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81) The solitary
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
With her mother in prison for killing her father, seventeen-year- old Jane seeks to escape her past and find self-reliance breeding rabbits on their Arkansas homestead.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever.
83) Burned
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
84) Over the river
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1947, after the war, Willa Mae's father returns to the Illinois town where she has lived with her maternal grandparents for the last five of her eleven years, and Willa Mae finds herself struggling to understand old family tensions and secrets.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Hank's mother does not come home after a week, he and his toddler sister, Boo, seek out the stranger listed as their emergency contact, even though it means social workers, a new school, and having to answer questions about his mom that he has been trying to keep secret.
86) Dead to you
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse/Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Having been abducted at age seven, abandoned, a foster child, and homeless, Ethan, now sixteen, is happy to be home until his brother's suspicion and his own inability to remember something unspeakable from his early childhood begin to tear the family apart.
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