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Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
242 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While longing to return to life in New York City, thirteen-year-old Penny helps her mother and grandmother run a cupcake bakery in Hog's Hollow, tries to avoid the beastly popular girls, to be a good friend to quirky Tally, and to catch the eye of enigmatic Marcus.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
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.
3) Identical
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st paperback ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
565 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.
4) Tricks
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
627 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Avery moves to rural Georgia to live with her ailing grandmother, she encounters decade-old family secrets and a mystery surrounding the town's racist past.
6) Hot hand
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In the wake of his parents' separation, ten-year-old Billy seems to have continual conflicts with his father, who is also his basketball coach, but his quiet, younger brother Ben, a piano prodigy, is having even more trouble adjusting, and only Billy seems to notice.
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When his best friend disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, thirteen-year-old Theo uses his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chase down the truth and save April.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Raised by his grandparents, first in Mississippi then in Wisconsin, ten-year-old Lymon moves to Chicago in 1945 to live with the mother he never knew, while yearning for his father.
Author
Series
Stuntboy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Meet Stuntboy. He's the newest superhero in town. Or in the apartment building. Or at least in his own head. He'll save you from baddies like Herbert Singetary the Worst. The Worry Wiggles. And the Mean Time. Or he WILL once he save himself. Oh, and the cat. He's gotta save the cat. Or... does the cat save him?
10) Deep water
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When a dive off the coast of Alabama goes horribly wrong, twelve-year-old Julie and one of her father's scuba clients struggle to survive after reaching an abandoned oil rig.
11) Towers falling
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"While learning about September 11th, fifth grader Deja (born after the attacks) realizes how much the events still color her world"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Rafe Khatchadorian enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.
Author
Series
Ramona Quimby volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Kevin is very good at lying and doing so makes life easier, but when he finds himself in big trouble with his friends, family, and teachers, he must find a way to end his lies forever.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In Auburn, Pennsylvania, a farming community overrun with crows, high school senior Leighton struggles to keep herself and her sisters safe from their abusive father even as she starts a relationship.
Author
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1775, in Boston, Massachusetts, as the British siege brings increasing hardships and growing resentment to the community, eleven-year-old Kate decides to go against her Loyalist parents and help her cousin spy for the Patriots.
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When his best friend Woody is arrested--an unwitting accomplice to a robbery--Theodore Boone must work to prove his innocence"--
Theodore Boone is back on the case in an all-new adventure! Bestselling author John Grisham delivers a page-turning legal thriller for a new generation of readers. Theo has been worried about his good friend Woody Lambert. Woody is struggling at school and making bad choices. But when Woody is arrested--an unwitting accomplice...
19) Patina
Author
Series
Track volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A newbie to the track team, Patina "Patty" Jones must learn to rely on her family and teammates as she tries to outrun her personal demons"--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404, 12 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the death of a man who may have been a casualty of a prank gone wrong, detective Jim Clemo is embroiled in a public debate surrounding the victim and his best friend, a Somali refugee who is unwilling or unable to reveal what happened.