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Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015].
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
After her younger brother, Tyler, commits suicide, Lex struggles to work through her grief in the face of a family that has fallen apart, the sudden distance between her and her friends, and memories of Tyler that still feel all too real.
44) Claws
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Jed and Laura, two popular Minnesota high school students, find their seemingly perfect lives suddenly in chaos when they discover that each has a parent who is having an affair with the other.
45) When eagles fall
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Still coping with her brother's death and her parents' subsequent divorce, thirteen-year-old Alex finds herself stranded on a small, deserted island in Minnesota with an injured eaglet.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
With her father "out of the picture" and her mother working long hours, twelve-year-old Cassie unconsciously describes her anger and confusion in a fantasy novel she is writing for school.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Whit's zookeeper parents have rarely allowed him to go outside of the Alabama zoo they run, but he stops seeing it as such a cage when he meets "Bird Girl, " for whom the place is a refuge from problems at home.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Three sisters in San Antonio are shadowed by guilt and grief over the loss of their oldest sister, who still haunts their house"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Language
English
Description
"Astrid Jones copes with her small town's gossip and narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining that she's sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying high over her backyard. Maybe they'll know what to do with it. Maybe it'll make them happy. Maybe they'll need it. Her mother doesn't want it, her father's always stoned, her perfect sister's too busy trying to fit in, and the people in her small town would never allow her to love...
50) Mistwalker
Author
Series
Phantom stallion Wild Horse Island volume 7
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
51) Invisibility
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
"To break his curse of invisibility, a boy is helped by a girl, who is the only one who can see him"--
Stephen is used to invisibility. He was born that way. Invisible. Cursed. Elizabeth sometimes wishes for invisibility. When you?re invisible, no one can hurt you. So when her mother decides to move the family to New York City, Elizabeth is thrilled. It?s easy to blend in there. Then Stephen and Elizabeth meet. To Stephen's amazement, she can see...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her.
53) Poppy's return
Author
Series
Poppy volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Description
"Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. By now, she figures, it's not running away. It's leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn't...
55) Sunny side up
Author
Series
Sunny volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 490L
Language
English
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Description
Sunny Lewin is sent to Florida to spend the summer with her grandfather, and at first she is excited as she thought it would be fun because it is the home of Disney World, but she finds out it is no amusement park as it's full of old people... really old people. But the real question is, why was she sent there in the first place, and does it have something to do with her brother and his behavior?
57) Swing it, Sunny!
Author
Series
Sunny volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 480L
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1970s Sunny Lewin is back, star of her personal show, facing the prospect of Middle School, and dealing with the problems of her somewhat dysfunctional family--in particular her older brother, Dale, who has been sent off to a military academy because of his delinquent behavior. In graphic novel format.
Author
Series
Tillerman cycle volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Dicey struggles to make a go of a boatbuilding business while facing family concerns, romantic problems, and the uncertainties of a drifter who offers to help her in her work.
59) Fear of falling
Author
Series
Vet volunteers volume 9
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old David has conflicting feelings when his father, who taught him to ride the horses he loves so much, returns to spend Thanksgiving Day with the family after being gone for a year.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lucille is struggling to get through each day, paying bills and looking after her little sister, Wren, while her father is institutionalized after a breakdown and her mother is "on vacation," but nothing else seems to matter when she iswith Digby Jones, her best friend's twin brother.
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