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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Ever since her mother left, Maia has struggled with depression, which has only gotten worse since her father remarried; so Maia decides run away to Canada to find her mother, together with Billy, a boy who now lives in a group home and has his own family tragedy--but when they finally arrive in Tadoussac, Quebec, Maia discovers that even her mother has been keeping secrets.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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It's not the end of the world, but for Rooney Harris it's starting to feel that way. It's the beginning of senior year, and her mom just lost her job. Even worse, she isn't planning to get another one. Instead, she's spending every waking moment with a group called the Next World Society, whose members are convinced they'll be leaving Earth behind on November 17. It sounds crazy to Rooney, but to her mother and younger brother it sounds like salvation....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Jordan Starling enters the eighth grade after an uneventful summer. To compete with one of the popular girls, she makes up a summer romance. The only problem is the "romance" was with Ryan, the son of her mother's best friend. Now, Ryan's parents have split up and Ryan and his mom are coming to live with the Starlings.
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So B. it volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is. Living with her mentally disabled mother who only knows just over twenty words, young Heidi has learned to live in her special world until a new word is suddenly used and repeated by her mother; causing Heidi to think it might be a key to a secret past about which she knows so little....
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Old Kingdom volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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This prequel to the Old Kingdom series tells the story of how Sabriel's parents, Terciel and Elinor, met.
In the Old Kingdom, a land of ancient and often terrible magics, orphan Terciel learns the art of necromancy from his great-aunt Tizanael. He is the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, and Tizanael is the Abhorsen, the latest in a long line of people whose task it is to make sure the Dead do not return to Life. Across the Wall in Ancelstierre, Elinor's only...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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In the aftermath of the accident that killed his foster father, high school student Jacob Fielding discovers that he has acquired the power of indestructibility, and the more he learns about it the more he realizes that it is a heavy burden, if not a curse.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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The debut novel from Andrew McCarthy-actor, director, and bestselling author of Brat: An 80s Story-is a powerful story about family secrets, first love, the limits of forgiveness, and finding your way in the world.
When fifteen-year-old Lucy Willows discovers that her father has a secret child from a brief affair, she begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her family. How could her father have betrayed them like this? How could...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"A boy deals with the recent loss of his mother and his odyssey to find a date for the end-of-year school dance"--
New Jersey seventh grader and class clown Denny Murphy has just lost his mother, his father is uncommunicative, he is in trouble with his teachers, and to top it all off, his best friend has a scheme to get dates for the end-of-year school dance.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Shoshanna Greenburg loves her job at the bookstore, Once Upon, until Jake Kaplan joins the staff, a handsome non-reader who challenges her for a bonus she needs.
Shoshanna Greenberg loves working at Once Upon, her favorite local bookstore. With her moms fighting at home, the store has become a welcome escape. When her boss announces a holiday bonus to the person who sells the most books, Shoshanna sees an opportunity to get her car fixed. The only...
10) Family Ties
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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When android teens join humans in high school, nothing will ever be the same.
Julie's family is very much anti-android. Her parents don't want androids in her school or even in their town. When Julie gets to know a group of androids at school, she questions whether her family's prejudices were correct. Then she learns her parents have joined an anti-android group and have plans to protest the androids at prom. Julie will have to choose between her...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Sara has never been out of the tiny town of Hope, Ontario, where she has been in an orphanage all her life. After a fire destroys the orphanage, clues about her parentage-a medical certificate and a Star of David-lead her to Germany. Despite her fears-she doesn't speak the language, she knows no one in Germany, and she's never been on an airplane-Sara arrives in Germany determined to explore her newly discovered Jewish heritage and solve the mystery...
12) Small Bones
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Dot, whose name reflects her stature, has always had big dreams-but her dreams have to be put on hold while she searches for the truth about her parents. She gets a job as a seamstress at a lakeside resort in rural Ontario and falls hard for Eddie, a charming local boy who is equal parts helpful and distracting as Dot investigates her past. Searching for answers to questions about her birth, Dot learns more than she ever wanted to about the terrible...
13) Escape Velocity
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Lou's dad has been addicted to painkillers since an accident left him unable to work. He's a good, loving dad, but kind of useless. Lou's mother, Zoe, a successful novelist, abandoned Lou at birth and showed no interest in her until three years ago, when Lou was twelve. Their relationship since then has been strained, but when Lou's dad has a stroke, there is nowhere else for her to go while he recovers. Lou struggles to find her bearings and figure...
14) Innocent
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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After the orphanage she lives in is destroyed by fire, Betty, an innocent and trusting teen, takes a job as a maid in Kingston, Ontario. Welcomed into the household of the wealthy Remington clan, Betty makes friends with the staff at the house and soon discovers that her mother had also been a maid there-and that her father is in a nearby jail, convicted of murdering her mother. When she meets her father, she is taken aback by his claims of innocence,...
15) Water Balloon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Marley's life is as precarious as an overfull water balloon-one false move and everything will burst. Her best friends are pulling away from her, and her parents, newly separated, have decided she should spend the summer with her dad in his new house, with a job she didn't ask for and certainly doesn't want. On the upside is a cute boy who loves dogs as much as Marley does... but young love has lots of opportunity for humiliation and misinterpreted...
16) Shattered Glass
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Toni has always had nightmares about fire, and she also has burn scars but no idea how she got them. So when fire destroys the orphanage she has grown up in, she is ready to make her way to Toronto, where she hopes to discover the truth about the mother she believes hurt and then abandoned her. Toronto proves to be both daunting and exciting for Toni, whose charm and innocence attract attention-not always positive-wherever she goes. Buoyed by the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"After Sharkey's best friend commits suicide (or was it an accident?) in front of him, he spends the summer processing his grief on an abandoned beach resort island where his dad is the caretaker"--
Three years ago JC (aka Sharkey) saw his best friend fall off a unfinished Manhattan skyscraper. Suicide, or accident? He's spent the past years withdrawing from his friends, obsessively watching documentaries, and texting his dead friend. This year...
18) Candyfloss
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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When her mother plans to move to Australia with her new husband and baby, Floss must decide whether her loyalties lie with her mother or her father, while at the same time, her best friend begins to make fun of her and reject her.
19) Nigeria Jones
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner!
"An unwavering proclamation of Black girlhood." —Candice Iloh, author of National Book Award finalist Every Body Looking
From Ibi Zoboi, bestselling, award-winning author of American Street and coauthor of Punching the Air, comes a bold new YA coming-of-age story that explores race, feminism, and complicated family dynamics. The ideal next read for
...20) Whippoorwill
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Two New Hampshire teenagers fall into an unlikely relationship as they come together to save a mistreated dog. Whippoorwill is a deeply poignant story about the virulent nature of abuse and the power of human empathy.
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