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2) Split
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A teenaged boy thrown out of his house by his abusive father goes to live with his older brother, who ran away from home years ago to escape the abuse.
3) Bruiser
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Bronte befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old John creates alternative realities in his mind as he tries to deal with his mother's abusive boyfriend, his crush on a beautiful, but shallow classmate and other problems at school.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sent to a remote, run-down reform school in Colorado, fifteen-year-old Angela is placed with the better girls, but upon learning that her "dangerous" friends are being isolated and left to live as animals, she takes radical steps to join them and help them escape.
8) Itch
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1968, after the death of her beloved Gramps, Delores "Itch" Colchester and her grandmother move from Florida to an Ohio trailer park, where she meets new people and, when she learns that a friend is being abused by her mother, tries her best to emulate her plain-spoken grandfather.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
As if her parents' heavy drinking and her father's abuse--which nearly killed her half-brother, Iggy--were not enough, fifteen-year-old Mara is caught kissing her girlfriend, Xylia, by the preacher's son and becomes terrified that her own life is at risk.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ezra Ahern wakes up one day to find his older sister, Bea, gone. No note, no sign, nothing but an email address hidden somewhere only he would find it. Ezra never expected to be left behind with their abusive stepfather and their neglectful mother, how is he supposed to navigate life without Bea? Bea Ahern already knew sh eneeded to get as far away from home as possible. But a message in her inbox changes everything, and she finds herself alone in...
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
15) Iqbal: a novel
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of the Pakistani child who escaped from bondage in a carpet factory and went on to help liberate other children like him before being gunned down at the age of thirteen.
16) Matilda
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Matilda, a brilliant, sensitive little girl, uses her talents and ingenuity to seek revenge on her crooked father, lazy mother, and the terrifying Miss Trunchbull, her wicked headmistress, and save her beloved teacher, Miss Honey.
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