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1) Check & mate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After chess led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory Greenleaf's focus is a dead-end job that keeps the lights on for her mother and sisters. When she plays in a charity tournament and wipes the board with current world champion Nolan Sawyer, the victory opens the door to sorely needed cash prizes. Mallory struggles to keep her family separated from the game, but she soon realizes that the games aren't only on the board. The...
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.
3) Harbor me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--
Author
Series
Keysha novels volume 3
Publisher
Kimani Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
8) Kick
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, thirteen-year-old soccer star Kevin and police sergeant Brown, who knew his father, try to keep Kevin out of juvenile hall after he is arrested on very serious charges.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old, suburban high school student Kelleigh, who has her learner's permit, recounts how she began stealing cars one summer, for reasons that seem unclear even to her.
10) Leaving Lymon
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 2
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Raised by his grandparents, first in Mississippi then in Wisconsin, ten-year-old Lymon moves to Chicago in 1945 to live with the mother he never knew, while yearning for his father.
Author
Series
Adventures of Beanboy volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Wheaton, Kansas seventh-grader Tucker MacBean loves comic books, so when his favorite comic has a contest to create a sidekick, he is hopeful that he can win, thereby fixing his struggling family.
12) The do-over
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Emilie, stuck in a cosmic Groundhog/Valentine's Day nightmare where she discovers her family is splitting up and her boyfriend is cheating on her, decides to embark upon The Day of No Consequences, but when her repetitive day suddenly ends, she must face the consequences of her actions.
After a dumpster fire of a Valentine's Day, Emilie Hornby escapes to her grandmother's house for some comfort. She passes out on the couch, but when...
13) Bad best friend
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grader Niki's best friend, Ava, dumps her just as life at home is becoming more complicated by her brother Danny's behavior and her mother's refusal to admit Danny is on the autism spectrum.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sydney's charismatic older brother, Peyton, has always been the center of attention in the family but when he is sent to jail, Sydney struggles to find her place at home and the world until she meets the Chathams, including gentle, protective Mac, who makes her feel seen for the first time.
15) Fallout
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
16) Sunny
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sunny, the Defenders' best runner, only runs for his father, who blames Sunny for his mother's death, but with his coach's help Sunny finds a way to combine track and field with his true passion, dancing.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
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.
18) Windmill windup
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Kelly, softball star, has to face new challenges in her life, including assignment to a different softball team and her mother's new boyfriend.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
After surviving sixth grade, Rafe expects seventh grade to be a fun zone because he has been accepted to art school in the big city, but when he discovers it is more competitive than he expected, he sets out to turn his boring life into the inspiration for a work of art.
20) Expelled
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Expelled over The Photo that was posted to his Twitter account, Will Foster, seventeen, is determined to find out who took the picture and why he and three other students were targeted.
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