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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lucille is struggling to get through each day, paying bills and looking after her little sister, Wren, while her father is institutionalized after a breakdown and her mother is "on vacation," but nothing else seems to matter when she is with Digby Jones, her best friend's twin brother.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"High school junior Sophie has always had the burden of taking care of her mother, who has bipolar disorder, but after her mother's hospitalization she must learn to cope with estranged family and figure out her own life"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Kara, a high school junior, is popular with a great group of friends, an amazing boyfriend, and expectations of being Homecoming Queen until she leaves a party angry and wakes up in a hospital bed, paralized from the waist down, but as she is forced to adjust to her new physical reality, she also learns that her friends are not who they seemed to be.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In the near future, seniors Lydia and Billy form an unlikely friendship when their high schools are merged, bonding over their Washington town's weird history and their unusual families.
Billy Sloat and Lydia Lemon don't have much in common, unless you count growing up on the same (wrong) side of the tracks, the lack of a mother, and a persistent loneliness that has inspired creative coping mechanisms. When their high schools are consolidated, Lydia's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Peyton, Sydney's charismatic older brother, has always been the star of the family, receiving the lion's share of their parents' attention and -- lately -- concern. When Peyton's increasingly reckless behavior culminates in an accident, a drunk driving conviction, and a jail sentence, Sydney is cast adrift, searching for her place in the family and the world. When everyone else is so worried about Peyton, is she the only one concerned about the victim...
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
From age six through her high school valedictory speech, believing she and her mother are wizards helps young Echo cope with poverty, hunger, her mother's drug abuse, and much more.
Echo Brown is a wizard from the East Side of Cleveland, where apartments are small and parents suffer addiction to the white rocks. Yet there is magic everywhere. Every day Echo travels between worlds, attending a rich white school on the West Side. But there are dangers...
Author
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Ever since the day when everything changed, Cal Scott's answer has been to run--run from her mother, who's fighting cancer, run from her father, whom she can't forgive, and run from those classmates who never seemed to 'get' her. The only thing Cal runs toward is nearby Mount Meteorite, named for the extraterrestrial object some claim crashed there fifty years ago. Cal spends her afternoons plotting to summit the mountain so she can find the magic...
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