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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sydney's charismatic older brother, Peyton, has always been the center of attention in the family but when he is sent to jail, Sydney struggles to find her place at home and the world until she meets the Chathams, including gentle, protective Mac, who makes her feel seen for the first time.
22) Rumble
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Matt's atheism is tested when, after a horrific accident of his own making that plunges him into a dark, quiet place, he hears a voice that calls everything he has ever disbelieved into question.
23) Train I ride
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Traveling from California to Chicago after her mother dies of a drug overdose and her grandmother of lung cancer, thirteen-year-old Rydr meets other passengers on the train and attempts to accept her own situation.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
To escape his offbeat family at Thanksgiving, Andrew West accepts a ride from a band of street performers who get their food and clothing from dumpsters, but as he learns more about these "Freegans" he sees that one cannot outrun the past.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
For fans of Jodi Picoult and Anna Quindlen, comes an “astonishingly profoundexquisitely written drama” (Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You) about a husband and a wife, a missing child, and the complicated family secrets that can derail even the best of marriages. Its been a busyand expensivefew years for Matt and Elise Sorenson and their young daughter Gracie, whom they affectionately call Little Green. Matt,...
26) Riverland
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When their parents fight, sisters Eleanor and Mike hide, whispering stories and hoping house magic will protect them, until the night a river carries them to a place of dreams and nightmares.
27) When we collided
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Can seventeen-year-old Jonah save his family restaurant from ruin, his mother from her sadness, and his danger-seeking girlfriend Vivi from herself?
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Even though it’s nice being back with her friends at Meadow Wood, Vic still can’t forget about the secret reason her mom wanted her and her brother out of the house—or how much her family is going to change. When her home life is blowing up, it can be hard to focus on campfires and canoeing. But there is something about summer and surprises that go together like blueberry pancakes and maple syrup. And soon, Vic starts to feel like—just maybe—a...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning children’s book creator grapples with the darker undercurrents of his childhood in this poignant and honest illustrated memoir, for readers of Free Lunch and The List of Things That Will Not Change. Benny's life is slowly unraveling. His parents are newly divorced, his mom chooses to move away, and Benny and his brother and sister are left with their chain-smoking dad, who has just been diagnosed with lung cancer. Benny is lonely,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her younger brother, Tyler, commits suicide, Lex struggles to work through her grief in the face of a family that has fallen apart, the sudden distance between her and her friends, and memories of Tyler that still feel all too real.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Finley Hart is sent to her grandparents' house for the summer, but her anxiety and overwhelmingly sad days continue until she escapes into her writings which soon turn mysteriously real and she realizes she must save this magical world in order to save herself.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Inseparable siblings Con and Sofie have loved their mother throughout her struggle with addiction, but when she disappears without warning, the two must decide who they can trust and whether or not they can survive on their own.
"Perfect for fans of Encanto and Turning Red, this intimate and heartfelt middle grade novel follows two siblings fighting to stay together amidst the ripple effects of addiction and generational trauma. Siblings Con and...
34) Luna: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Regan's life, which has always revolved around keeping her older brother Liam's transsexuality a secret, changes when Liam decides to start the process of "transitioning" by first telling his family and friends that he is a girl who was born in a boy's body.
35) Love me tender
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Elvira worries about her future when, after a fight, her father heads to Las Vegas for an Elvis impersonator competition and her pregnant mother takes her and her younger sister to Memphis to visit a grandmother the girls have never met.
Author
Series
Ramona Quimby volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Littérature de jeunesse en langue anglaise.
37) Dig
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1938, twelve-year-old William has already decided to leave home when his younger sister informs him that she and their brother and sister are going too, and right away, but complications arise when an acquaintance decides to "help" them.
39) Making pretty
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Pubishers
Pub. Date
©2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Missing the relationships she used to have with her sister and her best friend, seventeen-year-old Montana gets involved with a wild actress friend and falls in love with a new boy.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The death of an apparent stranger in the Steeple family's old home triggers troubling questions for sixteen-year-old Declan as he tries to make sense of his fragmented dreams, random memories, and unexplained coincidences, hoping to learn the truth about the mother who suddenly left when he was ten.
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