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21) Runner
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Living with his alcoholic father on a broken-down sailboat on Puget Sound has been hard on seventeen-year-old Chance Taylor, but when his love of running leads to a high-paying job, he quickly learns that the money is not worth the risk.
Author
Series
Montmaray journals volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
On her sixteenth birthday in 1936, Sophia begins a diary of life in a fictional island country off the coast of Spain, where she is among the last descendants of an impoverished royal family trying to hold their nation together on the eve of the second World War.
23) Across the pond
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Moving to a Scottish castle allows seventh-grader Callie to escape friendship problems in San Diego, but finding new friends, even in the birding club an old journal inspires her to join, proves challenging.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Kennedy chose to pursue the boy of her dreams rather than attend an elite private school, but as their romance ends she gets a glimpse of the not-so-perfect life she might have had.
Author
Series
Montmaray journals volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
As Sophie FitzOsborne waits for word about her brother Toby, whose plane was shot down, it's raining bombs in London. Sophie tells of dances with soldiers and blackouts. But hope may be closer than the FitzOsbornes realize, and for Sophie, love may come with it.
Author
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Cordelia and her family move into the house they just inherited in Pennsylvania, a former insane asylum the locals call Hysteria Hall--unfortunately the house does not want defiant girls like Delia, so it kills her, and as she wanders thehouse, meeting the other ghosts and learning the dark secrets of the Hall, she realizes that she has to find a way to save her sister, parents, and perhaps herself.
27) Guitar notes
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Tripp, who plays guitar only for himself, and Lyla, a cellist whose talent has already made her famous but not happy, form an unlikely friendship when they are forced to share a practice room at their high school.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Rev Fletcher and Emma Blue meet, they both long to share secrets, his of being abused by his birth father, hers of her parents' failing marriage and an online troll who truly frightens her.
Author
Series
(Jennifer Lynn).Inheritance games volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught from the cradle to put family first. Now the great Tobias Hawthorne is dead and his family disinherited, but some lessons linger. When Grayson's half-sisters find themselves in trouble, he swoops in to do what he does best: take care of the problem--efficiently, effectively, mercilessly. And without getting bogged down in emotional entanglements. Jameson Hawthorne...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Summer, 1991. The people of Cuba are living in el periodo especial en tiempos de paz - the special period in times of peace. That's what the government insists that this era must be called, but the reality behind these words is starvation. Hunger has made Liana brave: she finds the courage to skip a summer of so-called volunteer farm labor, even though she risks government retribution. Amado also refuses to comply, so he wanders alone, trying to discover...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After learning that she is at risk of not being allowed to graduate, high school senior Olivia Perkins must find a way to make up her P.E. requirement without tipping off her big and nosy extended family--while also putting in appearances at the graduation parties filling her week.
32) Rain rising
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Rain is keeping a big secret from everyone around her: She's sad. All the time. Rain struggles with her image and feels inferior to her best friend, Nara. Not even her all-star student-athlete big brother (and personal superhero), Xander, can help Rain with her dark thoughts and low self-esteem. And when Xander becomes the victim of violence at a predominantly white university, Rain’s life and mind take a turn for the worse. But when her favorite...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In 1980, ten-year-old Anna and her parents finalize their immigration from Taiwan to California, and as she settles in to her new home, Anna is confronted by the stark difference between her dreams and her reality.
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Adam Moynihan's life used to be awesome. Straight As, close friends and a home life so perfect that it could have been a TV show straight out of the 50s. Then, his oldest brother died. Now, his fun-loving mom cries constantly, he and his remaining brother can't talk without fighting, and the father he always admired proved himself a coward by moving out when they needed him most. Jolene Timber's life is nothing like the movies she loves -- not the...
Author
Series
Wars of the realm volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tragedy and heartache seem to be waiting for Drew Carter at every turn, especially after his father's death in combat, but college offers Drew a chance to start over -- until an accident during a physics experiment leaves him blind and his genius friend, Benjamin Berg, missing. As his sight miraculously returns, Drew discovers that the accident has heightened his neuron activity, giving him skills and sight beyond the normal man. When he begins to...
36) Fourth dimension
Author
Publisher
Penguin Teen, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers, a Penguin Random House Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Emma has moved house with her ex-Marine mother and younger brother. It's a brand-new condo building, which explains the semi-regular power outages, as workers complete the units around them. So Emma isn't particularly concerned when the latest blackout hits just as they are preparing to leave town on a long weekend camping trip. But then the car won't start, and their cellphones appear dead -- and all the cars outside their building...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Raised in Japan, American-born tenth-grader Emma is disconcerted by a move to Massachusetts for her mother's breast cancer treatment, because half of Emma's heart remains with her friends recovering from the tsunami.
38) Hands
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Trev would do anything to protect his mom and sisters, especially from his stepdad. But his stepdad’s return stresses Trev - because when he left, he threatened Trev’s mom. Rather than live scared, Trev takes matters into his own hands, literally. He starts learning to box to handle his stepdad. But everyone isn’t a fan of his plan, because Trev’s a talented artist, and his hands could actually help him build a better future. And they’re...
39) What about Will
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Trace's relationship with his older brother Will become increasingly complicated after Will suffers a traumatic brain injury and becomes addicted to pain pills"--
40) Hummingbird
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Olive, who suffers from brittle bone disease and has been homeschooled all her life, finally attends school in person she soon discovers fitting in is not that easy, but if she can find the magical wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives nearby, and prove herself worthy, maybe her deepest wish will be granted.
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