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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Iris opens her eyes to hard truths and the power of her voice when her father dies of AIDS in 1987"--
1987. Iris tries to act normal at school, going through the motions and joking around with her friends, but it feels like she'll never laugh again. How can she, when her dad is dying of a virus that is off-limits to talk about? When she knows that soon all she will have left of her kind, loving dad are memories, photos, and a binder full of the...
2) Storm-wake
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Moss lives alone with her magician father and a dog on a magical island, until a tempest sweeps a wild, not-quite-human boy, Callan, onto its beaches, and the two grow close, despite her father's worries--and then one day, a young man from the outside world is shipwrecked on her island, and after that nothing will be the same again.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
The story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out.
4) Dragonwings
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
c1975
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"--
6) The compound
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all.
8) Ink & ashes
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Description
"When Japanese American Claire Takata finds out that her deceased father was once a member of the yakuza, a Japanese crime syndicate, danger enters her life that could end up killing someone"--
Author
Series
Tapestry volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Description
After glimpsing a hint of his destiny in a mysterious tapestry, twelve-year-old Max McDaniels becomes a student at Rowan Academy, where he trains in "mystics and combat" in preparation for war with an ancient enemy that has been kidnapping children like him.
10) Perfect
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Following the death of her father, a thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own. Isabelle Lee has a problem, and it's not just Ape Face, her sister, or group therapy for an eating disorder, or even that her father died and her mother is depressed and in denial. It's that Ashley, the most popular girl in school, is inviting Isabelle to join her at lunch and at sleepovers at her...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"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 Sharkey...
12) Burn
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Tate learns quickly that the H2 are the least of his problems when a new alien race begins to threaten the planet"--
14) Demonglass
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
After learning that she is capable of dangerous magic, Sophie Mercer goes to England with her father, friend Jenna, and Cal hoping to have her powers removed, but soon she learns that she is being hunted by the Eye--and haunted by Elodie.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In this retelling of the Perrault fairy tale, Cendrillon's father, grief stricken over the death of his wife, leaves his baby daughter to be brought up by servants together with an unidentified infant boy until the day, sixteen-years-later, when a new stepmother with two daughters arrives and changes their lives forever.
Author
Series
Chronicles of Vladimir Tod volume 5
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
The Council of Elders, having been informed that Tomas still lives, puts off Vlad's execution, providing Vlad the opportunity to try to set some things right.
17) Shatter city
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Assuming her twin's identity, Frey works to destroy her father. When a rebel uprising strands her in Pas, and the city comes under attack, Frey must step out of the shadows to find her missing sister and take action against her tyrant father.
Author
Series
Virals novel volume 2
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Tory Brennan and her Virals friends work to prevent the financially strapped Loggerhead Island Research Institute's imminent shutdown, an effort that leads them to investigate an old Charleston buried treasure legend.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Jeremy is not excited about the prospect of spending the summer with his dad and his uncle in a seaside cabin in Oregon. It's the first summer after his parents' divorce, and he hasn't exactly been seeking alone time with his dad. He doesn't have a choice, though, so he goes . . . and on his first day takes a walk on the beach and finds himself intrigued by a boy his age running by. Eventually, he and Runner Boy (Evan) meet--and what starts out as...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"One hot summer morning, only weeks after his father's death, Davie steps out his front door into the familiar streets of the Tyneside town that has always been his home. But this seemingly ordinary day takes on an air of mystery and tragedy as the residents learn that a boy has been killed. Despite the threat of a murderer on the loose, Davie turns away from the gossip and sets off toward the sunlit hill above town, where the real and imaginary worlds...
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