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Author
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.
2) Check & mate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
After chess led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory Greenleaf's focus is a dead-end job that keeps the lights on for her mother and sisters. When she plays in a charity tournament and wipes the board with current world champion Nolan Sawyer, the victory opens the door to sorely needed cash prizes. Mallory struggles to keep her family separated from the game, but she soon realizes that the games aren't only on the board. The...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever.
4) Hate list
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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.
5) Pinned
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Dealing with family problems, girls, and their own competitive natures, high school seniors Ivan Korske and Bobby Zane face each other in the final match of the New Jersey State Wrestling Championship.
6) I am a taxi
Author
Series
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Living with his family in a prison in Bolivia due to his parents' convictions for drug trafficking, twelve-year-old Diego does his best to live a normal life, but when his mother receives additional fines, Diego risks everything to earn quick money.
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Slow Way Home is a warm, witty, fresh, and innovative novel." - --Homer Hickam, author of October Sky
"Slow Way Home is a gem -- both gritty and heartwarming at once. A wonderful, emotional read." - --Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls
"Slow Way Home is a novel for the heart. It is pitch perfect and the character Brandon is going to linger in a lot of minds. The opening chapter is one of the most poignant and poweful I have ever read. This is...
8) Burned
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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.
9) Tricks
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love.
10) Crunch
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The oldest Mariss brother, fourteen-year-old Dewey, attempts to be the "embodiment of responsibility" as he juggles the management of the family's bicycle repair business while sharing the household and farm duties with his siblings after a sudden energy crisis strands their parents far from home.
Author
Series
Cupcake queen volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2011, c2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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.
13) If I fix you
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When sixteen-year-old Jill Whitaker's mom walks out--with a sticky note as a goodbye--only Jill knows the real reason she's gone. but how can she tell her father? Jill can hardly believe the truth herself. Suddenly, the girl who likes to fix things--cars, relationships, romances, people--is all broken up. It used to be, her best friend, tall, blond, and hot flirt Sean Addison, could make her smile in seconds. But not anymore. They don't even talk....
14) Crank
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, she meets a boy who introduces her to crank. At first she finds it freeing, but soon Kristina's personality disappears inside the drug. What began as a wild, ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul, and her life.
15) Baby Blue
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In western Massachusetts in 1976, still grieving and guilt-ridden over her father's drowning, twelve-year-old Blue is dealt another blow when her older sister, Star, runs away to escape their stepfather's violence against their mother.
16) Just listen
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In Johannesburg, South Africa, in the late 1960s, twelve-year-old Emily, who longs for affection from her quarreling parents, finds comfort in the stories of a Zulu servant and in her friendship with a young houseguest who has an equally troubled family.
19) Roses and rot
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When sisters Imogen, a writer, and Marin, a dancer, are both accepted to an elite arts graduate program at Melete, it will pit sister against sister in order to escape the memories of their troubled past with their mother.
20) Trading places
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When fifth-grade twins, Amy and Todd, tackle a school project, they also have to cope with issues of friendship at school and problems at home, including their father's unemployment.
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