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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper starts sleeping with Wesley Rush, a notorious womanizer who disgusts her, in order to distract her from her personal problems, she is surprised to find that they have a lot in common.
2) Labyrinth
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As he struggles to cope with his father's suicide and his mother's possible remarriage, fourteen-year-old Gregory is plagued by recurring dreams that make him question what is real.
3) Crooked
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Two ninth graders, Clara and Amos, suddenly find their lives turned upside down by their families, by each other, and by the two meanest brothers in town.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his volatile father is picked to become an astronaut for NASA's mission to Mars, seventeen-year-old Cal, an aspiring journalist, reluctantly moves from Brooklyn to Houston, Texas, and looks for a story to report, finding an ally (and crush) in Jeremy, the son of another astronaut.
5) Water in May
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Pregnant at fifteen, Mari Pujols believes the baby will supply the family love she yearns for but when she learns the fetus has a heart defect, her friends, sometimes boyfriend, and doctor are there for her.
6) Pearl
Author
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When her uncle agrees to pay the tuition at a private boarding school, seventeen-year-old Pearl hopes to escape the homelessness and drama of life with her mother, a former rock star who has ruined her life with drugs.
7) Comfort
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1945 Hickory, North Carolina, Ann Fay's father is back from the war but she must still rely on her own strength and determination as she faces the problems of her polio-induced disability and her father's failure to get a job. Includes facts about the disability rights movement.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Isadora, the mortal daughter of Isis and Osiris, is sick of being in the middle of family drama so she jumps at the chance to leave Egypt and start a new life in San Diego with her brother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin Lily.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by their father and living in poverty with their heartless stepmother in Louisiana, two sisters from the Philippines, twelve-year-old Sol and six-year-old Ming, learn the true meaning of family.
13) Mercy's birds
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of his grandmother, who held the family together, teenage JP is left with a mentally challenged father and a mother who moves them to a rambling farm house she wins in a contest and proceeds to populate the house with an assortment of outcasts, artists and musicians whose presence and unpredictability make JP miserable.
17) Okay for now
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends, an abusive father, and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him until he finds an ally in Lil Spicer--a fiery young lady. Together, they find a safe haven in the local library, inspiration in learning about the plates of John James Audubon's birds, and a hilarious adventure on a Broadway stage.
18) Skate
Author
Publisher
Knopf : Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Facing a disintegrating home life and trouble at school, teenager Ian McDermott runs away with his younger brother to Washington State in search of safety, justice, and their long-absent father.
19) Identical
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.
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