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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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"Adam not only is trying to understand his OCD, while trying to balance his relationship with his divorced parents, but he's also trying to navigate through the issues that teenagers normally face, namely the perils of young love"--
4) Piggy
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Lizzie struggles to overcome the closed, internal world of autism when a new girl moves into her neighborhood, befriends her, then insists that Lizzie join her in seeking revenge on the boys who tease them.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, sixth-grade cousins Hannah and Cal learn a lot about family when circumstances throw them together under one roof and Hannah's love of order clashes with Cal's chaotic behavior.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old TJ tries to cope with the emotional upheaval in her life when the father who kidnapped her ten years earlier and raised her under a different identity is injured, and she goes to visit her recently-discovered twin sister, mother, and future stepfather.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After discovering that her father has multiple sclerosis, fifteen-year-old Payton begins counselling sessions at school, which lead her to become interested in a boy in her biology class, have a falling out with her best friend, develop an interest in bike riding, and eventually allow her to come to terms with life's uncertainties.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When her father returns from the Iraq War as an amputee with post-traumatic stress disorder, Hannah escapes by volunteering to work with rescued horses, never thinking that the abused horses could also help her father recover.
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