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1) Skellig
Author
Series
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1961 after Castro has come to power in Cuba, fourteen-year-old Lucia and her seven-year-old brother are sent to the United States when her parents, who are not in favor of the new regime, fear that the children will be taken away from them as others have been.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
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.
4) House arrest
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
While under house arrest for one year for stealing a wallet, young Timothy keeps free-verse notes on his life in a court-ordered journal as he deals with having a sick brother and tries to stay out of trouble.
5) Twelve
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out.
8) Ruby red
Author
Series
Ruby Red trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gwyneth discovers that she, rather than her well-prepared cousin, carries a time-travel gene, and soon she is journeying with Gideon, who shares the gift, through historical London trying to discover whom they can trust.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shawn McDaniel, almost fifteen, cannot speak and has no control over his body due to severe cerebral palsy, but he forms a strong connection with his mother's cousin Debi, who has Down Syndrome, and her dog Rusty.
10) Golden Arm
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Lazarus Weathers, a high school senior from the wrong side of the tracks, seeks to protect his half-brother while pitching his way out of poverty, one strike at a time.
11) Six feet over it
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Home is where the bodies are buried. Darkly humorous and heart-wrenchingly beautiful, Jennifer Longos YA debut about a girl stuck living in a cemetery will change the way you look at life, death, and love. Leigh sells graves for her family-owned cemetery because her father is too lazy to look farther than the dinner table when searching for employees. Working the literal graveyard shift, she meets two kinds of customers: Pre-Need: They know whats...
12) The chosen one
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In a polygamous cult in the desert, Kyra, not yet fourteen, sees being chosen to be the seventh wife of her uncle as just punishment for having read books and kissed a boy, in violation of Prophet Childs' teachings, and is torn between facing her fate and running away from all that she knows and loves.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miranda Evans, her two brothers, and their mother struggle for survival a year after the moon's collision with a meteor altered the climate forever, and while things become more difficult with the arrival of six more people, including her father and stepmother, a new disaster threatens to derail the new lives they have been trying to build.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Back home in Brooklyn, fifteen-year-old Viola has big summer plans but with one best friend going to camp and the other not only working but experiencing her first crush, Viola is glad to be overworked as an unpaid lighting intern when her grandmother's play goes to Broadway.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although they have never gotten along well, seventeen-year-old Levi follows his older brother Boaz, an ex-Marine, on a walking trip from Boston to Washington, D.C. in hopes of learning why Boaz is completely withdrawn.
16) If I Tell
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In this riveting contemporary YA read, she explores the consequences of keeping the ultimate secret. One small mistake. One giant secret. Jazz wasn't supposed to have seen her mother's boyfriend that night. Especially not making out with one of her friends! Worse yet, she goes to tell her mom and gets the ultimate bombshell: her mom's pregnant. Now, Jazz can never reveal what she's seen. No matter what. The only one who seems to understand her is...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
For a responsible sixteen-year-old, Michael Wilson has a lot of problems--his father was killed in Afghanistan in 2005, his overworked and overprotective mother will not talk about their situation, and does not want him playing football, and he has suddenly started to receive letters that his father wrote before his death.
Author
Series
Confessions volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Tandy Angel moves to Paris for a fresh start with her siblings and to be reunited with James, her lost love, but her detective work soon uncovers long-buried family secrets that threaten to destroy her life"--
20) Game
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him.
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