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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"The two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt delivers the shattering story of Joseph, a father at thirteen, who has never seen his daughter, Jupiter. After spending time in a juvenile facility, he's placed with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn, meets twelve-year-old Jack, who narrates the account of the troubled, passionate teen who wants to find his baby at any cost. In this riveting novel, two boys...
2) Gutless
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"With both good speed and good hands, wide receiver Brock Ripley should be a natural for the varsity team, but he shies from physical contact. When his issues get him cut from varsity, he also loses his friendship with star quarterback Hunter Gates. Now a target for bullying, Brock struggles to overcome his fears and discover that, in his own way, he is brave enough"--
3) Camp Famous
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Abby learns she will be attending summer camp, she is excited at the idea of a fresh start, but when she discovers she is going to Camp Famous, a place exclusively for famous kids like pop stars, princesses, and geniuses, her enthusiasm turns to apprehension.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students...
5) The fort
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Five middle schoolers find a fully stocked bomb shelter constructed decades ago in the local woods by an eccentric tycoon and lost until a hurricane exposes the entrance. So, how to keep the hideout secret from interfering grown-ups--and, more particularly, from scary teen psychopath, Jaeger Devlin.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After a short stay with an FBI agent who gives them a chance to attend school and live a normal life, the six genetically-altered, winged youths head toward Florida and Max's ultimate destiny--to save the world, whether she wants to or not.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Huck escapes from the lonely cabin in which his drunken, brutal father had imprisoned him; on Jackson's island he meets Jim, a runaway slave. Together they float down the Mississippi River on a raft, occasionally stopping at the banks. In these brief episodes Huck participates in the lives of others, witnessing corruption, moral decay, and intellectual impoverishment. He learns from Jim of the dignity and worth of a human being.
Author
Series
DC icons volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Diana, Princess of the Amazons, journeys to the World of Man in this coming-of-age young adult story"--
Diana, Princess of the Amazons, longs to prove herself to her warrior sisters. When the opportunity comes, she throws away her chance at glory and breaks Amazon law to save a mere mortal. Alia Keralis just wanted to escape her overprotective brother with a semester at sea. When a bomb detonates aboard her ship, Alia is rescued and forced to confront...
9) First date
Author
Series
Dating games (Melody Carlson) volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Upperclassmen at Northwood Academy rarely date so Devon, a bored junior transfer student, persuades her friends Cassidy, Emma, Bryn, and Abby to form a club to help each other find dates for the Homecoming Dance.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "birdkids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.
Author
Series
Summer novels (Jenny Han) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.
12) The best friend
Author
Series
Life at Kingston High volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When high school junior Lishia Vance goes from being surrounded by her friends one day to a social outcast the next, without explanation, she discovers the treacherous world of friendship, loyalty, and choices.
13) The betrothed
Author
Series
Betrothed (Cass) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When King Jameson declares his love for Lady Hollis Brite, Hollis is shocked--and thrilled. After all, she's grown up at Keresken Castle, vying for the king's attention alongside other daughters of the nobility. Capturing his heart is a dream come true. But Hollis soon realizes that falling in love with a king and being crowned queen may not be the happily ever after she thought it would be. And when she meets a commoner with the mysterious power...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
High school senior Paige knows there is so much more to life after high school, but is it so terrible to want everything to stay the same forever?
What happens after happily ever after? It's senior year, and Paige Hancock is finally living her best life. She has a fun summer job, great friends, and a super charming boyfriend who totally gets her. But senior year also means big decisions. Weighing "the rest of her life," Paige feels her anxiety begin...
Author
Series
Summer novels (Jenny Han) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.
18) P.S. I like you
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Every day in chemistry class, high school student and aspiring songwriter Lily Abbott is finding notes left to her by a mystery boy, love letters really, and she hopes they are from Lucas, a boy she is attracted to--so when she finds out they are really from, she is shocked and unsure about how to respond.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Caitlin Singleberry is a proper Christian teenager and member of a family singing group, but today she has been given a truly impossible assignment--keep her cousin Heller Harrigan, Hollywood wild child, out of trouble for the last weekend before her first big movie debuts.
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