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2) Bruiser
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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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.
3) Rage
Author
Series
Riders of the Apocalypse volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Sixteen-year-old Missy copes with being an outcast at school and stress at home by cutting herself with a razor blade, until Death chooses her as one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, War, and offers her a new blade.
Author
Series
Ramona Quimby volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
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Description
When her father loses his job, seven-year-old Ramona Quimby thinks of ways to deal with the many problems that develop.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Devastated by her parents' decision to split up, pressured by her boyfriend to have sex, and saddled with a case of chicken pox, fifteen-year-old Keek finds consolation in her beloved, well-worn copy of Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar."
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
Continues the story of Wisconsin teenager and high school football player Felton Reinstein, how he relates to his friends Gus and Aleah and what he does when his little brother Andrew runs away on his way to orchestra camp.
7) Riverland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When their parents fight, sisters Eleanor and Mike hide, whispering stories and hoping house magic will protect them, until the night a river carries them to a place of dreams and nightmares.
Author
Series
Virago modern classics volume 620
Description
Jane lives in Toronto with her mother and grandmother. Then one day her father sends for her -- Jane didn't even know she had a father -- to come and visit him on Prince Edward Island. And no-one, not even her mother, has ever talked to her about him.
13) The postcard
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
While in St. Petersburg, Florida, to help clean out his recently-deceased grandmother's house, thirteen-year-old Jason finds an old postcard which leads him on an adventure that blends figures from an old, unfinished detective story with his family's past.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When their friend Scooter dies of a rare disease, teenagers Nick Gardner and Jaycee Amato set out on a secret journey to find the father who abandoned "The Scoot" when he was an infant, and give him a signed first edition of "Of Mice and Men."
16) Over the river
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In 1947, after the war, Willa Mae's father returns to the Illinois town where she has lived with her maternal grandparents for the last five of her eleven years, and Willa Mae finds herself struggling to understand old family tensions and secrets.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
Marly had been waiting a long time for this special momwnt. She sat alone in the car and stared at the lonely countryside and the small dilapidated house. It had to be the right place. All outdoors. With miracles. Not crowded and people being cross and mean. Daddy not tired all the time. Mothernot worried. She whispered, "Please let there be miracles."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Sana Kiyohara has too many secrets. Some are small, like how it bothers her when her friends don't invite her to parties. Some are big, like that fact that her father may be having an affair. And then there's the one that she can barely even admit to herself, the one about how she might have a crush on her best friend. When Sana and her family move to California she begins to wonder if it's finally time to be honest. Especially after...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: Robin Benway?s beautiful interweaving story of three very different teenagers connected by blood explores the meaning of family in all its forms?how to find it, how to keep it, and how to love it.