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21) Shadowlands
Author
Series
Shadowlands (Kate Brian) volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Rory, a girl in witness protection, thinks the serial killer she turned in has found her and is killing people around her. But as she investigates, she discovers a dark, disturbing truth about her new hometown"--
Author
Series
Dyamonde Daniel books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spunky third-grader Dyamonde Daniel misses her old neighborhood, but when she befriends a boy named Free, another new student at school, she finally starts to feel at home.
Author
Series
Trouble (Stephanie Tromly) volume 1
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After her parents' divorce, Zoe Webster moves from Brooklyn to upstate New York where she meets the weirdly compelling misfit, Philip Digby, and soon finds herself in a series of hilarious and dangerous situations as he pulls her into his investigation into the kidnapping of a local teenage girl which may be related to the disappearance of his kid sister eight years ago.
24) If only
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While adjusting to his family's move from California to Utah, and while the adults concerned about the looming Cuban Missile Crisis and his father recovering from an immune disorder, Eric meets Grace, his classmate and a runaway, and decides to hide her in the clubhouse in his backyard. Eric grows closer to Grace but can their new relationship survive the harsh realities of life?
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
©2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Siena's visions of the past intensify when her family moves to the Maine coast hoping her little brother will begin speaking, and she connects with residents of the house from many years earlier who faced a similar problem.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This powerful and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart—a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and an adventurous mapmaker's apprentice—"perfectly aligns with the cultural moment" (The Providence Journal) and "shows how interconnected two supposedly opposing worlds can be" (The New York Times Book Review).
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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with an unforgettable love story between a writer and his unexpected muse. Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon's last day in L.A. together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for his novel. Over time and amidst the various relationships...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Booklover Sadie Coleman knows that in life, as in fiction, the right setting can make a world of difference. The small town of Shady Creek, Vermont, seems like the perfect place to start over after losing her Boston job to a merger and her relationship to her ex's gambling addiction. She's bought and redecorated the old grist mill pub, transforming the Inkwell into a cozy spot where tourists and regulars alike can enjoy a pint or a literary-themed...
30) Book scavenger
Author
Series
Book scavenger volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just after twelve-year-old Emily and her family move to San Francisco, she teams up with new friend James to follow clues in an odd book they find, hoping to figure out its secrets before the men who attacked Emily's hero, publisher Garrison Griswold, solve the mystery or come after the friends.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The plan is to leave. As for how, when, to where, and even why--she doesn't know yet. So begins a journey for the twenty-four-year-old narrator of Days of Distraction. As a staff writer at a prestigious tech publication, she reports on the achievements of smug Silicon Valley billionaires and start-up bros while her own request for a raise gets bumped from manager to manager. When her long-time boyfriend, J, decides to move to a quiet upstate New...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A young woman moves to Los Angeles to escape her life and discovers she doesn't have to leave all of herself behind to make a fresh start, from USA Today bestselling author Abbi Waxman. When Laura Costello moves to Los Angeles, hoping to finally get away from her overprotective family, she doesn't expect to be homeless after a week. (She's almost certain she didn't start that fire . . . right?) When she's rescued by a charming but eccentric bookseller...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eliza Spalding Warren was just a child when she was taken hostage by the Cayuse Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now the young mother of two children, Eliza faces a different kind of dislocation; her impulsive husband wants them to make a new start in another territory, which will mean leaving her beloved home and her departed mother's grave--and returning to the land of her captivity. Eliza longs to know how her mother, an early missionary to the...
35) Little monsters
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Author
Series
Mallory McDonald books volume 1
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After moving to a new town, eight-year-old Mallory keeps throwing stones in the "Wishing Pond" but things will not go back to the way they were before, and she remains torn between old and new best friends.
37) Moving house
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Joey and Chloe and their family are getting ready to move, their house decides it wants to go too.
Author
Series
Alexander (Judith Viorst) volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Angry Alexander refuses to move away if it means having to leave his favorite friends and special places.
40) Amity
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Two teens narrate the terrifying days and nights they spend living in a house of horrors.
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