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Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When Monroe Blackwell, who is spending the summer at her grandmother's Louisiana bed-and-breakfast, meets Nathan Everets, who has a court-appointed job there, they share, and begin to recover from, their respective feelings of loss and guilt.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
On her sixteenth birthday, Sky and River, the boy with whom she has shared Island since she was a toddler, are "rescued" and taken to California, where Sky is separated from River, forced to live with a grandmother she has just met, and learn new rules for survival.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
YA-YAS IN BLOOM reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s and roars with all the raw power of Vivi Abbott Walker's 1962 T-Bird through sixty years of marriage, child-raising, and hair-raising family secrets.
4) Headlock
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
High school senior Kyle is determined to become a professional wrestler but his dream is threatened by a loved one's illness and the dramatic reappearance of a long-absent relative.
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2004, 2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 15
Description
When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Description
A young girl tries to make sense of an unruly world spinning around her. Growing up with a single mother who is chronically out of work and dating a married man, 10-year old Evelyn Bucknow learns early how to fend for herself.
8) Bliss
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Having grown up in a California commune, Bliss sees her aloof grandmother's Atlanta world as a foreign country, but she is determined to be nice as a freshman at an elite high school, which makes her the perfect target for Sandy, a girl obsessed with the occult.
Author
Publisher
Poppy
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
After the death of her free-spirited mother, sixteen-year-old Alexandra Lee is forced to move from Northern California to Savannah, Georgia, to live with her wealthy grandmother, who expects Alex to join a long-standing debutante society, which, Alex learns, has made a pact with a legendary Hoodoo family.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Alternates between two stories--contemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019, 2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"Against all odds, Sawyer befriends a group of debutantes and quickly learns that her family is not the only mainstay of high society with skeletons in their closet. As she navigates the twisted relationships between her new friends and their powerful parents, Sawyer discovers there are secrets people will kill to keep buried."
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