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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A sixteen-year-old boy wrestling with depression and anxiety tries to cope by writing poems, reciting Walt Whitman, hugging trees, and figuring out why his sister has been kicked out of the house.
42) Junk boy
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
"Bobby, who is bullied by the kids at school for living in a home with a front yard that is filled with garbage, meets a young artist who teaches him to see himself as more than "Junk Boy""--
43) Be not afraid
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Since her mother's suicide, high school junior Marin has been able to see others' pain as colors and shapes, but what she sees in the head of classmate Cassie, who forced her to participate in a weird conjoining rite, is much more frightening and deadly.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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For Fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Life in Middle School
NYT - Children’s Paperback Books
Read-Alikes for the Dork Diaries
Life in Middle School
NYT - Children’s Paperback Books
Read-Alikes for the Dork Diaries
Description
When Rafe Khatchadorian enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.
45) 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...
46) Skate
Author
Publisher
Knopf : Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Facing a disintegrating home life and trouble at school, teenager Ian McDermott runs away with his younger brother to Washington State in search of safety, justice, and their long-absent father.
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"--
Author
Series
Yona of the dawn volume 2
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"While on the run, Yona and Hak head to Hak's hometown, where she attempts to heal her brokent heart. However, she can't rest there for long once she discovers that Su-won may soon become king! What will Yona choose to do in the wake of this news?"--
50) Vanish
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Simone is assigned to mentor a kindergarten student as a part of her leadership class, she finds herself enjoying the relationship, but soon begins to suspect that something is very wrong with her student's family.
51) Beetle Boy
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Terrible memories resurface when Charlie's girlfriend asks questions about his childhood.
Author
Series
Year of luminous love volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-olds Ciana Beauchamp, Arie Winslow, and Eden McLauren of Tennessee rely on their close friendship as they face serious problems the summer before they start college, from parents' illnesses, to cancer, to two loving the same cowboy.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Macy, officially labeled "disturbed" by her school, records her impressions of her rough neighborhood and home life as she tries to rescue her brother from Child Protective Services, win back her overachieving best friend after a fight, and figure out whether to tell her incarcerated father about her mother's cheating.
54) Game changer
Author
Series
Field party novels volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Ezmita Ramos has always had big plans for her future, ones that would take her far outside the Lawton city limits. But with overprotective parents who control every part of her life, she’s worried that these dreams will never become reality. There’s nothing Asa Griffith wants more than to leave Lawton. It’s his senior year and he’s all set to attend Ole Miss in the fall, but a part of him also worries about what will happen if he leaves his...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Seventh-grader Zoey Albro focuses on caring for three younger siblings and avoiding rich classmates at school until her fascination with octopuses gets her on the debate team and she begins to speak out.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Franny's estranged uncle comes home to help out after Nana's accident, some long-guarded family secrets come to light, forcing Franny to confront the discoveries she makes about her troubled absent mother, and herself.
"Twelve-year-old Franny Petroski never lets anyone know how often she thinks of the charismatic, troubled mom who left her years ago—any more than she talks about the unaccountable things Mom did while she was...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
When his volatile father is picked to become an astronaut for NASA's mission to Mars, seventeen-year-old Cal, an aspiring journalist, reluctantly moves from Brooklyn to Houston, Texas, and looks for a story to report, finding an ally (and crush) in Leon, the son of another astronaut.
58) Swing it, Sunny!
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In the mid-1970s Sunny Lewin is back, star of her personal show, facing the prospect of Middle School, and dealing with the problems of her somewhat dysfunctional family--in particular her older brother, Dale, who has been sent off to a military academy because of his delinquent behavior.
59) Patina
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A newbie to the track team, Patina "Patty" Jones must learn to rely on her family and teammates as she tries to outrun her personal demons"--
60) A map to the sun
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Follows a year in the life of Ren, dealing with family troubles, her role on a struggling girls' basketball team, and the return of her old friend Luna, who hopes to rekindle their friendship.
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