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Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Tells, in their separate voices and at a space of fourteen years, of Emmy, whose baby has been stolen, and Sophie, a teenager who defies her nomadic, controlling mother by making friends with a neighbor boy and his elderly aunts.
102) Gotcha!
Author
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
It's 'bead season' at Slippery Rock High. This year the bead-snatching grad game called Gotcha has been banned as an official school activity because the teachers have decided to put an end to what they consider a dangerous tradition. The game goes underground, and more grads than ever are participating. The game quickly spins out of control, and Katie finds herself losing friends and falling victim to her classmates' obsession with Gotcha. She...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, alternate telling how race, wealth, weight, and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but influential classmate, even as they are uncovering a long-kept secret about themselves.
105) Love, Lucas
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Grieving for her older brother Lucas, Oakley Nelson agrees to spend a few months with her mother at Aunt Jo's California beach house, where a notebook of letters from Lucas to Oakley challenges her to feel better and enjoy life, but a budding romance reminds her of the chances Lucas will never have.
106) Timber Creek Station
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Thirteen-year-old Danny Dawson lives on a cattle station in the Australian outback, where his family struggles to cope with the accidental death of his older brother a year earlier and his sister's pregnancy by an Aboriginal.
107) Swing it, Sunny!
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 2
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
In the mid-1970s Sunny Lewin is back, star of her personal show, facing the prospect of Middle School, and dealing with the problems of her somewhat dysfunctional family--in particular her older brother, Dale, who has been sent off to a military academy because of his delinquent behavior.
108) No place like home
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Opin, his brother Emjay, and their mother live in a car and are trying to get to Los Angeles where they hope an uncle and a new life are waiting, but even after finding a stray dog, Opin's longing for a stable home intensifies as his brother's reckless ways hit a new high.
109) Reality Boy
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
"An emotionally damaged seventeen-year-old boy in Pennsylvania, who was once an infamous reality television show star, meets a girl from another dysfunctional family, and she helps him out of his angry shell"--
110) Dark song
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After her father loses his job and she finds out that her parents have lied to her, fifteen-year-old Ames feels betrayed enough to become involved with a criminal who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
111) Something Like Home
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When a lost dog helps Laura find a way home to her family, they discover family in each other along the way.
112) Boot camp
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
After ignoring several warnings to stop dating his teacher, Garrett is sent to Lake Harmony, a boot camp that uses unorthodox and brutal methods to train students to obey their parents.
113) Sunny side up
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"From the groundbreaking and award-winning sister-brother team behind Babymouse comes a middle-grade, graphic-novel memoir. Following the lives of kids whose older brother's delinquent behavior has thrown their family into chaos, 'Sunny Side Up' is at once a compelling 'problem' story and a love letter to the comic books that help the protagonist make sense of her world" --
Author
Series
Ghost mysteries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
When Allie is contacted by the ghost of a dog, she and Dub investigate the surly new boy at school and his father, who may be running a puppy mill, to see if they are involved.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Eleven-year-old Lou wishes she could turn back time to mend her friendship with Francie after a terrible fight, so when Lou befriends Cece she is eager to prove herself, but as she uncovers the truth about Cece's family, she grapples with what being a good friend means.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
While dealing with her parents' separation and her best friend's distance, Amanda is able to work out some of her anxiety through her fifth-grade project--writing a diary from the point of view of a ten-year-old girl whose brothers fight on opposite sides in the Civil War.
117) If this were a story
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Ten-year-old Hannah copes with the bullies at school and trouble at home through the power of her imagination.
118) Family reunion
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
At a family reunion, Shelley comes to terms with her parents' divorce, her mother's absence, her new stepmother, and being the "stable" member of her colorful family.
119) Falling
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Fifteen-year-old Matt's life has been turned upside-down, first when the brother he idolizes turns to drugs, then when a visit to a chat room leads him to a classmate, Katie, who he likes very much but cannot trust with his family secret.
120) Everything I was
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Thirteen-year-old Irene helps in her grandfather's plant nursery, makes new friends, and begins to learn what she really wants and needs after her father, having lost his job as an investment banker, moves her and her mother to his father's farmhouse upstate.
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