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Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
170 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stuck babysitting during the summer while her friends take glamorous vacations, fourteen-year-old Irene learns some lessons about life after meeting a beautiful, yet troubled, girl.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Childrens Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-olds Duncan Dorfman, April Blunt, and Nate Saviano meet at the Youth Scrabble Tournament where, although each has a different reason for attending and for needing to win, they realize that something more important is at stake than the grand prize.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1893 twelve-year-old Audra lives on a farm in Lithuania, and tries to avoid the Cossack soldiers who enforce the Russian decrees that ban Lithuanian books, religion, culture, and even the language; but when the soldiers invade the farm Audra is the only one who escapes and, unsure of what has happened to her parents, she embarks on a dangerous journey, carrying the smuggled Lithuanian books that fuel the growing resistance movement, unsure of who...
4) Loveless
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Georgia has parents who are still in love, two sets of grandparents that are still together, and a brother who married his girlfriend, but at eighteen she has never even kissed someone (not even her lesbian best friend, Felipa) or particularly even wanted to; at the prom afterparty she is surrounded by couples making out, and she really does not know what is wrong--but in college she comes to understand herself as asexual/aromantic, and to capture...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
197 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
For Ruby Pepperdine, the center of everything is on the rooftop of Pepperdine Motors, stargazing from the circle of her grandmother Gigi's hug. That's how everything is supposed to be--until it goes spinning out of control. Now Ruby's best friend, Lucy, is mad at her. Her new friendship with Nero is pretty bumpy too. Worst of all, Ruby regrets what happened with Gigi. How Ruby didn't listen. And now it's too late to make things right. But Ruby has...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Deet's father is jailed for using drugs, Deet learns that prison is not what he expected, nor are other people necessarily the way he thought they were.
8) Twerp
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Queens, New York, in 1969, twelve-year-old Julian Twerski writes a journal for his English teacher in which he explores his friendships and how they are effected by girls, a new student who may be as fast as Julian, and especially an incident of bullying.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"'I'm the greatest family member you'll ever meet.' Kevin Spencer has a history of big ideas going completely awry. This time around, it's personal--suddenly he's kind of in charge of a double wedding in his backyard, and a whole tribe of wacky relatives is crowding him out of his own house"--
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (7 hr., 54 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adam Canfield and his star reporters are chasing some red-hot leads. There's only one glitch: the school board has shut down The Slash for exposing the town's most powerful family, and now the staff has to find a way to publish it themselves.
12) What we harvest
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
The farms of Hollow's End were blessed with miracle crops, especially the shimmering, iridescent wheat of Wren's family farm, but then the black mercury blight came, and the blight destroys everything: crops turned to silver-black sludge, animals sickened and blinded, even people; Wren believes she is responsible, and desperate to save Hollow's End she turns to her ex-boyfriend--but they find that there is a lot they do not know about their town and...
14) Shadowscent
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
In the Aramtesh Empire scent is all important, and seventeen-year-old Rakel has a way with perfumes which she hopes to use to delay her father's inevitable death; Ash is a member of the imperial bodyguard, assigned to the crown prince Nisai's bodyguard; now they are all brought together on a caravan to an outer province, seeking a rare flower that can cure the poisoned emperor--but when Nisai himself is poisoned Rakel and Ash smell like the chief...
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Kevin impetuously announces that he will run for student body president, mainly to impress his girlfriend Tina, but soon gets excited about making a positive difference in his school and community.
Author
Series
Apartment house on Poppy Hill volume 1
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
125 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Ella considers herself the official greeter, tour guide, and is generally in charge of 1106 Wildflower Place, but the elusive Robinsons who live on the top floor are a mystery--one which Ella is determined to solve, and bring the elderly couple into the community of the apartment building on Poppy Hill.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"New historical fiction from a Newbery Honor-winning author about how middle schooler Ariel Goldberg's life changes when her big sister elopes following the 1967 Loving v. Virginia decision, and she's forced to grapple with both her family's prejudice and the antisemitism she experiences, as she defines her own beliefs. Twelve-year-old Ariel Goldberg's life feels like the moment after the final guest leaves the party. Her family's Jewish bakery runs...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 Wonderbook (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
EspaƱol
Description
When a little girl's far-away grandmother comes to stay, love and patience transcend language in a tender story written by acclaimed author Meg Medina.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Seattle fifteen-year-old explains some of the reasons for her recent panic attacks, including breaking up with her boyfriend, losing all her girlfriends, tensions between her performance-artist mother and her father, and more.