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Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While living in Liberia with her possessive, diabetic mother and often-absent father, twelve-year-old Sarina longs for a friend with whom to experience the world beyond her yard.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Spending the summer before her senior year at a camp for gifted and talented students, Gloria struggles with the recent loss of her grandmother while trying to meet new friends and make the best of her new circumstances.
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
©2016
Language
English
Description
This book started as a poem and like many poems doesn't have paragraphs, but stanzas. After the poem the prose is divided into parts and those parts could be considered stanzas that might stand by themselves. It covers about one very busy month in the life of a thirty-five year old man, who one day is gifted with extraordinary insight into the world of evil. His lonely life is forever changed by the way he deals with this gift.
Author
Series
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
©2018
Language
English
Description
This book continues the story of Gill Halloran. His gift of insight has matured into instinct. He and his family move to San Francisco where his morals, ethics, and life are challenged. His confrontation with the many faces of evil leaves him a changed man. He is forced to face his mistakes. The evil in him turns to fire that he uses to fight the evil outside him. In the aftermath he realizes he is not the man he thought he was. His hypocrisy has...
Author
Series
Amber Brown volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the end of third grade, Amber is excited about her trip with her aunt to London and Paris, where she will see her father again, but her plans change when she comes down with chicken pox.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After the death of her mother in an automobile accident, seventh-grader Serena, who has gotten the lead in her middle school play, is left to handle the day-to-day challenges of caring for herself and her younger brother when their father cannot pull himself out of his depression.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Spurred by a special project from her social studies teacher, seventh-grader Bethesda Fielding uncovers the secret identity of her music teacher, which leads to a most unusual concert performance and a tutoring assignment.
Author
Publisher
Purple Feather Press
Pub. Date
©2016
Language
English
Description
Discover a never-experienced fictitious story of growing up in the agrarian South during the Civil Rights era. Set in the farming community of Corn Hollow, Tennessee, the story takes place from the early 1950's to early 1970's. Corn Hollow is told through the young African American protagonist, Tamara Banks, as she grows up with a question. While in the process of seeking answers, she stumbles upon various encounters of injustice; of race and gender,...
Author
Series
Pretty little liars volume 8
Publisher
HarperTeen
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former best friends Hanna, Aria, Spencer, and Emily, who lost their best friend and leader, Alison, years ago when she disappeared, find themselves in grave danger when they pursue the truth about Alison.
13) Blink & Caution
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Two teenagers who are living on the streets and barely getting by become involved in a complicated criminal plot, and make an unexpected connection with each other.
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Verbena Polter gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with an odd new friend who believes she is the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Hanna, Spencer, Emily and Aria are trying to move on and forget about their old friend Alison DiLaurentis and all the torture she put them through, but someone is trying to keep her spirit alive.
17) Franny Parker
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Through a hot, dry Oklahoma summer, twelve-year-old Franny tends wild animals brought by her neighbors, hears gossip during a weekly quilting bee, befriends a new neighbor who has some big secrets, and learns to hope.
18) Goth Girl rising
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
19) Scum
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Megan's brother is dead, apparently a random victim of violence. As Megan digs deeper, she finds that Danny was "known to police" and that nobody wants to solve the crime.
20) Wintergirls
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
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