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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
For Leighton Barnes, home is two things. It's where she nurtures a deep, protective love for her two younger sisters and a mother who often seems frozen in place. But it's also where her father takes his temper violently out on Leighton's mother while the house itself magically and mysteriously absorbs all signs of the damage he inflicts. Leighton, who is applying to colleges, resists her attraction to a classmate as she chafes between extremes: her...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Finley Hart is sent to her grandparents' house for the summer, but her anxiety and overwhelmingly sad days continue until she escapes into her writings which soon turn mysteriously real and she realizes she must save this magical world in order to save herself.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Having been stood up for the prom the previous year, high school junior Nicolette works on a top ten list of things to do with her unworn dress while also trying to help her divorced parents and take care of her relationships with her best friend and with potential boyfriends.
45) Nothing special
Author
Series
Reinstein Brothers volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Continues the story of Wisconsin teenager and high school football player Felton Reinstein, how he relates to his friends Gus and Aleah and what he does when his little brother Andrew runs away on his way to orchestra camp.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of bestselling domestic fiction from such authors as Liane Moriarty, Jodi Picoult, and Anna Quindlen, a wrenching, deeply heartfelt novel about a husband and wife, a missing child, and the complicated family secrets that can derail even the best of marriages."--
Author
Series
Diary of a teenage girl. Maya volume 1
Publisher
Multnomah Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Maya keeps a journal the year following her aunt's death, in which she records her thoughts about her alcoholic and drug-addicted mother and her own feelings of depression, until she decides to give her heart to God.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Tamara dreams of the day when ten-year-old Muscle Man McGinty's constant lies catch up to him, but when an incredible event takes place in the summer of 1969, her outlook on life is altered in the most surprising way.
49) Peaches
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Three teenaged girls from very different backgrounds, thrown together to pick peaches in a Georgia orchard, spend a summer in pursuit of the right boy, the truest of friends, and the perfect peach.
50) Dig
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Five estranged cousins are lost in a maze of their family's tangled secrets. Their grandparents, former potato farmers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings, managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now they sit atop a million-dollar bank account-wealth they've refused to pass on to their adult children or their five teenage grandchildren. "Because we want them to thrive," Marla always says. But for the Hemmings cousins, "thriving"...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
No one will tell Oli why he and his mother are staying with relatives in the country without his father, but when he finds a secret of his own, that lurking in the attic is Eren, a creature hungry for stories, Oli begins to make sense of what is happening with his family and faces the choice of learning the truth or abandoning himself to Eren's world forever.
Author
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Fourth grader Wren Jo Byrd questions lots of things--both little and big--when her parents decide to get a divorce, and learns a lot about the true meaning of family, home, and friendship"--
53) Apple and Rain
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When her imagined perfect life with her estranged mother begins to unravel, fourteen-year-old Apple finds comfort in reading and writing poetry.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When his mother leaves to live with another man, nine-year-old Jeremy faces his own pain and loss, his father's depression and sister's distance, the pity of friends and strangers, and his father's remarriage two years later, finding solace in fishing and his artwork.
55) Zhara
Author
Series
Guardians of dawn volume 1
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Forbidden from practicing magic and burdened by her responsibilities, Jin Zhara's life takes an unexpected turn when she becomes involved with the Guardians of Dawn, a group dedicated to fighting a demonic plague that is corrupting magicians.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Lucy Peevey, twelve, and her best friend, Cam, are perfecting the robot that could win a competition, a scholarship, and a way out of Sunnyside Trailer Park when Lucy's mother goes off her medication and her manic-depressive disorder goes out of control.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Barricaded in Cortege High with five other teens while zombies try to get in, Sloane Price observes her fellow captives become more unpredictable and violent as time passes although they each have much more reason to live than she has.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Between school and Al-Anon meetings, Jenna helps Mrs. Gladstone cope with escalating problems that result from the merger of Gladstone Shoes with Shoe Warehouse Corporation, while managing a new employee with a shoplifting record.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Leah Roberts has been secretly watching sasquatches in the woods behind her house for years, but when she notices an enigmatic teenage boy living among them, her complicated family life starts to unravel.
60) Just my luck
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Since entering fourth grade, Benny Barrows worries that he will never be good at anything, that he is responsible for an accident that sent his father to the hospital, and that his attempts at winning a school contest will never be noticed.
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