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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible in her family, where grumpy eighteen-year-old Sarah is working at the family restaurant, fourteen-year-old Holden is struggling with school bullies and his emerging homosexuality, and adorable, three-year-old Charlie is always the center of attention, and when tragedy strikes, the fragile bond holding the family together is stretched almost to the breaking point.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The morning after her eighteenth birthday, Andrea McNulty wakes up in a motel room, covered in blood and unable to remember what happened the previous night, only to discover that her parents were brutally attacked and she is the main suspect.
The morning after her eighteenth birthday, Andrea McNulty wakes up in a motel room, covered in blood and unable to remember what happened the previous night. According to the news, Andi's parents were brutally...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sydney's charismatic older brother, Peyton, has always been the center of attention in the family but when he is sent to jail, Sydney struggles to find her place at home and the world until she meets the Chathams, including gentle, protective Mac, who makes her feel seen for the first time.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place - he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings - such as the ability to Fade so mere mortals cannot see him. Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead? And then there...
5) The fort
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Five middle schoolers find a fully stocked bomb shelter constructed decades ago in the local woods by an eccentric tycoon and lost until a hurricane exposes the entrance. So, how to keep the hideout secret from interfering grown-ups--and, more particularly, from scary teen psychopath, Jaeger Devlin.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
For a responsible sixteen-year-old, Michael Wilson has a lot of problems--his father was killed in Afghanistan in 2005, his overworked and overprotective mother will not talk about their situation, and does not want him playing football, and he has suddenly started to receive letters that his father wrote before his death.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Senior year at high school is going to be hard enough for Rooney Harris, desperate to get into a good college and away from her small town, but things get tougher when she ends up as the sole support for herself and her younger brother because of their mother's obsession with the Next World Society, a cult that believes they will be whisked away to a new world paradise on November 17.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Toby, a prematurely gray-haired Pittsburgh Pirates fan and baseball card collector, tries to cope with his brother's drug use, his father's absence, and his mother dating Stanley the Food King.
Author
Series
Inheritance games volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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...
11) I'm not her
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When popular, sporty sister, Kristina, is diagnosed with cancer, her younger, brainy sister, Tess, is thrown into new roles as she becomes the center of the popular crowd and must be the strong one in her family.
12) Solo
Author
Publisher
Blink
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Blade endeavors to resolve painful issues from his past and navigate the challenges of his former rockstar father's addictions, scathing tabloid rumors, and a protected secret that threatens his own identity.
13) Royal wedding
Author
Series
Princess Diaries (Adult) volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The first adult installment of the Princess Diaries series "follows Princess Mia and her Prince Charming as they plan their fairy tale wedding--but a few poisoned apples could turn this happily-ever-after into a royal nightmare"--Page 4 of cover.
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...
15) Red Fox Road
Author
Publisher
Puffin Canada
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Francie and her parents are on a spring road trip: driving from British Columbia, Canada, to hike in the Grand Canyon. Her mom and dad are fighting because her dad is relying on GPS, while her mom wants to follow a (paper) map. When the GPS leads them down an old logging road, disaster strikes. Their truck hits a rock and wipes out the oilpan. They are stuck in the middle of nowhere. Francie can't help feeling a little excited, as she'd often imagined...
16) Wild beauty
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
For nearly a century, the Nomeolvides women have tended the grounds of La Pradera, hiding a terrible legacy, until mysterious Fel arrives and Estrella helps him explore his dangerous past.
Author
Publisher
Kingswell
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Quiet Emily's sociable and daring best friend, Sloane, has disappeared leaving nothing but a random list of bizarre tasks for her to complete, but with unexpected help from popular classmate Frank Porter, Emily gives them a try.
19) Devoted: a novel
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Rachel Walker is devoted to God and her large family, but as her curiosity about the world her parents turned from grows and she finds that neither Calvary Christian Church nor her homeschool education has the answer she craves, she considers leaving her sheltered life, as an older sister did.
20) Raised by wolves
Author
Series
Raised by wolves novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
A girl raised by werewolves must face the horrors of her past to uncover the dark secrets that the pack has worked so hard to hide.
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