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Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Raymie Clarke has come to realize that everything, absolutely everything, depends on her. And she has a plan. If Raymie can win the Little Miss Central Florida Tire competition, then her father, who left town two days ago with a dental hygienist, will see Raymie's picture in the paper and (maybe) come home. To win, not only does Raymie have to do good deeds and learn how to twirl a baton; she also has to contend with the wispy, frequently fainting...
23) Leaving Paradise
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-olds Caleb and Maggie relate the difficulties of readjusting to school, and changing relationships with family, friends, and one another, a year after a drunk driving accident sent her to the hospital with a crippling leg injury and him to prison.
24) Poppy's return
Author
Series
Poppy and friends volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
25) Kick
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told in their separate voices, thirteen-year-old soccer star Kevin and police sergeant Brown, who knew his father, try to keep Kevin out of juvenile hall after he is arrested on very serious charges.
26) Awake at dawn
Author
Series
Shadow Falls novels volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Having settled in at Shadow Falls Camp, a training ground for vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural beings, sixteen-year-old Kylie Galen is eager to discover what her abilities might be, but an interfering ghost and a rogue vampire on a murdering rampage get in the way of her search.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lucille is struggling to get through each day, paying bills and looking after her little sister, Wren, while her father is institutionalized after a breakdown and her mother is "on vacation," but nothing else seems to matter when she is with Digby Jones, her best friend's twin brother.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adam not only is trying to understand his OCD, while trying to balance his relationship with his divorced parents, but he's also trying to navigate through the issues that teenagers normally face, namely the perils of young love.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
At seventeen, Daisy feels imprisoned by her brother Steven's autism and its effects and her only escape is through her trumpet into the world of jazz, but when her parents decide to send Steven to an institution she is not ready to let him go.
30) Learning to fall
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Daphne spends a vacation with her estranged father, whom she has not seen in years, and the pair bond over their love of skateboarding.
31) Shooter
Author
Publisher
Amistad/HarperTempest
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With their parents struggling to make ends meet, Lily and Ryan grow tired of always eating macaroni and cheese for supper and having their Grandma stay with them, but when Grandma hears their complaints she tells a story about the magic that snow angels can bring.
Author
Series
Ramona Quimby volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.
Author
Series
Touch novels volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Before Camelia and Ben can fully grasp the powerful bond brought about by their psychometry, an unresolved family tragedy resurfaces in Camelia's life, irrevocably changing everything she cares about.
38) High heat
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When sophomore Shane Hunter's father is arrested for money laundering at his Lexus dealership, the star pitcher's life of affluence and private school begins to fall apart.
39) Bang: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A new friend and their YouTube cooking channel help fourteen-year-old Sebastian move on from accidentally shooting his infant sister ten years earlier.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After her father returns from the war moody and tired, Marly's family decides to move from the city to Maple Hill Farm in the Pennsylvania countryside where they share many adventures which help restore their spirits and their bond with each other.
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