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1) Angel sister
Author
Series
Rosey Corner novels volume 1
Description
It is 1936 and Kate Merritt, the middle child of Victor and Nadine, works hard to keep her family together. Her father slowly slips into alcoholism and his business suffers during the Great Depression. As her mother tries to come to grips with their situation and her sisters seem to remain blissfully oblivious to it, it is Kate who must shoulder the emotional load. Who could imagine that a dirty, abandoned little girl named Lorena Birdsong would be...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
600L
Description
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
Author
Series
Winter Street Inn novels volume 4
Description
Raise one last glass with the Quinn Family at the Winter Street Inn. It's been too long since the entire Quinn family has been able to celebrate the holidays under the same roof, but that's about to change. With Bart back safe and sound from Afghanistan, the Quinns are preparing for a holiday more joyous than any they've experienced in years. And Bart's safe return isn't the family's only good news: Kevin is enjoying married life with Isabelle; Patrick...
4) Dead to you
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
620L
Formats
Description
Ethan was abducted from outside his house when he was just seven years old. Now, at sixteen, he has returned to his family. It's a miracle, at first. Then tensions start to build, and his family begins to fall apart all over again. If only Ethan could remember something, anything, about his life before, he'd be able to put the pieces back together. But there's something keeping his memory blocked, something unspeakable. -- Back cover.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
Description
As a series of brutal murders darkens the Wrightsburg, Virginia countryside, the killer taunts police by leaving watches on the victims set to the hour corresponding with their position on his hit list. What's more, he strives to replicate notorious murders of the past, improving on them through savage attention to detail. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are already investigating a crime involving an aristocratic and dysfunctional Southern family,...
6) Sunny
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
700L
Description
Sunny tries to shine despite his troubled past in this third novel in the critically acclaimed Track series from National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds. Ghost. Patina. Sunny. Lu. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds, with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team--a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics. They all have a lot to lose, but they...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Josephine falls through a worm-hole in her garden shed into another time and place, she realizes the troubles she has at home are minor compared to what she has to tackle now in the world where she has landed.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness. The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother's former nurse, the little half-brother isn't allowed to do or eat anything fun, and the eldest siblings are irritatingly perfect. Then, there's Merit. Merit Voss...
11) Burned
Author
Series
Burned volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
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.
12) White fur flying
Author
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.
Author
Series
Millennium novels (Stieg Larsson) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 27
Description
The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a libel case, to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance. Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old, pierced, tattooed genius hacker, possessed...
14) Patina
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
710L
Formats
Description
"Patina, "Patty" Jones is the fastest girl on the Defenders track team. A newbie to the track team, Patty must learn to rely on her family and teammates as she tries to outrun her problems. She runs to show the kids that taunt her at her fancy new school that she's going to be someone some day. She runs for her fellow newbie teammates to make them proud. She runs to show her little sister Maddy how to be strong and brave. And she runs for her mother,...
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