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English
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Samantha Bennett's life was a nightmare.
Dealing with the untimely death of her mother and the abuse of her cruel father was too much for teenager Samantha Bennett to handle. But, for the first time in her life, this courageous, rodeo-riding young woman is finally learning what it means to be loved and to be part of a real family. Samantha is more than ready to begin a new chapter of her life. But when her past comes back to haunt her, will anyone...
7) Zombie Tag
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
In the months since Wil Lowenstein's older brother Graham died, Wil has spent most of his time playing a game he invented but when he finds a way to bring Graham and others back from the dead, fighting zombies is suddenly no longer a game.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1888 in Prairie Hill, Nebraska, a few months after barely surviving a deadly blizzard that has killed two of her brothers, fourteen-year-old Hannah goes to work at the home of a wealthy widow with progressive social ideas, where she finds Isaac, w
10) Flying lessons
Author
Publisher
Cricket Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1937, when LaMarr's glamorous mother is lost in a plane crash and she goes to live with her aunt and uncle, it takes the thirteen-year-old some time to reconcile herself to the idea that her mother has not gone to Hollywood to become a movie star.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In "conversations" with her dead mother, fifth-grader Livvy records her adjustment to living in Baltimore with a woman she had never met, and she comes to see the wisdom of her mother's choice as she gets to know the woman's large, loving family.
12) Candy bombers
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
In 1948 Berlin, Germany, while trying to survive the Russian blockade of the city and also grieving for his father and sister who were killed in the war, thirteen-year-old Erich is befriended by a United States airman.
13) Poppy and Ereth
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a long, hard winter in Dimwood forest, Poppy the deer mouse finds new adventure thrust upon her while rescuing Ereth the porcupine from the mud.
14) Claim to fame
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Lindsay, a former child star whose career ended when she developed the ability to hear what anyone, anywhere says about her and apparently suffered a nervous breakdown, comes to see this as an asset when, after her father's death, sh
15) Flip-flop girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Uprooted following the death of their father, nine-year-old Vinnie and her five-year-old brother, Mason, cope in different ways--one in silence--but both with the help of Lupe, the flip-flop girl.
16) Confetti girl
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After the death of her mother, Texas sixth-grader Lina's grades and mood drop as she watches her father lose himself more and more in books, while her best friend uses Lina as an excuse to secretly meet her boyfriend.
Author
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In journal entries to her mother, a gifted artist who died suddenly, thirteen-year-old Georgia McCoy reveals how her life changes after she receives an anonymous gift membership to a nearby art museum.
18) Slob
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed.
19) Second wind
Author
Series
Golden filly volume 8
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Although still grieving her father's death and facing ominous threats, Trish helps petition the Portland City Council to keep open a local thoroughbred horse racing track embroiled in rumors of corruption.
20) Pencilvania
Author
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Zora finds herself transported into a fantastic world where all of her drawings have come to life.
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