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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old TJ tries to cope with the emotional upheaval in her life when the father who kidnapped her ten years earlier and raised her under a different identity is injured, and she goes to visit her recently-discovered twin sister, mother, and future stepfather.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
Sydney's charismatic older brother Peyton has always been the center of attention in the family, but when he's sent to jail, Sydney struggles to find her place at home and the world until she meets the Chathams, including gentle, protective Mac, who makes her feel seen for the first time.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Overwhelmed by grief and guilt over her brother's death and its impact on her mother, and at odds with her best friend, thirteen-year-old Dellie reaches out to a neglected boy in her building in the projects and learns from a new neighbor to have faith in herself and others.
5) The fall
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In writing in his journal about middle school classmate Morgan Mallen's suicide from bullying, Sam explores whether he was a friend, or one of the bullies who ignored her at school and tormented her online.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Thirteen-year-old brilliant but socially-challenged Stewart and mean-girl Ashley must find common ground when, two years after Stewart's mother died, his father moves in with his new girlfriend--Ashley's mother, whose gay ex-husband lives in their guest house.
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 7
Publisher
Simon Pulse/Mercury Ink, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
The Electroclan embarks on a daring rescue mission when Michael Vey goes missing in this final volume of the series.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.
10) Criss cross
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
11) Rotten
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When troubled sixteen-year-old Jimmer "JD" Dobbs returns from a mysterious summer "upstate" he finds that his mother has adopted an abused Rottweiler that JD names Johnny Rotten, but soon his tenuous relationship with the dog is threatened.
12) Breda's island
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publisher
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In the vein of When You Trap a Tiger and Shouting at the Rain, this is the story of the journey one girl undertakes to find herself. After Breda Moriarity gets caught stealing one too many times, Breda's mom sends her to Ireland, a place she has never been, to live with the grandfather she has never met. While Breda doesn't want to be in this strange land, she finally gets to meet Granda, her mom's father. He's a grumpy farmer who is also a seanchai,...
13) So done
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"When best friends Metai and Jamila are reunited after a summer apart, their friendship threatens to combust from the pressure of secrets, middle school, and looming auditions for a potentially life-changing new talented-and-gifted program. Jamila Phillips and Tai Johnson have been inseparable since they were toddlers, having grown up across the street from each other in Pirates Cove, a low-income housing project. As summer comes to an end, Tai can't...
15) Trapped
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Seven high school students are stranded at their New England high school during a week-long blizzard that shuts down the power and heat, freezes the pipes, and leaves them wondering if they will survive.
16) Drama
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon Over Mississippi, she's a terrible singer. Instead she's the set designer for the stage crew, and this year she's determined to create a set worthy of Broadway on a middle-school budget. But how can she, when she doesn't know much about carpentry, ticket sales are down, and the crew members are having trouble working together? Not to mention the onstage...
Author
Publisher
Accord Books/Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In 1970s Kenya, ten-year-old Lumush and his three friends discover a criminal operation that puts both themselves and their families in danger.
18) Camp
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In 1963 at a Maine summer camp, fourteen-year-old Amy Becker is forced to face the camp bully, Rory, family secrets revealed by her cousin Robin, and worry about having to leave her mentally challenged brother with their cold, harsh mother.
19) Crazy
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
While growing up in the 1960s, Laura uses art to cope with her mother's mental illness.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Amos Abernathy lives for history. Literally. He's been a historical reenactor nearly all his life. But when a cute new volunteer arrives at his Living History Park, Amos finds himself wondering if there's something missing from history: someone like the two of them. Amos is sure there must have been LGBTQ+ people in nineteenth-century Illinois. His search turns up Albert D. J. Cashier, a Civil War soldier who might have identified as a trans man...
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