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1) Doll bones
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When Angel's self-absorbed mother leaves her and her younger brother with their poor great-grandmother, the eleven-year-old girl worries not only about her mother and brother, her imprisoned father, the frail old woman, but also about a mysterious man who begins sharing with her the wonder of the stars.
5) Faerie wars
Author
Series
Faerie Wars chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Troubled by family problems, Henry finds his life taking a whole new dimension when he and his friend, old Mr. Fogarty, become involved with Prince Pyrgus Malvae who has been sent from the faerie world in order to escape the treacherous Faeries of the Night.
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 2
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When his best friend disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, thirteen-year-old Theo uses his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chase down the truth and save April.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarah writes letters to her hero, To Kill a Mockingbird's Atticus Finch, for help understanding her mentally ill mother, her first real crush, and life in her small Texas town, all in the course of one momentous summer.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
While thirteen-year-old Teddy fights for his life after a football injury at training camp, his friends and family gather to support him and discuss events leading to his coma. Told through dialogue, text messages, newspaper articles, transcripts, an online forum, and Teddy's inner thoughts.
12) Nellie's promise
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Nellie O'Malley finally has a home again. She and her little sisters, Bridget and Jenny, are happily settling in with Samantha's family in New York City ..."
15) Blue heron
Author
Description
While spending the month of August on the Massachusetts shore with her father, stepmother, and their new baby, almost thirteen-year-old Maggie finds beauty in and draws strength from a great blue heron, even as the family around her unravels.
16) Between
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 15
Description
By weaving through her memories and watching the family and friends she left behind, eighteen-year-old Liz Valchar solves the mystery of how her life ended in the Long Island Sound.
Author
Series
Ramona Quimby volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
During the summer after her sophomore year, Deanna Lambert tries to come to terms with the reputation with which she was slapped in the eighth grade when she was caught by her father in the backseat of a car with a high school senior, and struggles with her still-strained relationship with her father and her changing feelings for her best friend, Jason.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Appears on list
Description
Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible in her family, where grumpy eighteen-year-old Sarah is working at the family restaurant, fourteen-year-old Holden is struggling with school bullies and his emerging homosexuality, and adorable, three-year-old Charlie is always the center of attention, and when tragedy strikes, the fragile bond holding the family together is stretched almost to the breaking point.
20) Dear Justyce
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Incarcerated teen Quan Banks writes letters to Justyce McCallister, with whom he bonded years before over family issues, about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system.