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Author
Series
Pub. Date
1990, c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer.
24) Hawksong
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In a land that has been at war so long that no one remembers the reason for fighting, the shapeshifters who rule the two factions agree to marry in the hope of bringing peace, despite deep-seated fear and distrust of each other. Danica Shardae is an avian shapeshifter, and the golden hawk's form in which she takes to the sky is as natural to her as the human one that graces her on land. The only thing more familiar to her is war: It has raged between...
25) Jean and Johnny
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jean tries very hard to make a good impression on Johnny, who seems to be everything she wants in a boyfriend.
29) Carlota
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1980, c1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A young girl relates her feelings and experiences as a participant in the battle of San Pasqual during the last days of the war between the Californians and Americans.
30) The haunting
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The walls whisper. The ceilings shriek. No one can survive a night of terror inside Graymoss. The old plantation house has been in Lia's family since the Civil War, but it's been possessed for generations by a malicious spirit, and Lia's family has always stayed far away. Now her parents have decided to move into Gryamoss, and lIa must either change their minds or chase away the horror lurking inside the old house. Using clues from her great-great-grandmother's...
31) Lizard music
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Victor's parents go away for two weeks. It is while staying up late watching television that he discovers evidence of a secret community of intelligent lizards. In fact there seems to have been an invasion from outer space that went almost unnoticed.
34) What Janie found
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012, c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
While still adjusting to the reality of having two families, her birth family and the family into which she was kidnapped as a small child, seventeen-year-old Janie makes a shocking discovery about her long-gone kidnapper.
36) Land of hope
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Rebekah, a fifteen-year-old Jewish immigrant arriving in New York City in 1902, almost abandons her dream of getting an education when she is forced to work in a sweatshop.
38) Heaven Eyes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Having escaped from their orphanage on a raft, Erin, January, and Mouse float down into another world of abandoned warehouses and factories, meeting a strange old man and an even stranger girl with webbed fingers and little memory of her past.
40) Garden of angels
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Fourteen-year-old Darcy's life undergoes a drastic change when her mother is diagnosed with breast cancer in 1974 and is unable to help Darcy deal with the teenage struggles of starting high school, falling in love, and worrying about the Vietnam War.