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2) Faerie wars
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
2004, 2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Troubled by family problems, Henry finds his life taking a whole new dimension when he and his friend, old Mr. Fogarty, become involved with Prince Pyrgus Malvae who has been sent from the faerie world in order to escape the treacherous Faeries of the Night.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin/Mercury Radio Arts
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
With their parents struggling to make ends meet, Lily and Ryan grow tired of always eating macaroni and cheese for supper and having their Grandma stay with them, but when Grandma hears their complaints she tells a story about the magic that snow angels can bring.
5) Blue heron
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1993], c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
While spending the month of August on the Massachusetts shore with her father, stepmother, and their new baby, almost thirteen-year-old Maggie finds beauty in and draws strength from a great blue heron, even as the family around her unravels.
6) 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...
7) 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.
10) Life is funny
Author
Publisher
DK Ink
Pub. Date
2000
Description
The lives of a number of young people of different races, economic backgrounds, and family situations living in Brooklyn, New York, become intertwined over a seven year period.
11) Coming apart
Author
Series
Main Street volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When Nikki's father left her family, she thought all of the screaming and fighting at home would be over, but when he returns, she calls on the support of her mother and friends to pull her through the difficult time.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Seventeen-year-old Quinn has heard all her life about how untrustworthy men are, so when she discovers that her charismatic but selfish father, with whom she has recently begun to have a tentative relationship, has stolen from the many women in his life, she decides she must avenge this wrong.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In a small fishing village in British Columbia, twelve-year-old Primrose tries to be a matchmaker for her Uncle Jack, befriends Ked, a new foster child, tries to decide if she is willing to go to jail for her convictions, and together with Ked, publishes a cook book to raise money for the Fisherman's Aid. Includes recipes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Twelve-year-old Mysti Murphy of Texas wishes she were a character in a book. If her life were fiction, she'd know how to solve her problems at school; take care of her family when her dad has to spend time in the hospital; and deal with her family's secret: that her mother is agoraphobic and never leaves the house"--
17) Junglerama
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1989
Description
Three small town boys with serious family problems find escape one summer by turning an old trailer into a traveling exhibition of animals.
18) Awake at dawn
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Having settled in at Shadow Falls Camp, a training ground for vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural beings, sixteen-year-old Kylie Galen is eager to discover what her abilities might be, but an interfering ghost and a rogue vampire on a murdering rampage get in the way of her search.
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