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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Mary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly. She didn't say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: A white baby had died while under the care of a church-going black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it? She wouldn't say. Mary survived six years in baby jail before being dumped in a group home. The house isn't really...
Author
Series
Darkest powers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After fifteen-year-old Chloe starts seeing ghosts and is sent to Lyle House, a mysterious group home for mentally disturbed teenagers, she soon discovers that neither Lyle House nor its inhabitants are exactly what they seem, and that she and her new friends are in danger.
3) Solemn
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Solemn Redvine is a precocious Mississippi girl who senses a nearby baby may be her half-sibling: the outcome of her father's mistakes with a married woman who lives in their trailer park. After Solemn witnesses a man throw the baby down a community well, she struggles to understand the event, leaving her forever changed. As Solemn finds refuge in fantasies of stardom as well as friendships with her brother's wife and a nearby girl, the ill-fated...
4) We were here
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the event that sentences him to time in a group home, Miguel breaks out with two unlikely companions and together they begin their journey down the California coast hoping to get to Mexico and a new life.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Luther T. Farrel has got to get out of Flint, Michigan. As his best friend Sparky says, "Flint's nothing but the Titanic." And his mother, a.k.a. the Sarge, says, "Take my advice and stay off the sucker path." The Sarge milked the system to build an empire of slum housing and group homes. Luther's just one of the many people trapped in the Sarge's Evil Empire-but he's about to bust out. If Luther wins the science fair this year, he'll be on track...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Desde las calles de Stockton hasta las playas de Venice Beach, y hasta la frontera con México, aquí estuvimos narra el viaje de autodescubrimiento de un niño que intenta perdonarse a sí mismo en un mundo implacable. Cuando le sucedió, a Miguel lo enviaron al centro de detención juvenil. El juez lo sentenció a un año en una casa hogar para menores; dijo que tenía que escribir en un diario para que algún consejero pudiera tratar de entender...
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