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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Written by a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, this is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within. With disarming honesty and...
2) Son
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Double Take is a fact-packed look at how science is tackling stereotypes. In the intermediate grades, students are likely to encounter and recognize all kinds of stereotypes. Our brains constantly use categories to sort and label the things (and people) around us -- both with good results and frightening ones. This book explores how we all use stereotypes and how science can help us to build more equal societies, where fewer stereotypes exist and...
4) Alphas
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Select teenaged girls are invited to join the exclusive and futuristic Alpha Academy, where they must compete feverishly to establish and maintain their status among their extremely competitive peers.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the exceptionally people-pleasing Sam spends a summer as a counselor-in-training, she learns how to say no, to stand up for herself, and what it feels like to have a crush on a great guy.
6) Raven's gate
Author
Series
Gatekeepers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.
7) Impostors
Author
Series
Impostors volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Deception. Risk. Betrayal. Redemption. Master storyteller Scott Westerfeld is at the top of his game, and back to his most famous realm. Frey and Rafi are inseparable... two edges of the same knife. But Frey's very existence is a secret. Frey is Rafi's twin sister--and her body double. Their powerful father has many enemies, and the world has grown dangerous as the old order falls apart. So while Rafi was raised to be the perfect daughter, Frey has...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Boooks
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents information about adolescent depression, including the signs of depression, an explanation of its causes, and advice on different strategies adolescents can use to overcome it.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Shaken, Tebow talks about what he's learned along the way, building confidence in his identity in God, not the world. This moving book also features practical wisdom from Scripture and insights gained from others who have impacted Tebow in life-changing ways.
11) Merrow
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Enduring whispers about her absent mother's alleged merrow origins after her father drowns, twelve-year-old Neen questions her identity as she becomes increasingly torn between the worlds of the sea and her island home.
12) Sophie someone
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Sophie Nieuwenleven is sort of English and sort of Belgian. She and her family came to live in Belgium when she was only four or five, but she's fourteen now and has never been sure why they left England in the first place. She loves her international school, adores her friend Comet, and is protective of her little brother, Hercule. But it's hard to feel carefree when her mom never leaves the apartment - ordering groceries online and blasting music...
13) The radiant road
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After nine years Clare Macleod and her father are finally returning to their old home in Ireland, a house by the sea, with a yew tree growing inside it, a tree with its roots in both the human and fairy world--and soon Clare, who has always been able to sense the "Strange," meets the boy Finn, and discovers that she must battle against the forces of evil to restore order to both worlds.
14) Even more fantastic failures: true stories of people who changed the world by falling down first
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
There is a lot of pressure in society for kids to succeed, but failing is a part of learning how to be a successful person. In his teaching career, the author saw the stress and anxiety his students suffered, whether it was over grades, fitting in, or simply getting things right the first time. This book is the second installment in the author's personal campaign to show kids it's okay to fall down or make a mistake, just so long as you try, try again!...
15) The fall
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In writing in his journal about middle school classmate Morgan Mallen's suicide from bullying, Sam explores whether he was a friend, or one of the bullies who ignored her at school and tormented her online.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"There is a lot of pressure in today's society for kids to succeed, but failing is a part of learning how to be a successful person. In his teaching career, Luke Reynolds saw the stress and anxiety his students suffered over grades, fitting in, and getting things right the first time. Fantastic Failures was created for these students to learn that their mistakes and failures do not define their whole lives, but help them grow into their potential....
17) Dark souls
Author
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Miranda Tennant arrives in York, England, with her parents and brother, trying to recover from the terrible accident that killed her best friend, and while in the haunted city she falls in love for the first time as two boys, one also suffering from a great loss and the other a ghost, fight for her attentions.
18) Mirror's edge
Author
Series
Impostors volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Raised to be her twin sister Rafia's body double and bodyguard, Frey now has a new face and body. With her lover Col, she is determined to return to Shreve to rescue Boss X, a friend and ally in the rebellion of the free cities; Frey's father is the ruthless ruler of Shreve. Frey is troubled by things even beyond the dangers of her mission: confusion over her own identity, guilt over having killed her brother (even if he was trying to kill Rafia at...
19) Smiles to go
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Will Tuppence's life has always been ruled by science and common sense but in ninth grade, shaken up by the discovery that protons decay, he begins to see the entire world differently and gains new perspective on his relationships with his little sister and two closest friends.
Author
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
George has always felt burdened by his princely duties, and even more by the need to hide the magic through which he speaks with animals, but when he is betrothed to the strange princess of a neighboring kingdom, his secret, and the persecution of people like himself, must come to an end.
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