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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At the start of their senior year in high school, James (a girl with a boy's name) and Kat are inseparable, but by graduation, they're no longer friends. James prepares to head off to college as she reflects on the dissolution of her friendship with Kat while, in alternating chapters, Kat thinks about being newly in love and having a future that feels wide open"--
2) Harbor me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Formats
Description
It all starts when six kids have to meet for a weekly chat--by themselves, with no adults to listen inches There, in the room they soon dub the ARTT Room (short for "A Room to Talk"), they discover it's safe to talk about what's bothering them--everything from Esteban's father's deportation and Haley's father's incarceration to Amari's fears of racial profiling and Ashton's adjustment to his changing family fortunes. When the six are together, they...
Author
Publisher
Viking Childrens Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The youngest of three siblings, fourteen-year-old Anke feels both relieved and neglected that her father abuses her brother and sister but ignores her, but when she catches him with one of her friends, she finally becomes angry enough to take action.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After her father goes to jail, Cady Bennett, twelve, is taken from foster care to spend a summer with her estranged Aunt Michelle, trying to save her failing pie shop.
7) Silent alarm
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Alys, a Plaineville, Wisconsin, junior who dreams of studying violin at Julliard, must deal with the aftermath of a tragic high school shooting in which her older brother, Luke, was the shooter.
9) White Fox
Author
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Tai, seventeen, and Manon, eighteen, lured to the Mediterranean island from which their world-famous mother mysteriously vanished a decade earlier, discover her lost screenplay, White Fox, which reveals clues to the truth. Told in multiple voices.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Nearly a year after his brother's suicide, sixteen-year-old Cliff "Neanderthal" Hubbard gets recruited to make life better at Happy Valley High by the school's quarterback, who claims he had a vision from God.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
A mixed-heritage dancer's coming of age within the African diaspora is shaped by abuse at the hands of a cousin, her mother's descent into addiction, and her father's efforts to create a Nigerian-inspired home in America.
13) The lake effect
Author
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Fleeing hometown troubles for a summer job on Lake Michigan, Briggs Henry is floored by his elderly employer's announcement that he will be helping her plan her imminent funeral, an arrangement further complicated by social gaffes, beach activities and a mystifying girl next door who completely resists his charms.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is.
Author
Series
Roman mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Jonathan and his friends are called to Rome by the emperor in the winter of 80 A.D. to find the new Prometheus believed to have brought an epidemic to the city, but Jonathan, obsessed with reuniting his parents, makes some unwise--and life-threatening--choices.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, An imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Carson Speier is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years--but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives.
17) Like Vanessa
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but the odds are against her until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
18) Wilder
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The lives of Jason Wilder and Meili Wen intersect in the delinquent-proof room for in-school suspension, known as the Rubber Room, and Jason's growing, fierce protectiveness of Meili explodes into violence when her chance to return to her wealthy lifestyle in Hong Kong--and his opportunity to escape poverty, loneliness, and the past--is threatened.
19) The pretty app
Author
Series
App volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Blake Dawkins competes against girls across the country for a spot on a reality television show through the Pretty App, but difficulties at home and a desire to be more than just her high school's "mean girl" lead her to transform herself into the person she really wants to be.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Annabelle's mother is a hoarder, and their whole house is full of canned goods, broken toys, fabric, and old newspapers--but when a pile of newspapers (organized by weather reports) falls on Annabelle's younger sister Leslie and their mother is more concerned about the newspapers, it sets off a chain of events that brings their fix-it-all grandmother in and Annabelle realizes that if there is any hope for change she can not isolate...
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