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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the moon's gravitational pull increases, causing massive natural disasters on earth, Miranda and her family struggle to survive in a world without cities or sunlight, and wonder if anyone else in still alive.
Author
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
1984.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! "Junior high will be a blast," promises Andrea Manetti's best friend. But while exciting things are happening at school-new friends, boys, and a chance to star in the musical-Andrea's home life is falling apart. Her parents are always fighting; her mom's new job means Andrea has to help more with the family. And then there's Andrea's brother....
Author
Series
Rayne Tour volume 1
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When a frightening murder occurs after one of her famous mother's rock concerts, sixteen-year-old Shayley tries to help the police find the killer and to determine whether her long-lost father has some connection to the crime.
5) Runner
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Living with his alcoholic father on a broken-down sailboat on Puget Sound has been hard on seventeen-year-old Chance Taylor, but when his love of running leads to a high-paying job, he quickly learns that the money is not worth the risk.
6) Last breath
Author
Series
Rayne Tour volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
For sixteen-year-old Shayley, a dying man's last words about her long-lost father are almost worse than the violence and murders occurring during her famous mother's rock concert tour, and she is driven to find out if they are true.
7) Twelve
Author
Series
Winnie years volume 2
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Winnie relates the events of her twelth year and the many changes in her relationships and in her attitude toward growing up.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Belle resents the presence of her sophisticated cousin on a family vacation in the summer of 1942, but their strained relationship is overshadowed by the war in Europe.
Author
Series
Dark Divine novels volume 1
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Grace Divine, almost seventeen, learns a dark secret when her childhood friend--practically a brother--returns, upsetting her pastor-father and the rest of her family, around the time strange things are happening in and near their small Minnesota town.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1982.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Tree, resentful of her working mother who leaves her in charge of a retarded brother, encounters the ghost of her dead uncle and comes to a deeper understanding of her family's problems.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In Lily Dale, New York, a community dedicated to the religion of Spiritualism, tenth-grader Sparrow Delaney, the youngest daughter in an eccentric family of psychics, agonizes over whether or not to reveal her special abilities in order to help a friend.
12) Golden arm
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Lazarus Weathers, a high school senior from the wrong side of the tracks, seeks to protect his half-brother while pitching his way out of poverty, one strike at a time.
13) On the rocks
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"In this high-interest novel for middle readers, 14-year-old Dylan, sent to live on a remote island with his estranged grandfather, discovers a stranded orca."--
Fourteen-year-old Dylan is sent to live with his estranged grandfather, Angus. Basically strangers, the two avoid each other as best they can. One day Dylan discovers a young orca stranded high up on the rocky beach. Dylan runs to tell his grandfather. There's nothing that can be done, says...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While searching for the father who left her and her mother ten years ago, thirteen-year-old Samantha begins to believe that the twin sister who supposedly died when they were three years old is still alive.
15) Crazy
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old loner Jason struggles to hide his father's declining mental condition after his mother's death, but when his father disappears he must confide in the other members of a therapy group he has been forced to join at school.
Author
Series
Airhead novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Studious, socially conscious Emerson Watts learns startling news about the family of Nikki Howard, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted by the nefarious Stark corporation.
17) Feathers
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to live with her family.
19) Defining Dulcie
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Dulcie's father dies, her mother makes a decision to move them to California, where Dulcie makes an equally radical decision to steal her dad's old truck and head back home.
Author
Publisher
West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Philip is the son of two Evangelical youth pastors. He also secretly helps his older brother pay for his heroin addiction. When a massive tornado touches down in their small town, Philip's family becomes heavily involved in the post-disaster cleanup as Philip struggles with the return of his detoxing brother. With his life swept into sudden chaos, Philip grapples with questions that cut him to the core."
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