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24) Keep holding on
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Bullied at school and neglected by her poor, self-absorbed, single mother at home, high school junior Noelle finally reaches the breaking point after a classmate commits suicide.
26) Zink
Author
Publisher
Dell Yearling
Pub. Date
2001, c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
With the help of a trio of zebras from the Serengeti, sixth-grader Becky faces her battle with leukemia, her family's fears for her, her competition with a hypocritical classmate, and the possibility that she might die.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
©2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Alex is a marvelous little boy who is just like other people in some ways, such as getting angry sometimes, but also unique because of his special laugh, his grizzly hugs, and his own interesting thoughts. Includes activities.
31) Restart
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Appears on list
Description
Chase does not remember falling off the roof, in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids--trouble is, he really is not sure he likes the Chase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life?
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
The elegant and compelling novel about a Pakistani man's abandonment of his high-flying life in New York an extraordinary portrait of a divided and yet ultimately indivisible world in America post-9/11.
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. He begins to tell the story of a man named Changez, who is living an immigrant's dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped...
36) Nailed
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2007, 2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
An outcast in a school full of jocks, sixteen-year-old Bret struggles to keep his individuality through his interest in drama and music, while trying to reconnect with his father.
37) Sound bender
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
After their parents are declared dead, Leo and his brother Hollis are taken in by a wealthy but distant step-uncle, and when, on his thirteenth birthday, Leo acquires the ability to hear sounds from the past when touching certain objects, he tries to use the skill to rescue a dolphin, whatever the cost.
38) What I lost
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When sixteen-year-old Elizabeth is sent to the Wallingfield Psychiatric Facility's Residential Treatment Center, she encounters girls whose problems seem much greater than her own anorexia.
40) Things change
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2006, c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Sixteen-year-old Johanna, one of the best students in her class, develops a passionate attachment for troubled seventeen-year-old Paul and finds her plans for the future changing in unexpected ways.
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