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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible in her family, where grumpy eighteen-year-old Sarah is working at the family restaurant, fourteen-year-old Holden is struggling with school bullies and his emerging homosexuality, and adorable, three-year-old Charlie is always the center of attention, and when tragedy strikes, the fragile bond holding the family together is stretched almost to the breaking point.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place - he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings - such as the ability to Fade so mere mortals cannot see him. Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead? And then there...
5) The fort
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Five middle schoolers find a fully stocked bomb shelter constructed decades ago in the local woods by an eccentric tycoon and lost until a hurricane exposes the entrance. So, how to keep the hideout secret from interfering grown-ups--and, more particularly, from scary teen psychopath, Jaeger Devlin.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Waking up in the hospital seriously injured, Giselle reflects on her past choices to evaluate how her friends, her family, and especially her identical twin have defined her existence.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Toby, a prematurely gray-haired Pittsburgh Pirates fan and baseball card collector, tries to cope with his brother's drug use, his father's absence, and his mother dating Stanley the Food King.
Author
Series
Inheritance games volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught from the cradle to put family first. Now the great Tobias Hawthorne is dead and his family disinherited, but some lessons linger. When Grayson's half-sisters find themselves in trouble, he swoops in to do what he does best: take care of the problem--efficiently, effectively, mercilessly. And without getting bogged down in emotional entanglements. Jameson Hawthorne...
9) I'm not her
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When popular, sporty sister, Kristina, is diagnosed with cancer, her younger, brainy sister, Tess, is thrown into new roles as she becomes the center of the popular crowd and must be the strong one in her family.
10) Solo
Author
Publisher
Blink
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Blade endeavors to resolve painful issues from his past and navigate the challenges of his former rockstar father's addictions, scathing tabloid rumors, and a protected secret that threatens his own identity.
Author
Series
Cupcake queen volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While longing to return to life in New York City, thirteen-year-old Penny helps her mother and grandmother run a cupcake bakery in Hog's Hollow, tries to avoid the beastly popular girls, to be a good friend to quirky Tally, and to catch the eye of enigmatic Marcus.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Quiet Emily's sociable and daring best friend, Sloane, has disappeared leaving nothing but a random list of bizarre tasks for her to complete, but with unexpected help from popular classmate Frank Porter, Emily gives them a try.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Between school and Al-Anon meetings, Jenna helps Mrs. Gladstone cope with escalating problems that result from the merger of Gladstone Shoes with Shoe Warehouse Corporation, while managing a new employee with a shoplifting record.
15) Fifteenth summer
Author
Series
Sixteenth summer novels volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Chelsea and her family are spending the summer at a cottage on the shore of Lake Michigan where Chelsea meets and falls for Josh--the cute and shy employee at the new bookstore in town."--
16) Raised by wolves
Author
Series
Raised by wolves novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
A girl raised by werewolves must face the horrors of her past to uncover the dark secrets that the pack has worked so hard to hide.
Author
Series
Silver in the blood volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1897, seventeen-year-olds Dacia and Lou, New York socialites and cousins, visit their maternal homeland of Romania and learn the family secret--that they are shapeshifters, expected to take their rightful places, marry proper husbands, and serve the Dracula family.
18) Crystal storm
Author
Series
Falling kingdoms volume 5
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When Mytica is threatened by an epic clash between gods and mortals, Magnus and Cleo are forced to test the strength of their love in the face of a redemption-seeking King Gaius.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This no-holds-barred autobiography chronicles the remarkable life of Phil Robertson, the original Duck Commander and Duck Dynasty star, from early childhood through the founding of a family business.Life was always getting in the way of Phil Robertson's passion for duck hunting. An NFL-bound quarterback, Phil made his mark on Louisiana Tech University in the 1960s by playing football and completing his college career with a master's degree in English....
20) Skellig
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel.
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