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2) Verify
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Chicago teen Meri Beckley's pride of living in a land of peace, prosperity, and truth crumbles when questions following her mother's death reveal buried facts, especially that words can have great power.
When Meri Beckley looks at the peaceful Chicago streets, she feels pride in the era of unprecedented hope and prosperity over which the governor presides. But when her mother is killed, Meri suddenly has questions that no one else seems to be asking....
Author
Series
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
With Finch's help, Alice escaped the Hinterland and her reclusive grandmother's dark legacy. Now she and the rest of the dregs of the fairy tale world have washed up in New York City, where Alice is trying to make a new, unmagical life. But something is stalking the Hinterland's survivors--and she suspects their deaths may have a darker purpose. Meanwhile, in the winking out world of the Hinterland, Finch seeks his own adventure, and a way back home....
6) Defiance
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
While vacationing in the country, eleven-year-old Toby, a cancer patient, learns some important lessons about living and dying from an elderly poet and her cow.
8) Pax
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back.
Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's house three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should be - with Pax. He strikes out on his...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When the patriarch of twelve-year-old Bean's sharecropping community dies, Bean gets a lesson in not only what it means to lose someone you love, but also in how his family and friends care for their dead"--
11) Brother, brother
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After his grandmother's death, seventeen-year-old Brother sets out, with the abandoned son of a friend, on a 200-mile trip to North Carolina's Outer Banks to find his twin brother, of whose existence he just learned.
Author
Publisher
Harper Festival
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sister Bear loves taking care of her pet goldfish, Goldie. Sister feeds Goldie every morning and evening, cleans out her tank, and even gets her a beautiful fishbowl castle! But when Papa and Mama find Goldie floating belly-up in her tank, they worry about how Sister will feel. How will the Bear family cope with the loss of Goldie, the best goldfish in the world?
13) Catch the light
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After the death of her father, Marigold leaves California behind to live with her aunt in rural New York where she feels caught between her old life and new one when she forms a special connection with a fellow photographer.
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Since her sister's tragic death, seventeen-year-old Callie Ryan has basically given up. Her grades have plummeted, she's quit her swim team, and she barely recognizes the people her parents once were. When she returns to her aunt's run-down coastal Victorian one year after Chloe's death, Callie resigns herself to a summer of guilt and home renovations. She doesn't expect to be charmed by the tiny coastal town or by Tucker Morgan, a local boy brimming...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed. Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters and their father and stepmother. Once there were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last -- the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge -- and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The people of fourteenth-century Florence, Italy, starving after years of bad weather and natural disasters, now face the Black Plague but twelve-year-old Maria is determined to survive. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.
17) Scythe
Author
Series
Arc of a Scythe volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed (gleaned) by professional reapers (scythes). Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythe's apprentices, and despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation they must learn the art of killing and come to understand the necessity of what they do. Only one of them will be chosen as a scythe's apprentice. And when it becomes clear that the...
18) Last man out
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Tommy Gallagher, the bravest and toughest football player on the field, faces his biggest battle ever when his father, a Boston firefighter, is fatally injured while rescuing a child.