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1) Crank
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Kristina Snow is the perfect daughter, but she meets a boy who introduces her to drugs and becomes a very different person, struggling to control her life and her mind.
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what...
2) Odder
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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2025 NYRA Recommendations - Young Readers
Books for Kids and Tweens
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
Books for Kids and Tweens
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
Description
"A touching and lyrical tale about a remarkable sea otter, from Newbery Medalist Katherine Applegate, author of Wishtree. Meet Odder, the Queen of Play: Nobody has her moves. She doesn’t just swim to the bottom, she dive-bombs. She doesn’t just somersault, she triple-doughnuts. She doesn’t just ride the waves, she makes them. Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky...
3) Fallout
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
4) Starfish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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2022 ALA Youth Media Awards
All Together Now - Ages 12-18
Mighty Girls
One World, Many Stories 6th - 8th
All Together Now - Ages 12-18
Mighty Girls
One World, Many Stories 6th - 8th
Description
Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.
5) Glass
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In a powerful sequel to Crank, 18-year old Kristina is determined to manage her addiction to crystal meth in order to keep her newborn child, but when she is unable to manage her use of the drug and the pull becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.
Author
Series
Eleanor Kane books volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"As the days go on, nine-year-old Eleanor realizes that maybe being at summer camp isn't so bad after all, and is full of special surprises"--
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
8) Perfect
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Northern Nevada teenagers Cara, Kendra, Sean, and Andre, tell in their own voices of their very different paths toward perfection and how their goals change when tragedy strikes.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
One year after a random shooting changed their family forever, Nora and her father are exploring a slot canyon deep in the Arizona desert, hoping it will help them find peace. Nora longs for things to go back to normal, like they were when her mother was still alive, while her father keeps them isolated in fear of other people. But when they reach the bottom of the canyon, the unthinkable happens: A flash flood rips across their path, sweeping away...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
At seventeen, Daisy feels imprisoned by her brother Steven's autism and its effects and her only escape is through her trumpet into the world of jazz, but when her parents decide to send Steven to an institution she is not ready to let him go.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Junior high school girls, meet your new BFF! Izzy Kline faces all the drama of middle school with total honesty and deep heart. Hiding out in the girls' bathroom . . . FaceTiming one friend while group chatting two others . . . Forced to ballroom dance with a boy for a social studies unit . . . There is a LOT going on in middle school. New experiences and shifting dynamics are around every turn. And it's not just her friends--Izzy's family is shifting...
12) Burned
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grace has grown up in slavery. As difficult as life on the Virginia plantation is, at least she has her family: Momma, her younger brothers, Thomas and Willy, Aunt Sara, and Uncle Jim. When she overhears Master and Mistress plotting to sell her brothers, she and her family decide to run away that same night. But without time to plan their escape and go north along the Underground Railroad, their only choice is to head deep into the woods of the Dismal...
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