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Author
Series
Life as we knew it volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the moon's gravitational pull increases, causing massive natural disasters on earth, Miranda and her family struggle to survive in a world without cities or sunlight, and wonder if anyone else in still alive.
2) Would you
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When her beloved sister, Claire, steps in front of a car and winds up in a coma, Nat's anticipated summer of working, hanging around with friends, and seeing Claire off to college is transformed into a nightmare of doctors, hospitals, and well-meanin
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A teenager in a large family that lives in a trailer yearns for love, approval, an escape from endless chores, and a chance to make something of herself. When a good and decent man, seven years her senior, falls in love with her, she realizes marria
4) Center field
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Mike lives for baseball and hopes to follow his idol into the major leagues one day, but he is distracted by a new player who might take his place in center field, an ankle injury, problems at home, and a growing awareness that something sinister is
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts the experiences of a spunky young girl, just eleven when the Civil War breaks out, as she watches her brothers go to war, helps care for her mentally ill father, and falls in love with a boy determined to be a soldier. Includes historical no
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Tired of the miserable life she lives, Mary Harold leaves her mother behind and moves back to Alabama and her grandmother, where she receives support and love and starts to gain confidence in herself and her abilities.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raised by an unstable father who keeps constantly on the move, Sam Border has long been the voice of his silent younger brother, Riddle, but everything changes when Sam meets Emily Bell and, welcomed by her family, the brothers are faced with normalcy for the first time.
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
At college in New York City, Janie Johnson, aka Jennie Spring, seems to have successfully left behind her past as "The face on the milk carton," but soon she, her families, and friends are pursued by a true-crime writer who wants their help in telling her kidnapper's tale.
9) Someday
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1938, fourteen-year-old Celie must cope with leaving her Enfield, Massachusetts, home and her life-long friend, Chubby, as the day approaches when the Swift River Valley will be flooded to create a reservoir for Boston.
10) The replacement
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
11) Rosie and Skate
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
New Jersey sisters Rosie, aged fifteen, and Skate, aged sixteen, cope differently with their father's alcoholism and incarceration, but manage to stay close to one another as they strive to lead normal lives and find hope for the future.
12) Winter town
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Evan and Lucy, childhood best friends who grew apart after years of seeing one another only during Christmas break, begin a romance at age seventeen but his choice to mindlessly follow his father's plans for an Ivy League education rather than becoming the cartoonist he longs to be, and her more destructive choices in the wake of family problems, pull them apart.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old London Lane forgets everything each night and must use notes to struggle through the day, even to recall her wonderful boyfriend, but she "remembers" future events and as her "flashforwards" become more disturbing she realizes she must learn more about the past lest it destroy her future.
14) Red glass
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Sophie has been frail and delicate since her premature birth, but discovers her true strength during a journey through Mexico, where the six-year-old orphan her family hopes to adopt was born, and to Guatemala, where her would-be boy
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In India, in 1941, when her father becomes brain-damaged in a non-violent protest march, fifteen-year-old Vidya and her family are forced to move in with her father's extended family and become accustomed to a totally different way of life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns
17) Maud: a novel
Author
Publisher
Penguin Teen Canada
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Presents an imagining of author Lucy Maud Montgomery's teenage life, focusing on her aspirations of becoming a writer amid tensions with her grandfather, and later with her stepmother when she moves out West.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Annabelle learns that her father shares something big--and surprising--in common with her new nonbinary friend, she begins to see herself, and her family, in a whole new light--
19) Prom
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Ash wants nothing to do with senior prom, but when disaster strikes and her desperate friend, Nat, needs her help to get it back on track, Ash's involvement transforms her life.
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When fifteen-year-old Xander and his family move into an old, abandoned house in the middle of a dense forest outside of a small California town, they discover that not only are some of the rooms portals into other places, but that malevolent forces are at work.
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