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Author
Series
Shadow children volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In a future where the law limits a family to only two children, third-born Luke has been in hiding for the entire twelve years of his life, until he enters boarding school under an assumed name and is forced to face his fears.
4) Wonder
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Told in text messages, middle-schooler Ava is having a really bad day: her parents are getting divorced, she has had a big argument with her best friends, and the charge on her cellphone is getting low; but things are about to get a lot worse because the lockdown alarm has just gone off, and there is an intruder in the school building.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"A friendless girl who has developed a knack for keeping her head down at school resists a red-headed newcomer who wants to make friends, before the two are paired for a class assignment that she hopes will secure her position on the debate team."--NoveList.
Author
Publisher
Thunderbolt Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In "Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns About Courage" Howard Binklow has his main character "Howard" face his fears and learn how to use his courage. This delightful tale depicts Howard facing the monsters under the bed, the dark, and the first day of school. All of these fears are exactly what young children face in their own lives. The reader can relate to the fears faced by Howard and they too can learn to work through the fear and develop the courage...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The pigeon must go to school, but frets about math, learning the alphabet, heavy backpacks, and what the teacher and other birds will think of him.
10) One perfect lie
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"One Perfect Lie is an emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will keep you guessing until you turn the very last page. On the surface, it tells the tale of the struggling single mother of a high-school pitcher, a shy kid so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son because he's being...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Enduring privation when Japan declares war on England, a teacher at a British missionary school in China is sent to a distant internment camp, where she provides support and instruction to incarcerated children taken from their parents.
China, December 1941. Elspeth Kent left England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China. Ten-year-old Nancy Plummer has always felt safe at Chefoo School, protected by her British status. When...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A.J. fears his plans for a fun summer vacation will be ruined when Andrea Young, the most annoying girl in his class, winds up staying in the beach house next to his family's.
13) Harbor me
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After Mary Margaret Kelly's father, an Air Force pilot, died when she was nine, Maggie's family moved from one city to the next. Her mother warned her to avoid risk at all cost. Forgoing the magic of first love with a high school boyfriend who was too wild to feel safe, Maggie sought out a predictable partner, a stable home, and a regular paycheck. When tragedy strikes her conventional suburban family, Maggie decides to face her fears. Her travels...
Author
Series
Junie B. Jones volume 8
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After hearing from a classmate at kindergarten that people have monsters under their beds, Junie B. Jones is afraid to go to sleep that night.
16) The war outside
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.
1944. The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Colorado-- until they were uprooted to dusty Texas, because of the places their parents once called home: Germany and Japan. At the high school in Crystal City, a "family internment...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When fearful seven-year-old Alvin Ho learns that his mother is expecting a baby, he develops a sympathetic pregnancy--adding to his worry about the burglar who is targeting Concord, Massachusetts.
18) The shark report
Author
Series
Benny McGee and the shark volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After learning about sharks in school, Benny McGhee is afraid to swim in the ocean but a great white shark follows him home and they quickly become friends.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Baby Owl takes his stuffed Owly out for a walk in the moonlit woods, he insists that he is not afraid of the other animals that keep popping up and making them jump.
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