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Author
Series
Ramona Quimby volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Littérature de jeunesse en langue anglaise.
3) 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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her younger brother, Tyler, commits suicide, Lex struggles to work through her grief in the face of a family that has fallen apart, the sudden distance between her and her friends, and memories of Tyler that still feel all too real.
5) Squirm
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"This summer, Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, save a neighbor's cat, save an endangered panther, and then try to save his own father. Carl Hiaasen tells a wickedly funny, slightly twisted tale about families, figuring out what's really important, and knowing when (and when not) to let things go."--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Poppy and friends volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Resolved to leave her home for good, young runaway Beverly is determined not to depend on anyone else, but as she settles in her new home and job, she forms connections with the people around her that alter her perspectives about life and herself.
8) Blister
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When a family tragedy occurs, ten-year-old Alyssa "Blister" Reed changes schools, moves to an apartment with her depressed mother while her father gets his own place, and tries to believe her grandmother, who tells her she is "elastic" and can handle it all.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
Author
Publisher
Dutton's Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ellsworth leaves his father to visit the relatives he has never met and eventually joins forces with Jess, his distant cousin, to uncover family secrets and search for their ancestor's hidden treasure.
11) Revolution
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Using the writing techniques she has learned in school, fourth-grader Laney relates how an obese girl new to the class changes the lives of those around her, despite being bullied by her peers.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sloane Emily Jacobs and Sloane Devon Jacobs, from very different worlds but both with problem families, meet in in Montreal where they will stay in the same hotel while attending camp, one for figure skating, the other for ice hockey.
Author
Series
Dollanganger family series volume 5
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Relating the events that led to those in the popular horror series that began with "Flowers in the Attic," this novel introduces the young, dashing Malcolm Foxworth and his new wife, Olivia, and reveals why they became evil.
Author
Series
Sisters of the Sword volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Recovering from injuries sustained while escaping a fire, Kimi, Hana, and their mother and little brother take refuge in a monastery where their mother petitions the Shogun for help against evil Uncle Hidehira.
17) Tilt
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three teens, connected by their parents' bad choices, tell in their own voices of their lives and loves as Shane finds his first boyfriend, Mikayla discovers that love can be pushed too far, and Harley loses herself in her quest for new experiences.
18) Dead to you
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse/Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Having been abducted at age seven, abandoned, a foster child, and homeless, Ethan, now sixteen, is happy to be home until his brother's suspicion and his own inability to remember something unspeakable from his early childhood begin to tear the family apart.
19) Heavy hitters
Author
Series
Game changers volume 3
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Ben and his friends, the Core Four Plus One, are so excited to play in their town's All-Star Baseball league. But in the first game of the season Ben gets hit by a pitch. It's never happened to him before and it shakes him up. Another player on Ben's team, Justin, is acting really weirdly. Ben has known Justin for a while and they're friendly but he's not one of Ben's closest "boys." Justin is the team's best hitter but his behavior on and off the...
20) Wish girl
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Peter has never felt at home with his noisy family, but begins to find the strength to live and to be himself when he discovers a special valley in the Texas Hill Country and meets Annie, a girl dying of cancer who knows and accepts him from the start.
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