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1) Criss Cross
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
Author
Series
Amazing Grace (Picture books) volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1991.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.
3) Fairest
Author
Series
Ella enchanted volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a land where beauty and singing are valued above all else, Aza eventually comes to reconcile her unconventional appearance and her magical voice, and learns to accept herself for who she truly is.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Josie, a fifteen-year-old high school sophomore, is smart, funny, and very much her own person, but when popular senior Carson Gold starts wooing her, she cannot resist his attention.
6) The lovebird
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Harboring sympathy for helpless creatures, Margie falls in love with her charismatic but troubled Latin professor and joins a group of animal-rights activists whose activities force her to take refuge on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana.
7) Raven's gate
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.
9) Pillage
Author
Series
Pillage trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Upon his mother's death, fifteen-year-old Beck Phillips is sent to live with an eccentric uncle he had never met in a remote manor house, where he learns that his family suffers from a curse that allows him to make plants grow on command and dragon eggs hatch.
11) Guess what?
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1990.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Through a series of questions to which the reader must answer yes or no, the personality and occupation of a lady called Daisy O'Grady are revealed.
13) Jerk, California
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Plagued by Tourette's syndrome and a stepfather who despises him, Sam meets an old man in his small Minnesota town who sends him on a road trip designed to help him discover the truth about his life.
14) Boy proof
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Feeling alienated from everyone around her, Los Angeles high school senior and cinephile Victoria Denton hides behind the identity of a favorite movie character until an interesting new boy arrives at school and helps her realize that there is more to life than just the movies.
15) Hard love
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After starting to publish a zine in which he writes his secret feelings about his lonely life and his parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old John meets an unusual girl and begins to develop a healthier personality.
16) Why a disguise?
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates how a disguise can be used to evade the school bully, Mom's lima beans, and other unpleasant things.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Follows sixteen-year-old Zoë through the first thirty-one days after Henry, her boyfriend of six months, breaks up with her, as she moves from being obsessed with getting back together to finding herself again.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2009, 2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Lebanese-Australian Jamilah, known in school as Jamie, hides her heritage from her classmates and tries to pass by dyeing her hair blonde and wearing blue-tinted contact lenses, until her conflicted feelings become too much for her to bear.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato - where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies...
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