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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominees 2021 - 22
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominees: 2021-2022 Master List
VT Golden Dome Book Award 2021-2022
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominees 2021 - 22
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominees: 2021-2022 Master List
VT Golden Dome Book Award 2021-2022
Description
It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing...
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Told in their separate voices, sixteen year old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy tale existence, and fifteen year old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in whic
Told in their separate voices, sixteen year old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy tale existence, and fifteen year old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom....
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Lil Bennett goes to Crete to find answers about the circumstances of her mother's death, and there finds herself entangled in an adventure of mythical proportions that leads her and her friends through the very labyrinth in which the real Minotaur was imprisoned"--
6) Brilliant
Author
Series
Avery sisters trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Sixteen-year-old Quinn struggles to maintain her image as a brilliant, good girl when her mother's major error at work leads to financial and legal troubles that turn Quinn's and her younger sisters' world upside-down.
7) Remedy
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
A girl who has been struggling with inexplicable poor health her entire life becomes the focal point of her mother's increasingly suspicious online funding campaign for medical expenses.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Award-winning author David Almond reintroduces readers to the perceptive, sensitive Mina before the events of Skellig in this lyrical and fantastical work. My Name is Mina is not only a pleasure to read, it is an intimate and enlightening look at a character whose open mind and heart have much to teach us about life, love, and the mysteries that surround us.
Mina loves the night. While everyone else is in a deep slumber, she gazes...
Mina loves the night. While everyone else is in a deep slumber, she gazes...
Author
Series
Gallagher girls volume 3
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
When Cammie Morgan visits her Gallagher Academy roommate Macey in Boston during summer break, the two girls soon find themselves trapped in a kidnapper's dangerous plot, with only their espionage skills to save them.
11) Dragon's keep
Author
Series
Wilde Island chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the dragon's claw she was born with that reflects only one of her mother's dark secrets.
Author
Series
Twisted tales (Liz Braswell) volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Description
What if Belle's mother cursed the Beast? As Old as Time is the third book in the hit YA line that reimagines classic Disney stories in surprising new ways. When Belle touches the Beast's enchanted rose, memories flood through Belle's mind-memories of a mother she thought she would never see again. And, stranger still, she sees that her beautiful mother is none other than the enchantress who cursed the castle and all its inhabitants. Shocked and confused,...
13) Vitro
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Sophie Crue's mother, a scientist, has helped create Vitros. Vitros are teenagers that have knowledge and abilities that can only be imagined by humans. There is something wrong with them though and it is enormous. Sophie and her friend Jim goes to visit her mother on the island where she has done this and they end up fighting for their lives.
15) Love & gelato
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
640L
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"After her mother dies, Lina travels to Italy where she discovers her mothers's journal and sets off on an adventure to unearth her mother's secrets"--
16) The foretelling
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Growing up the daughter of an Amazon queen who shuns her, Rain rebels against the ways of her tribe through her sister-like relationship with Io and her feelings for a boy from a tribe of wanderers.
18) Sparrow
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Fourteen-year-old Sparrow Cooke of Brooklyn has always been the kind of child who prefers reading books to playing with friends (not that she has many of those) and since fifth grade the one person who seemed to understand her was the school librarian--so when Mrs. Wexler was killed in an accident Sparrow's world came apart, and when she was found on the edge of the school roof everyone assumed that it was a suicide attempt, which Sparrow denies,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
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Description
"For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn't always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama, unexpectedly becomes a permanent relocation--following her mother's announcement that she's getting married--Robin is devastated. Overnight, her life changes. She is dropped into a new...