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Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Four years after her brother, Simon, drowned while in her charge, Francesca, now fifteen, begins to move on after a summer caring for Frankie, who seems to be Simon reincarnated, and getting closer to her best friend's boyfriend.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Joey navigates family, friendships, and her first crush, while looking for answers to why she feels so angry sometimes and by searching for the donor her moms chose.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
405 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a post-apocalyptic world, thirteen-year-old Eli, part of the most powerful family in the world, keeps noticing problems with the operations of his domed city but his family denies them, while in the surrounding desert, the Outsiders struggle to survive while awaiting a prophesied savior.
6) Twelve
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
202, 12 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Winnie relates the events of her twelth year and the many changes in her relationships and in her attitude toward growing up.
7) Zero day
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Suddenly returned to her high-profile family eight years after being kidnapped, sixteen-year-old Addie, whose parents are now the president and first lady, is spied on by her one-time best friend to determine if she is a threat to national security.
8) The fort
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a tight-knit group of middle school friends discover a trap door in the woods that leads to a completely intact bomb shelter, they vow to keep the place a secret while sharing their individual secrets to build the safest space possible.
9) Feathers
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
118 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Starting middle school brings all the usual challenges — until the unthinkable happens, and Fern and her family must find a way to heal.
Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible. It seems as though everyone in her family has better things to do than pay attention to her: Mom (when she's not meditating) helps Dad run the family restaurant; Sarah is taking a gap year after high school; and Holden pretends that Mom and Dad and everyone
11) Gathering blue
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
12) Trowbridge Road
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Struggling with her mother's advancing mental illness in the months after her father's death from complications of AIDS, a girl in the 1983 Boston suburbs befriends an imaginative boy with his own troubles before threats to her safety force her to make a difficult choice.
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Hannah's sister, Alexis, has been acting different lately. For one thing, she's constantly on her phone when she never used to care that much about it. But after Hannah discovers that Alexis has developed a relationship with a boy she met online, her strange behavior starts to make sense. What's worse, Alexis plans to skip out on college...
14) Faceless
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Growing up in 1943 war-torn England, thirteen-year-old Alice and her older sister Louise are members of a centuries-old spy clan, but when Louise decides to spy for the enemy, their bond is changed forever.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Louisa May Alcott has problems--her mother is taking a job over a hundred miles away to earn some money, leaving to it to Louisa to care for the family, her father refuses to work for money, a fugitive slave is seeking refuge in their house, and a slave catcher has been murdered, making the Underground Railroad much more dangerous.
17) Son
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
393 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
18) How Do You Live?
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The first English translation of the classic Japanese novel that has sold over 2 million copies-a childhood favorite of anime master Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle), with an introduction by Neil Gaiman.
First published in 1937, Genzaburō Yoshino's How Do You Live? has long been acknowledged in Japan as a crossover classic for young readers. Academy Award–winning animator Hayao Miyazaki has called...