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Series
Wayward children volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
"Children have always disappeared from Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere ... else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. Nancy tumbled once, but now she's back. The things she's experienced ... they change a person. The children under Miss West's care...
2) One
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Despite problems at home, sixteen-year-old conjoined twins Tippi and Grace are loving going to school for the first time and making real friends when they learn that a cardiac problem will force them to have separation surgery, which they have never before considered.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
"The story of a teenage girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Margaret "Cuckoo" Clark keeps a journal detailing the trials and tribulations of high school life as she and her close-knit group of outcast friends try to break down the barriers between their school's "warring nations."
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives for basketball and plays at school and at the Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles but he is unaware of the many dangers--including his own past--that threaten his dream of playing professionally.
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, high school seniors Chloe Holden and Cash Colton try to determine if she is his foster mother's daughter, Emily, who was kidnapped at age three.
When she became Chloe Holden at three years old, her adoption didn't scar her. Now, fourteen years later, her parents' marriage has fallen apart and her mom has moved them to Joyful, Texas. Everything Chloe loved about her life is gone.-- and she's haunted by feelings of déjà vu. Cash...
Author
Series
David Pelzer trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games—games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave; and no longer...
Author
Series
David Pelzer trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Health Communications
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
This is Dave Pelzer's long-awaited sequel to A CHILD CALLED "IT." In this book, he answers questions & reveals new adventures through the compelling story of his life as an adolescent. You will not be able to put down this harrowing but ultimately uplifting true story of a boy's journey through the foster-care system, in search of a family to love. A retired Air Force air crew member, Dave played a major role in Operations Just Cause, Desert Shield...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Rynn was born with a hole in her heart--literally. Although it was fixed long ago, she still feels an emptiness there when she wonders about her birth family. As her relationship with her adoptive mother fractures, Rynn finally decides she needs to know more about the rest of her family. Her search starts with a name, the only thing she has from her birth mother, and she quickly learns that she has a younger sister living in foster care in a nearby...
11) After the fire
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Moonbeam, seventeen, survives a devastating confrontation between government forces and the cult she grew up in, but will need a lot of help to heal mentally, emotionally, and physically." --
Before, she lived inside the fence. She was never allowed to leave the property, never allowed to talk to Outsiders, never allowed to speak her mind. Because Father John controlled everything-- and Father John liked rules. Disobeying Father John came with terrible...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Zion Clark has always had big dreams for himself despite the many hardships he faced growing up as a Black disabled child in the foster care system of Ohio. His childhood years were marked by instability as he moved from home to home, experiencing abuse and neglect. And yet his determination and grit pushed him to become an elite wrestler and wheelchair racer. His constant reinvention led him to activism, speaking out about the failings of the foster...
13) Three more words
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Rhodes-Courter expands on life beyond the foster care system, the joys and heartbreak with a family she's created, and her efforts to make peace with her past"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Willow and Mason, two teens who are unceremoniously dragged to Salem, Massachusetts for the summer, meet and help each other figure out their places in the world.
Willow has never felt like she belonged anywhere and is convinced that the only way to find a true home is to travel the world. But her plans to act on her dream are put on hold when her aloof and often absent mother drags Willow to Salem, Massachusetts, to wrap up the affairs of an aunt...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
As an adult, Dave Pelzer still struggles with the effects of his abusive childhood. This is the inspiring conclusion to his previous New York Times best-sellers: A Child Called It and The Lost Boy. Recounting his fears and insecurities, Dave traces his path to personal victory. Today, he is a noted speaker on the prevention of child abuse.
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