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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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"Lily Jo McGrother, born Timothy McGrother, is a girl. But being a girl is not so easy when you look like a boy. Especially when you're in the eighth-grade. Norbert Dorfman, nicknamed Dunkin Dorfman, is bipolar and has just moved from the New Jersey town he's called home for the past thirteen years. This would be hard enough, but the fact that he is also hiding from a painful secret makes it even worse. One summer morning, Lily Jo McGrother meets...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When their mother's behavior changes and she starts to neglect her children, seventh-grader Cooper and his little sister take refuge in Inchland, an imaginary country inspired by deeds to one square inch of land that their grandfather gave them.
5) Rocky Road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Fashion-loving twelve-year-old Tess moves with her deaf younger brother and impulsive single mother to Schenectady, New York, where they open an ice-cream shop and lead a campaign for urban renewal.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her [stepbrother] Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel's bipolar disorder to spin out of control and forcing Suzette to confront her own demons"--
Author
Series
Notebooks trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Zeeta, a down-to-earth girl, spends years with her flighty mom traveling the world, but when they try to settle down in Mazunte, Mexico, where Zeeta's true love Wendell is interning as a nature photographer, Zeeta is convinced that Mazunte is going to be their home, until she and Wendell uncover more about her elusive father's past.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kass is trying to resist her manic-depressive father's attempts to make her try out for "The X Factor" while she also deals with her crush on the same older boy her best friend likes, her distant mother's mysterious comings and goings, and her younger brother's criminal activities.
10) The unquiet
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
When sixteen-year-old Rinn, who has bipolar disorder, and her mother move back to her mother's hometown in Ohio and settle in a house where the previous owner hanged herself, Rinn discovers that both the town and her mother have some uncomfortable secrets in their past and that the ghost that supposedly haunts the school seems to be out for revenge.
11) Nature Girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
Honey Santana - impassioned, willful, possibly bipolar, self-proclaimed "queen of lost causes" - has a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and dinnertime sales calls. She's taking rude, gullible Relentless, Inc., telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less-than-enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie - the fifteen-minute-famous girlfriend of a tabloid murderer - into the wilderness of Florida's Ten Thousand Islands for a gentle lesson...
12) Girl on the line
Author
Pub. Date
2021.]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Journey hadn't planned for a future, but when her suicide attempt fails she finds the life she never meant to live challenging in more ways than before: her parents don't trust her, her friends have moved on for their own good, her bipolar disorder is overwhelming. At odds with herself and lacking concrete goals, she begins volunteering at a local helpline, where she finds a community as strong yet broken as she is.
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Pub. Date
c2022.
Description
"Putting up a front and hiding her mental illness from her classmates is going to be the hardest thing high schooler Natalie Cordova has ever done. It's her senior year, and she's just been selected to present her artwork at a prestigious show. With the stress of performing on her shoulders, it doesn't help when Natalie notices a boy who makes her heart leap. And then there's fellow student Ella, who confronts Natalie about her summer car "accident"...
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