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Author
Series
Singing river volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Lanie Belle Freeman, happy on the five-acre family homeplace in Fairhope, Arkansas, dreams of going to college and becoming a writer. Unfortunately her father launches a new business and her mother is expecting her fifth baby, just as the Great Depression begins.
2) Princess Mia
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
While Mia tries to get over breaking up with her boyfriend, she discovers a diary kept by a former princess of Genovia from the 1600s, the contents of which could change the fate of her country forever.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Miranda Evans, her two brothers, and their mother struggle for survival a year after the moon's collision with a meteor altered the climate forever, and while things become more difficult with the arrival of six more people, including her father and stepmother, a new disaster threatens to derail the new lives they have been trying to build.
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski. Two girls from very different backgrounds. Jillian is the only child of wealthy parents, while Lesley's from a working-class family. They become best friends in the turbulent '60s, but their circumstances, their choices--and their mistakes--take them in virtually opposite directions. Lesley stays in their Washington State hometown. She gets pregnant and marries young, living a life defined by the demands...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1995, c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Mary Lou grows up considerably during the summer while learning about romance, homesickness, death, and her cousin's search for his biological father.
Author
Series
Walk volume no. 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Alan Christoffersen has lost everything he loves. Searching for hope, Alan embarks on a walk across America. As he continues on his journey, he encounters many interesting people from whom he learns lessons about love, life, and loss.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Now nearly halfway through his trek, Alan Christoffersen walks from South Dakota to Memphis, Tennessee. He covers more than 800 miles on foot, but it's the people he meets along the way who give the journey its true meaning.
12) Cabin Fever
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Greg Heffley is in big trouble. School property has been damaged, and Greg is the prime suspect. But the crazy thing is, heâs innocent. Or at least sort of.
The authorities are closing in, but when a surprise blizzard hits, the Heffley family is trapped indoors. Greg knows that when the snow melts heâs going to have to face the music, but could any punishment be worse than being stuck inside with your family for the holidays?
The authorities are closing in, but when a surprise blizzard hits, the Heffley family is trapped indoors. Greg knows that when the snow melts heâs going to have to face the music, but could any punishment be worse than being stuck inside with your family for the holidays?
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
During a student exchange program, seventh-graders Ivy June and Catherine share their lives, homes, and communities, and find that although their lifestyles are total opposites they have a lot in common.
14) Twerp
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In Queens, New York, in 1969, twelve-year-old Julian Twerski writes a journal for his English teacher in which he explores his friendships and how they are affected by girls, a new student who may be as fast as Julian, and especially an incident of bullying.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Healing from the loss that has long plagued him grows harder for Seattle advertising executive Alan Christoffersen as a new crisis calls on friends old and new to help see him through yet another troubled time as he comes to the end of his journey and prepares to make a crucial choice.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When a fourteen-year-old baseball player catches mononucleosis, he discovers that keeping a journal and experimenting with poetry not only helps fill the time, it also helps him deal with life, love, and loss.
20) House arrest
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
While under house arrest for one year for stealing a wallet, young Timothy keeps free-verse notes on his life in a court-ordered journal as he deals with having a sick brother and tries to stay out of trouble.
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