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2) Check & mate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Appears on list
Description
After chess led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory Greenleaf's focus is a dead-end job that keeps the lights on for her mother and sisters. When she plays in a charity tournament and wipes the board with current world champion Nolan Sawyer, the victory opens the door to sorely needed cash prizes. Mallory struggles to keep her family separated from the game, but she soon realizes that the games aren't only on the board. The...
3) Doll bones
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When his best friend disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, thirteen-year-old Theo uses his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chase down the truth and save April.
9) Riverland
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When things go bad at home, sisters Eleanor and Mike hide in a secret place under Eleanor's bed, telling monster stories. Often, it seems those stories and their mother's house magic are all that keep them safe from both busybodies and their dad's temper. But when their father breaks a family heirloom, a glass witch ball, a river suddenly appears beneath the bed, and Eleanor and Mike fall into a world where dreams are born, nightmares struggle to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When his volatile father is picked to become an astronaut for NASA's mission to Mars, seventeen-year-old Cal, an aspiring journalist, reluctantly moves from Brooklyn to Houston, Texas, and looks for a story to report, finding an ally (and crush) in Leon, the son of another astronaut.
Cal Lewis's volatile father has been picked to become an astronaut for NASA's mission to Mars. This means leaving Brooklyn-- and Cal's career plans as an aspiring journalist--...
14) Harbor me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--
15) Towers falling
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"While learning about September 11th, fifth grader Dèja (born after the attacks) realizes how much the events still color her world"--
16) Time bomb
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Six students are trapped in their school after a bomb goes off, and must fight to survive while discovering who among them is the bomber"--
Six students are trapped in their school after a bomb. They couldn't be more different, but now they have something in common: survival. When they hear that the bomber is trapped inside the school, the question is: is it one of them?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Cat and her brother Chicken have always had a very special bond--Cat is one of the few people who can keep Chicken happy. When he has a "meltdown" she's the one who scratches his back and reads his favorite story. She's the one who knows what Chicken needs. Since their mom has had to work double-hard to keep their family afloat after their father passed away, Cat has been the glue holding her family together. But even the strongest glue sometimes...
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Thirteen-year-old aspiring lawyer Theodore Boone is falsely accused in a robbery and must fight to clear his name.
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