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21) Cheated
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Description
Fifteen-year-old Mick recalls a series of betrayals and other life-changing events in his broken home, during the break-up with his girlfriend, and at school, that led to his arrest for murder.
22) Bad best friend
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Eighth-grader Niki's best friend, Ava, dumps her just as life at home is becoming more complicated by her brother Danny's behavior and her mother's refusal to admit Danny is on the autism spectrum.
24) Forbidden
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Sixteen-year-old Maya and seventeen-year-old Lochan tell, in their separate voices, of their confusion and longing as they fall in love with one another after years of functioning as parents to three younger siblings due to their alcoholic mother's neglect.
26) Dead to you
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Having been abducted at age seven, abandoned, a foster child, and homeless, Ethan, now sixteen, is happy to be home until his brother's suspicion and his own inability to remember something unspeakable from his early childhood begin to tear the family apart.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Between school and Al-Anon meetings, Jenna helps Mrs. Gladstone cope with escalating problems that result from the merger of Gladstone Shoes with Shoe Warehouse Corporation, while managing a new employee with a shoplifting record.
Author
Series
Winning season volume 10
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
As his own self-confidence grows, seventh-grader Dunk learns to be supportive both on and off the basketball court when his friend Jared goes through a difficult time, even though Jared's failure would provide Dunk more opportunities to prove himself.
29) Stepping out
Author
Series
Serenity volume 2
Publisher
[Barbour Pub. in association with Realbuzz Studios]
Pub. Date
[c2005]
Description
"Serenity is warming up to the Christian kids who made her their "project" by showing her an unconditional love she's never experienced before. But when she tries ducking responsibility for wrecking Kimberly's car, that unconditional love turns tough. Can Serenity understand it's for her own good?"--P. [4] of cover.
30) Black box
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When her sixteen-year-old sister is hospitalized for depression and her parents want to keep it a secret, fourteen-year-old Elena tries to cope with her own anxiety and feelings of guilt that she is determined to conceal from outsiders.
31) Antsy does time
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Fourteen-year-old Anthony "Antsy" Bonano learns about life, death, and a lot more when he tries to help a friend with a terminal illness feel hopeful about the future.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In the summer of 1956 while her mother is in Florida searching for a job, fourteen-year-old April Garnet Rose, who has never met her father, stays with her terminally ill aunt in Virginia and accompanies her as she visits different churches, looking for God.
33) Reality Boy
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"An emotionally damaged seventeen-year-old boy in Pennsylvania, who was once an infamous reality television show star, meets a girl from another dysfunctional family, and she helps him out of his angry shell"--
34) Hot hand
Author
Publisher
Walden Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In the wake of his parents' separation, ten-year-old Billy seems to have continual conflicts with his father, who is also his basketball coach, but his quiet, younger brother Ben, a piano prodigy, is having even more trouble adjusting, and only Billy seems to notice.
35) The archived
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"When an otherworldly library called the Archive is compromised from within, sixteen-year-old Mackenzie Bishop must prevent violent, ghost-like Histories from escaping into our world"--
Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures that only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive. Mackenzie Bishop is a ruthless Keeper,...
36) The undrowned
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Samantha and Rachel used to be friends. But then Rachel betrayed Samantha . . . and Samantha decided to make her life a living nightmare. Then one day, Sam and Rachel found themselves in a fight by a lake. Samantha pushed Rachel . . . and watched as Rachel fell back. And back. Into the water. And gone. No way to save her. No way she could be alive. The next day, Rachel shows up to school as if nothing happened. And now she's the one who wants to...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Having been stood up for the prom the previous year, high school junior Nicolette works on a top ten list of things to do with her unworn dress while also trying to help her divorced parents and take care of her relationships with her best friend and with potential boyfriends.
38) Okay for now
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends, an abusive father, and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him until he finds an ally in Lil Spicer--a fiery young lady. Together, they find a safe haven in the local library, inspiration in learning about the plates of John James Audubon's birds, and a hilarious adventure on a Broadway stage.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Georgia can almost feel her heart cracking a little more every day. With Daddy sinking deeper into alcoholism and Mama struggling to keep the family afloat, Georgia is sent to stay with her mysterious great aunt in her old country house. Soon, lonely Georgia meets Angela, a girl with secrets of her own, and they discover a magical lake. At first, the lake offers a thrilling escape, but as things grow worse at home, a troubled boy appears at the...
40) Sunny
Author
Series
Track volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Sunny, the Defenders' best runner, only runs for his father, who blames Sunny for his mother's death, but with his coach's help Sunny finds a way to combine track and field with his true passion, dancing.
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