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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Five months after Liv's older brother, Jonah, accidentally shot himself, Liv is the one who takes care of Jonah, and she has not spoken to Jonah's best friend, Clay, whose father owns the gun, even though she knows Clay is suffering, too.
2) Sold
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
4) Unlocked
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While trying to impress a beautiful, unattainable classmate, fourteen-year-old Andy discovers that a fellow social outcast may be planning an act of school violence.
Author
Series
Eleanor Kane books volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When nine-year-old Eleanor's beloved babysitter Bibi moves away to care for her ailing father, Eleanor must spend the summer adjusting to a new babysitter while mourning the loss of her old one.
Author
Series
Shakespeare bats cleanup volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Kevin Boland, poet and first baseman, is torn between his cute girlfriend Mira and Amy, who is funny, plays Chopin on the piano, and is also a poet.
Author
Publisher
Viking Childrens Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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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
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Belinda "Bindi" Winkler and her family find their way through tough times with the love and support of the community that grows around their newly opened restaurant, "The Dancing Pancake."
10) Cold skin
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In a rural Australian coal mining town shortly after World War II, teenaged Eddie makes a startling discovery when he investigates the murder of a local high school girl.
11) Shark girl
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future.
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the Florida projects, sixteen-year-old Jayson struggles with the harsh realities of his life which include an abusive mother, a drug-addicted father, and not fitting in at his predominately white school, and bring him to the brink of suicide.
13) Out of the dust
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In fifth-century Britain, nine years after the destruction of their home on the island of Shalott brings her to live with her father and brothers in the military encampments of Arthur's army, seventeen-year-old Elaine describes her changing perceptions of war and the people around her as she becomes increasingly involved in the bitter struggle against the invading Saxons.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the Nazi party takes control of Germany, thirteen-year-old Paula, who is deaf, finds her world-as-she-knows-it turned upside down, as she is taken into hiding to protect her from the new law nicknamed T4.
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