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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 5
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Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, alternate telling how race, wealth, weight, and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but influential classmate, even as they are uncovering a long-kept secret about themselves.
62) Lucy the giant
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lucy, the largest girl in her school, leaves her small Alaska town and her alcoholic father and discovers hardship--and friendship--posing as an adult aboard a commercial fishing boat.
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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.
64) Identical
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
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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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
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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.
66) Touching snow
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
After her stepfather is arrested for child abuse, thirteen-year-old Karina's home life improves but while the severity of her older sister's injuries and the urging of her younger sister, their uncle, and a friend tempt her to testify against him, her mother and other well-meaning adults pursuade her to claim responsibility.
68) The music thief
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
Living in San Antonio, Texas, eleven-year-old Alma tries to cope with the drive-by shooting death of her favorite Latina singer, as well as deal with the struggles of her various family members, and finds herself doing something she knows is wrong.
69) I'll be there
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
Raised by an unstable father, Sam has long been the voice of his silent younger brother, Riddle, but everything changes when Sam meets Emily and, welcomed by her family, the brothers are faced with normalcy for the first time.
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Publisher
Tundra Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Hartley Staples, near-graduate of middle school, is grappling with the fact that his older brother has run away from home, when he finds a handmade postcard that fascinates him. And soon he spots another. Despite his losing interest in pretty much everything since Jackson ran away, Hartley finds himself searching for cards in his small town at every opportunity, ignoring other responsibilities, namely choosing a topic for his final project. Who is...
73) Peaches: a novel
Author
Series
Peaches volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
Three teenaged girls from very different backgrounds, thrown together to pick peaches in a Georgia orchard, spend a summer in pursuit of the right boy, the truest of friends, and the perfect peach.
Author
Description
Alex Blackwood is really good at getting the girl she wants, but coming from a broken home with an alcoholic mother she finds committment difficult, even when she thinks she is in love; impossibly awkward Molly Parker has a crush on the cool Cora Myers, but she does not know how to even start a conversation, much less make a connection; now they are all at college in Pittsburgh Alex decides to "help" Molly get the girl, while proving to her own flame...
75) White fur flying
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Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
450L
Description
A sad and silent nine-year-old boy finds his voice when he moves next to a family that rescues dogs.
76) Burn girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
When her mother dies of a drug overdose, sixteen-year-old Arlie must adjust to living with an uncle she has never met and going to school on a regular basis.
77) Shooter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting.
78) Twisted
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.
79) Laguna Cove
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Anne's new life in Southern California feels more like a death sentence, with a different school, no friends, and family problems, so when she learns to surf in order to fit in, her efforts are not popular with everyone.
80) Hate list
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
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