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2) Allegedly
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Mary, a teenager living in a group home, becomes pregnant, authorities take another look at the crime for which Mary was convicted when she was nine years old.
3) Raybearer
Author
Series
Raybearer volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Raised in isolation, Tarisai yearns for the closeness she could have as one of the Crown Prince's Council of 11, but her mother, The Lady, has magically compelled Tarisai to kill the Crown Prince.
Author
Series
Hazel Wood volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the strange bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate - the Hazel Wood - Alice learns how bad her luck can really get. Her mother is stolen away - by a figure who claims to come from the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother's stories...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga's role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken,...
7) Mosquitoland
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she learns that her mother is sick in Ohio, Mim confronts her demons on a thousand-mile odyssey from Mississippi that redefines her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane. --Provided by publisher.
8) The possible
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A podcaster stirs up seventeen-year-old Kaylee's memories of her birth mother, who is infamous for alleged telekinetic ability and for murdering her own son.
10) Not even bones
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Nita's mother hunts monsters and, after Nita dissects and packages them, sells them online, but when Nita follows her conscience to help a live monster escape, she is sold on the black market in his place.--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When her perfectly planned summer of quality time with her parents, her serious boyfriend, and her Bible camp unravels and long-hidden family secrets emerge, Lucy must figure out what she is made of and what grace really means.
12) Our last echoes
Author
Publisher
Viking Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Lured by mysterious forces back to her childhood home, Sophia investigates the unsolved disappearances of several community members, including the mother who saved her from a near-drowning.
13) Freedom flight
Author
Series
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Paige struggles with the reintroduction of her mother--and her pain pill habit--into the household after she's been deployed numerous times overseas. At first grateful to have her home, Paige grows resentful and begins to rebel. --
14) Starfish
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Kiko Himura yearns to escape the toxic relationship with her mother by getting into her dream art school, but when things do not work out as she hoped Kiko jumps at the opportunity to tour art schools with her childhood friend, learning life-changing truths about herself and her past along the way.
15) When
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Maddie Flynn cannot help but see the death date of everyone she meets or sees in a photograph or on-screen, and her alcoholic mother exploits this by having her do readings for money, but when Maddie predicts the death of a young boy, she becomes the center of an FBI investigation.
16) Infandous
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sephora, a surfer and artist who loves fairy tales and mythology, struggles with a secret so horrible she cannot speak it aloud, especially not to her beautiful, single mother, although they have always been unusually close.
17) The arsonist
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Molly Mavity and Pepper Yusef are dealing with their own personal tragedies when they are tasked by an anonymous person with solving the decades-old murder of Ava Dryman, an East German teenager whose diary was published after her death.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Teenage Bina runs away to New York City's Catherine House, a young women's residence in Greenwich Village with a tragic history and dark secrets, where she is drawn to her mysterious downstairs neighbor Monet.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Overweight sixteen-year-old Charlie yearned for her first kiss while her perfect best friend, Amelia, fell in love, so when she finally starts dating and learns the boy asked Amelia out first, she is devastated.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Committed to a mental hospital against her will for something she claims she did not do, Cassie O'Malley signs herself out against medical advice when she turns eighteen and tries to start over at college, until her estranged mother appears, throwing everything Cassie believes about herself into question.
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