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1) Merrow
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Enduring whispers about her absent mother's alleged merrow origins after her father drowns, twelve-year-old Neen questions her identity as she becomes increasingly torn between the worlds of the sea and her island home.
2) Starfish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--
5) First time
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Haley must deal with unwanted advances from her mother's new boyfriend.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
A descendant of the inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, sixteen-year-old Alyssa Gardner fears she is mentally ill like her mother until she finds that Wonderland is real and, if she passes a series of tests to fix Alice's mistakes, she may save her family from their curse.
8) Saturday
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When all of their special Saturday plans go awry, Ava and her mother still find a way to appreciate one another and their time together.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Pickles are new to Midnight Gulch, Tennessee, a town which legend says was once magic--but Felicity is convinced the magic is still there, and with the help of her new friend Jonah the Beedle she hopes to bring the magic back.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the family's drugstore is failing, seventh-grader Lucy uses her problem solving talents to come up with solution that might resuscitate the business, along with helping the environment.
12) Me & Mama
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
For a little girl on a rainy day, the best place to be is with Mama.
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
2005,c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
At the request of her social worker, thirteen-year-old Linda gradually reveals how her life with her unstable mother and her younger brother led to her rape and the murder she witnessed.
16) Dragon's keep
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the dragon's claw she was born with that reflects only one of her mother's dark secrets.
17) Hugging the rock
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Through a series of poems, Rachel expresses her feelings about her parents' divorce, living without her mother, and her changing attitude towards her father.
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Life gets complicated once again for teenaged Alyssa when her mother returns home from an asylum and the mysterious Morpheus tempts Alyssa with another dangerous quest in the dark, challenging Wonderland.
19) Show way
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
20) Things change
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Johanna, one of the best students in her class, develops a passionate attachment for troubled seventeen-year-old Paul and finds her plans for the future changing in unexpected ways.
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