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1) Check & mate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After chess led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory Greenleaf's focus is a dead-end job that keeps the lights on for her mother and sisters. When she plays in a charity tournament and wipes the board with current world champion Nolan Sawyer, the victory opens the door to sorely needed cash prizes. Mallory struggles to keep her family separated from the game, but she soon realizes that the games aren't only on the board. The...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Rafe Khatchadorian enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.
3) Ask the dark
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thriller about Billy Zeets, a 14-year-old semi-delinquent in a deadly tango with a killer. --Provided by publisher.
4) Luna
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Regan's life, which has always revolved around keeping her older brother Liam's transsexuality a secret, changes when Liam decides to start the process of "transitioning" by first telling his family and friends that he is a girl who was born in a boy's body.
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...
7) Okay for now
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him. As Doug struggles to be more than the "skinny thug" that his teachers and the police think him to be, he finds an unlikely ally in Lil Spicer; a fiery young lady who "smelled like daisies would smell if they were growing in a big field under a clearing sky after a rain." In Lil, Doug finds the...
10) 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.
11) When we collided
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Can seventeen-year-old Jonah save his family restaurant from ruin, his mother from her sadness, and his danger-seeking girlfriend Vivi from herself?
12) Train I ride
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Traveling from California to Chicago after her mother dies of a drug overdose and her grandmother of lung cancer, thirteen-year-old Rydr meets other passengers on the train and attempts to accept her own situation.
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.
15) Halfway normal
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old cancer survivor Norah struggles to fit in at middle school after two years of treatment, but she finds her voice with the help of new friend Griffin, who shares her love of mythology.
17) 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.
20) The one thing
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After losing her sight--and the future she dreamed of--seventeen-year-old Maggie meets the one person with the ability to help her see all the possibilities life still holds.
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