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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Tormented by her guilt and classmate's taunts since she accidentally set a lethal fire as a child, Cassidy is implicated in her worst bully's murder and must find the killer before someone else dies.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations. Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was...
5) Metro girl
Author
Publisher
Harpercollins
Pub. Date
©2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When her wild and womanizing younger brother goes missing in southern Florida, Alexandra Barnaby endures humidity, sunburn, and bugs in her search for him alongside Sam Hooker, who believes Barnaby's brother has stolen his boat.
6) Blood feud
Author
Series
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
As the clans gather for the coronation of the next vampire queen, new alliances are beginning to form and the power of the clan leaders is threatened by a would-be usurper.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
When his father and sister are injured in an accident that has rendered his father comatose, estranged son Edward decides to stop his father's life support so that his organs can be donated, a choice his sister urges him to reconsider.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Grace, adopted at birth, is raised as an only child. At sixteen she's just put her own baby up for adoption, and now is looking for her biological family. She discovers Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio twin sister who was also adopted ; and Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother after seventeen years in the foster care system. Grace struggles to between cautious joy at having found...
Author
Series
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution"--
10) Legend
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
11) Bruiser
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Brontë befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 41
Language
English
Description
"A masterpiece that can compare with Steinbeck's East of Eden. … Some books make you laugh; some make you cry; some make you think. The Prince of Tides is a rarity: It does all three." - Detroit Free Press
A modern American classic and a family saga that spans decades, this is the story of the volatile Tom Wingo, his brilliant but troubled twin sister, Savannah, and the complex and damaging family legacy they share. Moving between the sparkling...
Author
Series
Flame in the Mist volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"After an attempt is made on her life, Mariko disguises herself as a boy and infiltrates a gang of bandits known as the Black Clan, determined to hunt down the person responsible"--
14) O pioneers!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Swedish farmer John Bergson's daughter Alexandra encourages the family members to help keep his dream alive after his death.
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
16) Blood Moon
Author
Series
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When the vampire tribes convene for the rare Blood Moon ceremonies, family secrets and forbidden magic put all of the Drakes in danger, and Nicholas is caught between saving his little sister Solange or his girlfriend Lucy.
17) Waves
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Hal feels eerily connected to his comatose older sister as she hovers between life and death in a hospital. Hal believes his sister is trying to communicate with him as he tries to solve the mystery of her accident.
18) Williwaw!
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In their father's absence, thirteen-year-old September and her younger brother Ivan disobey his orders by taking the boat out on their Alaska bay, where they are caught in a terrifying storm called a williwaw.
Author
Publisher
Viking/Penguin
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret.
But Caroline,
...20) On the fence
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Charlie has always been a tomboy, but when she accidentally becomes a makeup model, her newfound feminity draws her into an unknown social world, complete with guy troubles she's never had before"--