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Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.
2) Twisted
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.
4) The divide
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
When a murder suspect's body is found frozen in the ice of a remote mountain creek, the subsequent investigation poses unsettling questions about how a promising young woman from a loving family could engage in acts of killing and ecoterrorism.
5) Dark angel
Author
Publisher
Poseidon Press
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
Description
When she moves to Boston to live with her wealthy grandmother, Heaven believes that she has found a place to belong and an opportunity to make something of herself until she begins to realize the terrible truth beneath the glamorous facade of her grandmother's life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The Dunnes have set off on a ten day boat trip, a trip that hopefully will bring them closer together, despite the fact that the father, Stuart is staying behind on land. But only an hour into the trip they're already falling apart. The teenage daughter plans to drown herself, and the teenage boy is high on drugs. Ten-year-old Ernie is near catatonic. But their mother Anne, with the help of her brother-in-law Jeff, is insistent on pulling everyone...
7) High heat
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When sophomore Shane Hunter's father is arrested for money laundering at his Lexus dealership, the star pitcher's life of affluence and private school begins to fall apart.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1947, twelve-year-old Pattie Mae is sustained by her dreams of escaping Rich Square, North Carolina, and moving to Harlem when her Uncle Buddy is arrested for attempted rape of a white woman and her grandfather is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor.
10) As ever, Gordy
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When he and his younger sister move in with their older brother after their grandmother dies, thirteen-year-old Gordy finds himself caught between the boy he was when he lived with his abusive father and the boy his grandmother was helping him become.
11) The snow angel
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With their parents struggling to make ends meet, Lily and Ryan grow tired of always eating macaroni and cheese for supper and having their Grandma stay with them, but when Grandma hears their complaints she tells a story about the magic that snow angels can bring.
12) Brilliant
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Quinn struggles to maintain her image as a brilliant, good girl when her mother's major error at work leads to financial and legal troubles that turn Quinn's and her younger sisters' world upside-down.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1938, twelve-year-old William has already decided to leave home when his younger sister informs him that she and their brother and sister are going too, and right away, but complications arise when an acquaintance decides to "help" them.
16) Towers falling
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"While learning about September 11th, fifth grader Dèja (born after the attacks) realizes how much the events still color her world"--
Author
Series
Winning season volume 10
Publisher
Viking Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
As his own self-confidence grows, seventh-grader Dunk learns to be supportive both on and off the basketball court when his friend Jared goes through a difficult time, even though Jared's failure would provide Dunk more opportunities to prove himself.
18) Fallout
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
19) Heaven
Author
Series
Casteel Family volume 1
Publisher
Poseidon Press
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences of Heaven, one of the very poor Casteel children who are sold to different families by their father.
20) A swift pure cry
Author
Publisher
David Fickling
Pub. Date
c2007, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Coolbar, Ireland is a village of secrets and Shell, caretaker to her younger brother and sister after the death of their mother and with the absence of their father, is not about to reveal hers until suspicion falls on the wrong person.
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