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Author
Publisher
in association with Realbuzz Studios
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Serenity Harper is the new girl in school and she seems determined to make everyone hate her. Derek, Kimberley, and the rest of the Prayer Club make it their project to be nice to her no matter how she treats them in order to bring her around to a Christian way of life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life.
84) Finding fortune
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Angry with her mother, twelve-year-old runaway Ren finds an unusual boarding house in a nearby ghost town, Fortune, where she meets some interesting people and learns of a forgotten treasure from when the town was famous for buttons made of Mississippi River shells.
85) Serenity
Author
Publisher
Realbuzz Studios
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Serenity Harper is the new girl in school and she seems determined to make everyone hate her. Derek, Kimberley, and the rest of the Prayer Club make it their project to be nice to her no matter how she treats them in order to bring her around to a Christian way of life.
86) Clean
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A group of teens in a Seattle-area rehabilitation center form an unlikely friendship as they begin to focus less on their own problems with drugs (including alcohol) by reaching out to help a new member, who seems to have even deeper issues to resolve.
Author
Series
Cow Boy volume 1
Publisher
Archaia Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Story of a young bounty hunter determined to send his entire outlaw family to jail. He travels the Old West on a horse that ain't his, and won't stop til every one'a his kin's in the clink.
88) The wild girls
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Joan moves to California in 1972, she becomes friends with Sarah, who is timid at school but an imaginative leader when they play in the woods, and after winning a writing contest together they are recruited for an exclusive summer writing class that gives them new insights into themselves and others.
89) Windsong
Author
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Growing up in a small Missouri town and feeling unloved at home, thirteen-year-old Marty is determined to find a way to keep a special greyhound puppy from the kennel where she works.
90) Fair maiden
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
Working at the Renaissance Fair, Jennifer finds her first love and an escape from family problems at home.
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.
92) Okay for now
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends, an abusive father, and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him until he finds an ally in Lil Spicer--a fiery young lady. Together, they find a safe haven in the local library, inspiration in learning about the plates of John James Audubon's birds, and a hilarious adventure on a Broadway stage.
93) Flyaway
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
Ariel, a high school senior in Wisconsin, dreams of running away from her domineering father who selfishly controls her life and those of her mother and sister.
95) AND THEN, BOOM!
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Poverty-stricken Joseph bravely rides out all the storms life keeps throwing at him.
96) 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.
97) Tilt
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Three teens, connected by their parents' bad choices, tell in their own voices of their lives and loves as Shane finds his first boyfriend, Mikayla discovers that love can be pushed too far, and Harley loses herself in her quest for new experiences.
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.
99) 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.
100) 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.
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