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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was named, is everything.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Micky Bellsong encounters Leilani Klonk, a disabled girl, and her stepfather Preston Maddoc, she finally finds some purpose in her troubled life, but when the family disappears, Micky embarks on an arduous mission to find them.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sheriff's deputy Alex Brady, who still grieves his father's death on September 11, concentrates on fighting crime in Los Angeles, until the worst fire season in California history sends him in pursuit of environmental terrorists.
6) Insurgent
Author
Series
Divergent volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love"--
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Atria Books trade paperback ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
317 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Layken struggles with holding her family together after her father dies, until she develops a relationship with her new neighbor, Will, who has a passion for poetry slams and gives her a new sense of hope.
8) The shining
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Jack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, his wife sees it as a chance to preserve their family, and their five-year-old son sees the evil waiting just for them.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, discovers that she is the middle child in her biological family after she gives up her own child for adoption, and she struggles to find belonging as she tries to bond with her stoic older brother and outspoken younger sister.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A story set on the American border with Mexico, about family and friendship, life and death, and one teen struggling to understand what his adoption does and doesn't mean about who he is"--
11) The cousins
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
After receiving an invitation to spend the summer with their estranged grandmother, the Story cousins arrive at her house only to discover that she is not there, and the longer they stay on the island, the more they realize their mysterious family history has some deadly secrets.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
13) A dog's promise
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
384 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The dog who thinks of himself as 'Bailey' knows one thing for sure: all dogs go to heaven after they have fulfilled their purpose on earth. But Bailey's work on earth is far from finished, there are still so many more humans that need a dog's talent for unconditional love. There is one family in particular that needs Bailey's help, a family that is on the verge of breaking apart. But if Bailey helps this family he won't remember his previous lives,...
14) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
15) On the come up
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Bri hopes to become a great rapper, and after her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, must decide whether to sell out or face eviction with her widowed mother.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"There's always been a hole in Gio's life. Not because he's into both guys and girls. Not because his father has some drinking issues. Not because his friends are always bringing him their drama. No, the hole in Gio's life takes the shape of his birth mom, who left Gio, his brother, and his father when Gio was nine years old. For eight years, he never heard a word from her . . . and now, just as he's started to get his life together, she's back" --...
17) Running
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When fifteen-year-old Cuban American Mariana Ruiz's father runs for president, Mari starts to see him with new eyes. A novel about waking up and standing up, and what happens when you stop seeing your dad as your hero-while the whole country is watching"--
18) The Outsiders
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society. When it was first published in 1967, The Outsiders defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world. Thirty years later, it speaks to teenagers as powerfully as ever.
19) Safe haven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations,...
20) Again again
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Rising high school senior Adelaide Buchwald grapples with a family catastrophe and romantic upheaval while confronting secrets she keeps, her ideas about love, and the weird grandiosity of the human mind.