia - Fiction

Summary: Genuine Sweet, twelve, of tiny, impoverished Sass, Georgia, inherited the ability to grant any wish except her own but with help from new friends, her life and town are improving until unexpected trouble arrives and Genuine learns the difference between wishing for a better life and building one.

Halfway to Harmony by O'Connor, Barbara 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2021)

BTSB #: 685609 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.8 MG

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Friendship - Fiction Family life - Georgia - Fiction Hot air balloons - Fiction Death - Fiction Brothers - Fiction Georgia - Fiction

Summary: Ten-year-old Walter Tipple is grieving his beloved older brother, Tank, when a sassy girl named Posey moves in next door and Banjo, a hot-air balloonist, sets the pair on an adventure.

Just south of home by Strong, Karen 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2019)

BTSB #: 861509 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.4 MG RC: 3.7 3-5 Lexile: 640

Genres: Family Life Multicultural Supernatural

Subjects: Family life - Georgia - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Ghosts - Fiction Supernatural - Fiction Georgia - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Sarah, her Chicago cousin Janie, brainy brother Ellis, and his best friend, Jasper, investigate a tragic event in their small Southern town's history.

Love like sky by Youngblood, Leslie C. 

BTSB Prebound(Disney/Hyperion, 2018)

BTSB #: 975781 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.1 MG RC: 4.2 3-5 Lexile: 610 HL

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Sisters - Fiction Stepfamilies - Fiction Sick - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Family life - Georgia - Fiction Georgia - Fiction

Summary: Eleven-year-old Georgie is still adjusting to leaving Atlanta for a small town, having a stepfather, and being unable to get close to her stepsister when her six-year-old sister, Peaches, suddenly becomes very ill.

Walking with Miss Millie by Bundy, Tamara 

BTSB Prebound(Nancy Paulsen, 2017)

BTSB #: 171661 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.9 MG RC: 5.2 3-5 Lexile: 790

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Family life - Georgia - Fiction Old age - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Deaf - Fiction People with disabilities - Fiction Moving - Fiction Georgia - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: After moving with her mother and deaf brother to Grandma's small Georgia town in the 1960s, Alice copes with feelings of isolation by befriending the elderly black woman who lives next door.