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1) Fourth wing
Author
Series
Empyrean volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
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Description
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away ... because dragons don't bond to "fragile" humans....
3) Leaving time
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident when Jenna was only three years old. Refusing to believe that her mother would have abandoned her, Jenna pores over the pages of Alice's old journals, which yield few clues. Desperate to find the truth, Jenna enlists two allies in her quest: Serenity Jones, a psychic, and Virgil Stanhope, the jaded...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her at five years old. Now, having left her father behind in Chicago for dreams of art school and marriage to an ambitious young doctor, she finds herself with a child of her own. But her mother's absence and shameful memories of her past force her to doubt whether she could ever be capable of bringing joy and meaning into the life of her child, gifts her own mother never gave.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shelby Cooper, nearly eighteen, has been overprotected by her single mother all her life but after a car accident, Shelby's mother steals her away from the hospital, revealing that Shelby's father is not dead, but rather a violent man who promised to hunt them down.
10) As cool as I am
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
11) Alice Bliss
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
13) Demon chick
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jessica discovers that her mother, a charismatic presidential candidate, sold Jessica's soul to the devil in exchange for political power.
14) Buried
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When her alcoholic mother goes missing, seventeen-year-old Claudine begins to spin out of control, despite her attempts to impose order on every aspect of her life.
16) Even now
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Shane Galanter is ready to put down roots after years of searching. But is he making the right choice? Or is there a woman somewhere who remembers a love that hasn't faded with time? Lauren Gibbs is a successful international war correspondent who gave up on happily-ever-after years ago—when it was ripped away from her. So why is life so empty? Emily Baker is a college freshman raised by her grandparents, about to take her first internship as a...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Fending for herself in the wake of a chronically unemployed, dysfunctional mother, ten-year-old Evelyn Bucknow experiences feelings of confinement in their small Midwestern town and suffers the heartache of a first love.
18) Full ride
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After her father is convicted of embezzlement, Becca Jones, fourteen, and her mother flee Georgia for small-town Ohio but three years later she learns that his misdeeds may have jeopardized not just her future but also her life.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Lynn will do anything to protect her valuable water source, but the arrival of new neighbors forces her to reconsider her attitudes"--
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