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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm. All summer, Jess pushed himself to be the fastest boy in the fifth grade, and when the year's first school-yard race was run, he was going to win. But his victory was stolen by a newcomer, by a girl, one who didn't even know enough to stay on the girls'...
2) Croak
Author
Series
Croak trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
A delinquent sixteen-year-old girl is sent to live with her uncle for the summer, only to learn that he is a Grim Reaper who wants to teach her the family business.
3) Mockingbird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
4) Who I kissed
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Samantha didn't mean to hurt anyone. She was just trying to fit in... And she wanted to make Zee a little jealous after he completely ditched her for a prettier girl. So she kissed Alex. And then he died--right in her arms. Sam is now the school pariah and a media sensation. Consumed with guilt, she'll have to find strength that goes way deeper than the fastest time in the 200-meter butterfly. Because if she can't figure out how to forgive herself,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Estranged from the best friend whose brother killed her sister in a school shooting, a grieving Cora receives a message on her twelfth birthday from her friend, asking for her help with creating a time portal to prevent the tragedy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the loss of her mother, Allie is sent from Tennessee to Maine to become the daughter of Miss Beatrice Lovell, a prim woman with a faith Allie cannot accept. Clinging to the past is comforting but will it cost Allie her chance to be loved?
7) Entwined
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Confined to their dreary castle while mourning their mother's death, Princess Azalea and her eleven sisters join The Keeper, who is trapped in a magic passageway, in a nightly dance that soon becomes nightmarish.
8) Impact
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his brother is murdered, Jordan and his parents must find a way to deal with their grief and get through the murder trial.
9) Irises
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kate, eighteen, and Mary, sixteen, must make some adult decisions about the course their lives should take when their loving but old-fashioned father dies suddenly, leaving them with their mother, who has been in a persistant vegetative state since an accident four years earlier.
10) Grave mercy
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts--and a violent destiny.
Author
Series
These violent delights volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.--
Author
Series
Madison Avery novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spunky teen Madison, though technically dead, uses a stolen amulet to retain the illusion of a body and help her in the struggle between Light and Dark reapers.
14) Tim's goodbye
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Language
English
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Description
A group of children says goodbye to a beloved pet turtle who has died.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Sam McQueen, who has leukemia, writes a book during the last three months of his life, in which he tells about what he would like to accomplish, how he feels, and things that have happened to him.
16) No time to cry
Author
Series
Dawn Rochelle novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Dawn's fear that her leukemia will return interferes with her ability to enjoy life.
17) Mortal heart
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Annith's worst fears are realized when she discovers that, despite her lifelong training to be an assassin, she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever shut up in the convent of Saint Mortain.
18) Chanda's secrets
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
A girl's struggle amid the African AIDS pandemic, Chanda, is an astonishingly perceptive girl living in the small city of Bonang, a fictional city in Southern Africa. When her youngest sister dies, the first hint of HIV/AIDS emerges, Chanda must confront undercurrents of shame and stigma. Not afraid to explore the horrific realities of AIDS, Chanda's Secrets also captures the enduring strength of loyalty, friendship and family ties. Above all, it...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old tomboy, Megan McCaffery is just beginning to enjoy growing up when her mother is diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor. Suddenly, her life is turned upside down, her hurt and anger coming between Megan and everyone she cares about, until she realizes what her real priorities are.
20) Umbrella summer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her brother Jared dies, ten-year-old Annie worries about the hidden dangers of everything, from bug bites to bicycle riding, until she is befriended by a new neighbor who is grieving her own loss.
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