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Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing

author: Blume, Judy
Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever increasing problem.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 439
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 470

The Night Swimmers

author: Byars, Betsy Cromer
With their mother dead and their father working nights, Retta tries to be mother to her two younger brothers but somehow things just don't seem to be working right.
FIC
year: 1990
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: single-parent family, brothers and sisters [X], siblings, single-parent families, large type books [X]

From The Mixed-up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

author: Konigsburg, E. L, E.l. Konigsburg
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 277
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700

Jacob Have I Loved

author: Paterson, Katherine
Filled with resentment over the attention showered upon her twin sister, and awaiting the day she can leave her town behind, young Louise meets a wise old sea captain and begins learning how to let go of her anger.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 92
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 880

The Field Guide

author: Diterlizzi, Tony
When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 213
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600
subjects: fairies, brothers and sisters [X], single-parent families, siblings, large type books [X], fantasy, fantasy fiction

Al Capone Does My Shirts

author: Choldenko, Gennifer
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 337
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600

The Sea Of Trolls

author: Farmer, Nancy
After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 63
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670

Rules

author: Lord, Cynthia
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, 12-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 510
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: autism, brothers and sisters [X], people with disabilities, large type books [X], siblings, physically handicapped

Gregor The Overlander

author: Collins, Suzanne
Eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world populated by humans, giant spiders, bats, cockroaches, and rats, but his anxiety to find his way home is quelled when he finds a prophecy that foretells of his role in the Underland's future.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 77
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
subjects: brothers and sisters [X], animals, missing persons, fantasy, siblings, large type books [X]

A Wrinkle In Time

author: L'engle, Madeleine
Although he has been missing for several years and the entire town thinks her father has abandoned her family, Meg steadfastly believes the best and protects her younger brother, Charles Wallace, from the brunt of the rumors and taunting.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 488
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740

The Blue Djinn Of Babylon

author: Kerr, Philip
Twelve-year-old twins Philippa and John have more adventures when they become involved in an international adventure involving the Blue Djinn, the supreme arbiter of all djinn.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 940
subjects: genies, magic, twins, brothers and sisters [X], jinn, large type books [X], large print books, siblings, fantasy fiction, fantasy

The Akhenaten Adventure

author: Kerr, Philip
When twelve-year-old twins Philippa and John discover that they are descended from a long line of djinn, their mother sends them away to their Uncle Nimrod, who takes them to Cairo where he starts to teach them about their extraordinary powers.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 59
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 900
subjects: genies, magic, twins, brothers and sisters [X], uncles, egypt, jinn, large type books [X], siblings, large print books

The Cobra King Of Kathmandu

author: Kerr, Philip
Twelve-year-old djinn twins Philippa and John agree to help Dybbuk discover who murdered his best friend, and are soon caught up in an around-the-world adventure in search of the evil leader of the Cult of the Nine Cobras and his invaluable Cobra King talisman.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 910
subjects: genies, magic, twins, brothers and sisters [X], kathmandu (nepal), large type books [X], siblings, large print books, nepal, jinn, fantasy, fantasy fiction

A Wind In The Door

author: L'engle, Madeleine
Charles Wallace, Meg Murry's six-year-old brother, finds himself in a struggle between life and death involving the dragons he saw in the vegetable garden.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 99
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: science fiction, brothers and sisters [X], dragons, fantasy, siblings, large type books [X], compact discs, audiobooks, fantasy fiction

My Side Of The Mountain

author: George, Jean Craighead, George, Jean, Jean George
This is a unique and exciting first person account of a modern boy's adventurous experiment in complete self-sufficiency.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 686
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810

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