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2) Suckerpunch
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Shy, seventeen-year-old Marcus and his sixteen-year-old brother, Enrique, accompanied by two friends, drive from their home in southern California to Monterey to confront the abusive father who walked out a year earlier, and who now wants to return home.
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Twelve-year-old David and his family search for their kidnapped mother in the many different time period portals of their home, but when a stranger appears and tries to force them to sell the house, their desperation reaches new heights.
5) Warp speed
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Marley Sandelski has always felt invisible at school when he is not facing bullies, but a series of unexpected events gives him a taste of popularity and insights into some classmates, well-liked or greatly-feared.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
When high school senior Asha Jamison is called a "towel head" at a pool party, she and her best friend Carey start a club to raise awareness of mixed-race students that soon sweeps the country, but the hubbub puts her Ivy League dreams, friendship, and beliefs to the test.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"A story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal told from different points in time, and in separate voices, by artists Jude and her twin brother Noah"--
At thirteen, Jude and her twin brother, Noah, were incredibly close. At sixteen, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways. Then Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as an even more unpredictable new force in her life....
Author
Series
Stella Batts volume 4
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
""Everyone is invited to a birthday party at her parent's candy store, except Stella Batts. She needs to figure out to be a pleasant hostess when she's not on the guest list"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt grows up on her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, learning to train the horses her father sells and trying to reconcile her strict religious upbringing with her own ideas about life.
12) Gee Whiz
Author
Series
Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 5
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Soon after her yearling, Jack, begins working with professional trainers at a nearby ranch, Abby Lovitt takes responsibility for a very large, very smart, and very curious retired racehorse named Gee Whiz.
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Eight-year-old EllRay's father has promised a family trip to Disneyland if EllRay can stay out of trouble for a week, but not defending himself against Jared, the class bully, proves to be a real challenge.
Author
Series
Get ready for Gabí volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In Northern California, Maritza Gabriela Morales Mercado struggles to deal with the third grade bully, to control her temper, and to remember to speak Spanish at home and English at school.
15) A good horse
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack, when it comes to light that his dam might have been stolen.
16) Underwater
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Ever since the mass shooting at her California high school, junior Morgan Grant has become increasingly agoraphobic until even the idea of stepping outside her door can bring on a panic attack, a situation not made any easier by the fact that her parents are divorced--but when Evan moves in next door she finds herself attracted to him and begins to find herself longing for the life she has been missing.
17) Life after theft
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
"Jeff is the new guy in school and the only one who can see Kimberlee, a ghost with a lot of (stolen) baggage. To help her move on, Jeff must return everything she stole when she was alive. But being Kimberlee's accomplice turns into more than he bargained for when his crush and the cops get involved"--
18) Pie in the sky
Author
Series
Publisher
Yearling Book
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Abby Lovitt doesn't realize how unprepared she is when she takes her beloved horse, True Blue, to a clinic led by the most famous equestrian anyone knows. The biggest surprise, though, is that Sophia, the girl who never makes a mistake, suddenly makes so many that she stops riding. Who will ride her horse? Abby's dad seems to think it will be Abby. Pie in the Sky is the most expensive horse Abby has ever ridden. But he is proud and irritable, and...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Unhappy after his parents move to a weird subdivision and become workaholics, thirteen-year-old Travis returns to his old Salinas neighborhood and becomes actively involved in saving the John Steinbeck Library and, at the same time, begins seeing characters from Steinbeck's books who seem to have a message for him.
20) Holes in the sky
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Soon after her beloved grandmother's death, Trisha's family moves to a diverse California neighborhood where she meets Stewart and his grandmother, Miss Eula, who brings people together to help a grieving neighbor.
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