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1) The fort
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Five middle schoolers find a fully stocked bomb shelter constructed decades ago in the local woods by an eccentric tycoon and lost until a hurricane exposes the entrance. So, how to keep the hideout secret from interfering grown-ups--and, more particularly, from scary teen psychopath, Jaeger Devlin.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucas Ray is shocked when an adorable puppy jumps out of an abandoned building and into his arms. Though the apartment he shares with his mother, a disabled veteran, doesn?t allow dogs, Lucas can?t resist taking Bella home. Bella is inexplicably drawn to Lucas, even if she doesn?t understand the necessity of games like No Barks. As it becomes more difficult to hide her from the neighbors, Lucas begins to sneak Bella into the VA where he works. There,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Summer for Sasha and Ray means the sprawling old house on Long Island. Since they were children, they've shared almost everything--reading the same books, running down the same sandy footpaths to the beach, eating peaches from the same market, laughing around the same sun-soaked dining table. Even sleeping in the same bed, on the very same worn cotton sheets. But they've never met. Sasha's dad was once married to Ray's mom, and together they had three...
Author
Series
Bluford series volume 16
Publisher
Townsend Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Vicky Fallon can't take it. Her father lost his job, her parents are constantly fighting, and her little brother is out of control. Once an honor student, Vicky is quickly falling behind in her classes at Bluford High. Now her teachers, friends, and boyfriend, Martin Luna, want answers.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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...
6) Hands
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, New York
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Trevor has an adult problem to deal with: how to protect himself, his sisters, and his mother from his abusive stepfather (currently in prison) and he thinks the way to do that is to take up boxing--although he would really rather draw.
Twelve-year-old Trevor has an adult problem to deal with: how to protect himself, his sisters, and his mother from his abusive stepfather, who is currently in prison. He takes up boxing, figuring if...
Author
Publisher
Yellow Jacket
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Max records his efforts to control his anorexia in a therapist-prescribed journal that also chronicles his parents' difficult relationship and his feelings for a new girl at school, Evie.
8) Tumbos
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
Español
Description
De la galardonada autora de La primera regla del punk nos llega una asombrosa novela sobre una joven que reúne las piezas faltantes de su origen, la historia de una familia de luchadores legendarios a quienes nunca antes había conocido.
Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
Español
Description
¿Cómo expresarte cuando sientes que nadie te escucha? En esta conmovedora novela en verso ̶ que Lisa Fipps, autora galardonada con un Printz Honor Award, llama "potente" ̶ , una niña enfrenta su segundo año de escuela intermedia mientras lidia con problemas de salud mental. Deberá encontrar la manera de usar su voz para pedir la ayuda y la comprensión que merece.
Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for...
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