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1) Booked
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Nick is a star up and down the soccer field, but off it, things are a little more hectic." Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams.
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When nine-year-old Eleanor's beloved babysitter Bibi moves away to care for her ailing father, Eleanor must spend the summer adjusting to a new babysitter while mourning the loss of her old one.
4) Moonrise
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
With little money or support, Joe Moon, seventeen, travels to Texas to help the older brother he barely knows through his last few weeks before being executed for murder.
5) Wolfpack
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company is a division of Hatchette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
©2023.
Description
"Nine girls bound together in beautiful, virtuous Havenwood, a refuge from an unsafe world. Then there are eight, one of them gone -- departed with no warning.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Laura Rodríguez Colón has a plan: no matter what the grown-ups say, she will live with her parents again. Can you blame her? It’s tough to make friends as the new kid at school. And while staying at her aunt’s house is okay, it just isn’t the same as being in her own space.
7) Mid-air
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
© 2024.
Description
"It’s the last few months of eighth grade, and Isaiah feels lost. He thought his summer was going to be him and his boys Drew and Darius, hanging out, doing wheelies, watching martial arts movies, and breaking tons of Guiness World Records before high school. But now, more and more, Drew seems to be fading from their friendship, and though he won’t admit it, Isaiah knows exactly why. Because Darius is…gone. A hit and run killed Darius in the...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
©2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
April and Zee have been best friends practically since birth, a perfect and inseparable band of two. But this year, Zee's going to a new school to focus more on his music, and April is left navigating sixth grade alone. Or maybe worse than alone when her teacher pairs her off with Asa Curtis, the classmate who often arrives late, shirt wrinkled and collar mustard-stained. This is not what this year was supposed to be like, and April is finding the...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
The youngest of three siblings, fourteen-year-old Anke feels both relieved and neglected that her father abuses her brother and sister but ignores her, but when she catches him with one of her friends, she finally becomes angry enough to take action.
10) American ace
Author
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Sixteen-year-old Connor tries to help his severely depressed father, who learned upon his mother's death that Nonno was not his biological father, by doing research that reveals Dad's father was probably a Tuskegee Airman.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Told in verse in two voices, with a chorus of fellow students, this is a story of two girls, opposites in many ways, who are drawn to each other; Kate appears to be a stereotypical cheerleader with a sleek ponytail and a perfectly polished persona, Tam is tall, athletic and frequently mistaken for a boy, but their deepening friendship inevitably changes and reveals them in ways they did not anticipate.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Carole and Jeffery Boston Weatherford’s ancestors are among the founders of Maryland. Their family history there extends more than three hundred years, but as with the genealogical searches of many African Americans with roots in slavery, their family tree can only be traced back five generations before going dark. And so from scraps of history, Carole and Jeffery have conjured the voices of their kin, creating an often painful but ultimately empowering...
13) Blood brothers
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"The Johnston brothers are kicked out of everything-school, baseball, scouts, even church. Ashland's anger has erupted into a fireball of hate. The only silver lining is that Calvin's best friend Izzy lives 65 miles away at the beach, and has no idea about his secret. But news has a way of spreading. Calvin and his brothers are in the fight of their lives. As a matter of fact, they're fighting for life itself."
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When Hà arrived in Alabama as a refugee from the Vietnam War, she was sure she'd never get used to this strange land. But in just two years she has made friends, earning A's at school, and has found a sense of belonging.
15) Knockout
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
Told in assonant free verse, Levi was once a premature baby who suffered from respiratory problems; he recovered, and now in seventh grade, he struggles to demonstrate to his divorced mother and overprotective brother that he is okay--so when his father suggests he take up boxing he falls in love with the sport, but he still must find a way to convince his family to set him free to follow his dream.
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