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Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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There are a lot of things that puzzle Greg Heffley, including his irritating siblings, concerned parents, and daily challenges as a junior high student. Greg's journal offers up his often funny observations on family life during summer vacation, and the looming dread of a return to school.
Author
Series
Dirt diary volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After her parents' divorce, eighth-grader Rachel Lee joins her mother's new housecleaning business, which has her scrubbing bathrooms in her more popular classmates' homes and learning useful secrets.
3) Again again
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Rising high school senior Adelaide Buchwald grapples with a family catastrophe and romantic upheaval while confronting secrets she keeps, her ideas about love, and the weird grandiosity of the human mind.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Between school and Al-Anon meetings, Jenna helps Mrs. Gladstone cope with escalating problems that result from the merger of Gladstone Shoes with Shoe Warehouse Corporation, while managing a new employee with a shoplifting record.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life.
7) The meltdown
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When snow shuts down Greg Heffley's middle school, his neighborhood transforms into a wintry battlefield. Rival groups fight over territory, build massive snow forts, and stage epic snowball fights. And in the crosshairs are Greg and his trusty best friend, Rowley Jefferson. It's a fight for survival as Greg and Rowley navigate alliances, betrayals, and warring gangs in a neighborhood meltdown. When the snow clears, will Greg and Rowley emerge as...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
When her new baby sister is born deaf, Jilly makes an online connection with a fellow fantasy fan, who happens to be black and deaf, and begins to learn about the many obstacles that exist in the world for people who are different from her.
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Language
English
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Kyle’s parents want him to keep the secret of his mother’s affair from the rest of the family until after what might be their last big summer reunion. As Kyle watches the effects of his parents’ choices ripple out over friends, family, and strangers, and he feels the walls of his relationships closing in, he has to decide what his obligations are to everyone he cares for―including himself.
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"18-year-old Meg Hennessey just found out her entire childhood was a lie. Instead of taking a gap year before college to find herself, she ends up traveling north to meet what's left of the family she never knew existed. While there, she meets Micah Allen, a former pastor's kid whose dad ended up in prison, leaving Micah with his own complicated relationship about the church. The clock is ticking on Pastor Allen's probation hearing and Micah, now...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Ginny Rose and Peggy were best friends at seven, picking peaches on hot summer days. Peggy's family owned the farm, and Ginny Rose's were pickers, escaping the Oklahoma dust storms. That didn't matter to them then, but now, ten years, hard miles, and a world war later, Ginny Rose's family is back in town and their differences feel somehow starker. Especially since Peggy's new best friend, Lisette, is a wealthy banker's daughter. Still, there's no...
13) Hard luck
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?"--
14) Red ink
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When her mother is knocked down and killed by a London bus, fifteen-year-old Melon Fouraki is left with no family worth mentioning. Her mother, Maria, never did introduce Melon to a 'living, breathing' father.
15) Slider
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Hoping to win a cash prize in a pizza eating contest after racking up a tab on his mother's credit card, David must juggle his competitive eating training with the responsibility of looking after his autistic younger brother.
16) War in my town
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When German soldiers fleeing the allied forces, occupy her village in northern Tuscany, Bruna's peaceful life ends as she and her family are caught at the center of the fight.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Allie, aged seven when she knew her family was different and feared, struggles to claim her Muslim and Arabic heritage while finding her place as an American teenager.
18) Whisper
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Whisper, a teen girl with a cleft palate, is forced to survive in a world that is hostile to those with disfigurements or disabilities.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Mormon girl Elizabeth is torn between becoming an astronomer and familial duties and faith when she navigates a whole new world of possibility, in this sweeping adventure set in Colorado in the late nineteenth century.
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