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Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Ivy Blake leaves the nice farm family where she has been living in upstate New York and moves back in with her mother she is finally forced to face up to the fact that her alcoholic, dysfunctional parent will never be able to provide her with a stable home--and if she wants to achieve her dreams she is going to have to take charge of her own future.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In Mallory, New York, as five sisters, aged eleven to seventeen, deal with assorted problems, conflicts, fears, and yearnings, a mysterious middle-aged man watches them, fascinated, deciding which one he likes the best.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
During their annual summer vacation at her grandfather's home, Cecile hopes for their usual idyllic holiday, but with her sister growing up, her brother away at a summer job, and her parents fighting, nothing is as she envisions.
6) Wild girl
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.
7) Hidden roots
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Although he is uncertain why his father is so angry and what secret his mother is keeping from him, eleven-year-old Sonny knows that he is different from his classmates in their small New York town.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
To be more like her best friend, eleven-year-old Justine decides to give up Judaism to become Catholic, but after her beloved, religious grandmother dies, she realizes that she needs to seek her own way of being Jewish.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Five teens starring in a documentary film series about their ordinary lives must grapple with questions of change and identity under the scrutiny of the camera"--
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.
11) Dear Julia
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Shy sixteen-year-old Elaine has long dreamed of being the next Julia Child, to the dismay of her feminist mother, but when her first friend, the outrageous Lucida Sans, convinces Elaine to enter a cooking contest, anything could happen.
12) Gingersnap
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action in 1944, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
In 1980 life is hard on the Tuscarora Reservation in upstate New York, and most of the teenagers feel like they are going nowhere: Carson Mastick dreams of forming a rock band, and Maggi Bokoni longs to create her own conceptual artwork instead of the traditional beadwork that her family sells to tourists--but tensions are rising between the reservation and the surrounding communities, and somehow in the confusion of politics and growing up Carson...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eve gave up her belief in stories and magic after her mother's death, but a mysterious seed given her as an eleventh-birthday gift by someone she has never met takes her and a boy who claims to be a ghost on a strange journey, to where their supposedly cursed town of Beaumont, New York, flourishes.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
It’s a good thing Sofía Acosta loves dreaming up costumes, because otherwise she’s a ballet disaster—unlike her parents, who danced under prima ballerina Alicia Alonso before immigrating to the suburbs of New York. Luckily, when the Acostas host their dancer friends from Cuba for a special performance with the American Ballet Theatre, Sofía learns there’s more than dance holding her family together. Between swapping stories about Cuba and...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Just right for fans of Pam Muñoz Ryan, this story of moving out and moving on is a touching portrayal of the experience of leaving one's home country and making new friends--sometimes where least expected. Eleven-year-old Carolina's summer--and life as she knows it--is upended when Papi loses his job, and she and her family must move from Puerto Rico to her Tía Cuca and Uncle Porter's house in upstate New York. Now Carolina must attend Silver Meadows...
Author
Series
Pacy Lin books volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In the Chinese Year of the Rat, a young Taiwanese American girl faces many challenges: her best friend moves to California and a new boy comes to her school, she must find the courage to forge ahead with her dream of becoming a writer and illustrator, and she must learn to find the beauty in change.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's 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.
19) Finding Mighty
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla's necklace and the disappearance of Peter's brother, Randall. Thrown into a world of parkour, graffiti, and diamond-smuggling, Myla and Peter encounter a band of thugs who are after the same thing as Randall. Can Myla and Peter find Randall before it's too late, and their shared family secrets threaten to destroy them all?"--
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