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22) Zero to hero
Author
Series
Ghost buddy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When Billy Broccoli moves into his new house, he discovers Hoover Porterhouse, a teenage ghost, is haunting his room, and he helps Billy get in style, stand up to bullies, and conquer his new school.
Author
Series
Mysterious Benedict Society volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Before there was a mysterious Menedit Society, there was simply a boy named Nicholas Benedit. Nine-year-old Nicholas Benedict, an orphan afflicted with an unfortunate nose and with narcolepsy, is sent to a new orphanage where he encounters vicious bullies, selfish adults, strange circumstances, and a mystery that could change his life forever.
25) The Outsiders
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society. When it was first published in 1967, The Outsiders defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world. Thirty years later, it speaks to teenagers as powerfully as ever. Puffin is proud to publish...
26) Scaredy Cat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Confronted by a bullying cat ghost when they move in with their new human family, two former shelter cats are blamed for all kinds of mischief before endeavoring to uncover the ghost's story.
Author
Series
Pain and the Great One volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
More adventures at school and at home with Jake, a first-grader, and his older sister Abigail, known to each other as the Pain and the Great One.
28) On thin ice
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
The way twelve-year-old Ked Eakins of Norton, Maine, sees it his life has been stolen from him, piece by piece; first by kyphosis, a spinal abnormality which has made him a social outcast at school and a target for the school bully, by his friends who have recently abandoned him, by his mother who left for the West Coast taking the insurance which might have saved him with her, and by his father who is a gambling addict who has lost the rent money--but...
Author
Series
Tangled in time volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"When Princess Mary ascends the throne in sixteenth-century England, Rose is forced to leave Princess Elizabeth and serve Mary. Mary’s coronation is coming, and Rose will be put to work making elaborate gowns. But the religiously devout queen’s next plan is to begin her attack on Protestants—burning them at the stake! Rose’s dad, master spy and goldsmith for the court, urges Rose to escape to her home century, present day Indiana, where Rose...
30) George
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. George really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte. But the teacher says she can't even try out for the part...because she's a boy. With the help of her best friend, Kelly, George comes up with a plan....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Rory Rooney likes to be prepared for anything, but when he inexplicably turns green and finds himself in an experimental hospital ward with his nemesis, school bully Tommy-Lee "Grim" Komissky, everyone is baffled but Rory believes he and Grim have become superheroes.
32) Hit & miss
Author
Series
The contract (Derek Jeter) volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Young Derek Jeter's friendship with a new student puts him at odds with his friends and seems to be hurting his baseball swing, plus he gets in trouble for confronting a student who is bullying his sister, in violation of the contract with his parents.
33) Leverage
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Description
High school sophomore Danny excels at gymnastics but is bullied, like the rest of the gymnasts, by members of the football team, until an emotionally and physically scarred new student joins the football team and forms an unlikely friendship with Danny.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Before, Taylor Harper is finally popular, sitting with the cool kids at lunch, and maybe, just maybe, getting invited to the biggest, most exclusive party of the year. After, no one talks to her. Before, she’s friends with Brielle Branson, the coolest girl in school. After, Brielle has become a bully, and Taylor’s her favorite target. Before, home isn’t perfect, but at least her family is together. After, Mom won’t get out of bed, Dad...
35) Home games
Author
Pub. Date
p2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Twelve-year-old Ben is a shy, quiet kid. His life isn't perfect, but he feels at home in his New York City apartment. Then his dad takes a job in London, and everything changes. His parents separate, and Ben's mom moves them back to her hometown of Austin, Texas. Ben's simple life is suddenly complicated. He misses his apartment, his best friend, Jake, and his dad. Then he meets Mabley, who becomes a bright spot to Ben's day. But when his mom starts...
37) Rotters
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Sixteen-year-old Joey's life takes a very strange turn when his mother's tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he has never known, and who is the town pariah.
Author
Pub. Date
p2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In a small East Texas town largely ruled by prejudices and bullies, fourteen-year-old Austin sets out to win a ride in the next parade and, in the process, grows in her understanding of friendship and helps her widowed mother through her mourning.