Blended by Draper, Sharon M. 

Paperback(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2020)

BTSB #: 290487 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4 MG RC: 3.4 3-5 Lexile: 610 F&P: Y

Genres: Family Life Multicultural

Subjects: Racially mixed people - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Divorce - Fiction Family life - Ohio - Fiction Ohio - Fiction

Summary: Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.

Blended by Draper, Sharon M. 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2018)

BTSB #: 290490 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4 MG RC: 3.4 3-5 Lexile: 610 F&P: Y

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Racially mixed people - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Divorce - Fiction Family life - Ohio - Fiction Ohio - Fiction

Summary: Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.

Blended by Draper, Sharon M. 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2018)

BTSB #: P05986 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Racially mixed people - Fiction Racially mixed families - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Divorce - Fiction Family life - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Ohio - Fiction

Summary: Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.

Drop of hope by Calabrese, Keith 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic, 2019)

BTSB #: 180986 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.2 MG RC: 5.3 3-5 Lexile: 810 F&P: Y

Genres:

Subjects: Wishing wells - Fiction Wishes - Fiction Secrets - Fiction Helping behavior - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories Ohio - Fiction

Summary: Times are tough in the small town of Cliffs Donnelly, Ohio (sarcastically called If Only) especially for some of the kids at Rod Serling Middle School, but then an old dry well suddenly begins to grant wishes, or so it seems--three of the students, Ernest Wilmette, Ryan Hardy, and Lizzy MacComber, know what is happening (but do they really?), because sometimes a good deed can make magic happen.

I am number four by Lore, Pittacus 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2010)

BTSB #: P01240 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres:

Subjects: Extraterrestrial beings - Fiction High schools - Fiction Ohio - Fiction

Summary: In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.

I am number Four : the lost files: hidden enemy by Lore, Pittacus 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2014)

BTSB #: P02572 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Extraterrestrial beings - Fiction High schools - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Ohio - Fiction

Summary: A collection of three action-packed novellas. Five's Legacy: Five's early years on Earth when he was just a young teen on the run, discovering his abilities and making the wrong kind of friends. Return to Paradise: the aftermath of the Mog attack on Ohio and Mark James's struggles between returning to a normal life and helping John Smith. Five's Betrayal: Five joins the Mogadorian ranks and must demonstrate his allegiance.

M.C. Higgins, the great by Hamilton, Virginia 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster, 1999)

BTSB #: 416160 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.4 MG RC: 6.2 6-8 Lexile: 560 F&P: X

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Family life - Ohio - Fiction Ohio - Fiction

Summary: As a slag heap creeps closer to his home in the Ohio Hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.

Revenge of the bully : a how to beat the bully novel by Starkey, Scott 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2014)

BTSB #: 844399 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.3 MG RC: 3.4 3-5 Lexile: 600

Genres: Sports

Subjects: Middle schools - Fiction School stories Bullying - Fiction Football - Fiction Heroes - Fiction Humorous fiction Ohio - Fiction

Summary: Rodney Rathbone tries to live up to his reputation as a reluctant hero when he earns a spot on his school football team--along with his arch-nemesis--while trying to regain his girlfriend Jessica's trust and survive his mother's new job as the restaurant reviewer for a local paper.

Time pieces : the book of times by Hamilton, Virginia 

Audio Book(Playaway Digital Audio :, 2007)

BTSB #: P00119 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-11   


Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Family life - Ohio - Fiction Cousins - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Country life - Ohio - Fiction Collies - Fiction Dogs - Fiction Ohio - Fiction

Summary: Valena, living in rural Ohio with her family and her dog, shares exciting adventures with her cousin Melinda, including seeing the aurora borealis, surviving a tornado, and going to an amazing circus.

Very rich by Horvath, Polly 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2018)

BTSB #: 464516 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.3 MG RC: 4.6 3-5 Lexile: 750

Genres: Supernatural Family Life

Subjects: Family life - Ohio - Fiction Eccentrics and eccentricities - Fiction Poverty - Fiction Wealth - Fiction Supernatural - Fiction Ohio - Fiction

Summary: Ten-year-old Rupert, from a very large, very poor family, accidently becomes part of an eccentric rich family's life beginning at Christmas, and soon sees that wealth is not everything.

What happened on Fox Street by Springstubb, Tricia 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2011)

BTSB #: P01383 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-11   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Neighborhoods - Fiction Father-daughter relationship - Fiction Best friends - Fiction Ohio - Fiction

Summary: Fox Street means everything to Mo Wren, who is nearly eleven, and so she is very upset when a land developer offers to buy her father's house, especially since she has not yet found the fox she is sure lives in the nearby ravine.