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1) Check & mate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Slow Way Home is a warm, witty, fresh, and innovative novel." - --Homer Hickam, author of October Sky
"Slow Way Home is a gem -- both gritty and heartwarming at once. A wonderful, emotional read." - --Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls
"Slow Way Home is a novel for the heart. It is pitch perfect and the character Brandon is going to linger in a lot of minds. The opening chapter is one of the most poignant and poweful I have ever read. This is...
4) Tricks
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love.
5) Surrender
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
As he is dying, a twenty-year-old man known as Gabriel recounts his troubled childhood and his strange relationship with a dangerous counterpart named Finnigan.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In Johannesburg, South Africa, in the late 1960s, twelve-year-old Emily, who longs for affection from her quarreling parents, finds comfort in the stories of a Zulu servant and in her friendship with a young houseguest who has an equally troubled family.
7) Boot camp
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After ignoring several warnings to stop dating his teacher, Garrett is sent to Lake Harmony, a boot camp that uses unorthodox and brutal methods to train students to obey their parents.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When fifth-grade twins, Amy and Todd, tackle a school project, they also have to cope with issues of friendship at school and problems at home, including their father's unemployment.
Author
Series
Winning season volume 10
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
As his own self-confidence grows, seventh-grader Dunk learns to be supportive both on and off the basketball court when his friend Jared goes through a difficult time, even though Jared's failure would provide Dunk more opportunities to prove himself.
10) The bronze pen
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
With her father's failing health and the family's shaky finances, twelve-year-old Audrey's dreams of becoming a writer seem very impractical until she is given a peculiar bronze pen that appears to have unusual powers.
11) Granny
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2009, 1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In London, England, twelve-year-old Joe discovers that his grandmother is not just physically repulsive and horribly mean, she is also involved in an evil plot against him, but the adults around them fail to see behind her mask.
12) Crank
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, she meets a boy who introduces her to crank. At first she finds it freeing, but soon Kristina's personality disappears inside the drug. What began as a wild, ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul, and her life.
13) Break
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
To relieve the pressures of caring for a brother with life-threatening food allergies, another who is a fussy baby, and parents who are at odds with one other, seventeen-year-old Jonah sets out to break every bone in his body in hopes of becoming stronger.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While coping with his parents' separation, eleven-year-old Skeet spends most of Spring Break in his skiff on a Florida river, where he finds a manatee shot to death and begins looking for the killer. Skeet begins to unravel the mysteries surrounding the manatee's apparent murder and his parents' dissolving marriage. Skeet discovers that life is a lot like tarpon fishing, in which you can't look just at the surface of the water - you have to look through...
15) Just listen
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life.
16) The wild girls
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Joan moves to California in 1972, she becomes friends with Sarah, who is timid at school but an imaginative leader when they play in the woods, and after winning a writing contest together they are recruited for an exclusive summer writing class that gives them new insights into themselves and others.
17) Glass
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a powerful sequel to Crank, Kristina is determined to manage her addiction to crack in order to keep her newborn child, but when she is unable to manage her use of the drug and the pull becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.
18) After the game
Author
Series
Field party novels volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After being away for two years, Riley Young returns to Lawton, Alabama, with her fifteen-month-old daughter to help take care of her grandmother who has Alzheimers, even though it means she has to face the lies that forced her to leave town in the first place and a blossoming friendship with the high school football star Brady Higgens, who is dealing with his own family problems.
Two years after being raped, Riley Young returns to Lawton, Alabama,...
19) Chicken boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since the death of his mother, Tobin's family life and school life have been in disarray, but after he starts raising chickens with his seventh-grade classmate, Henry, everything starts to fall into place.
20) Poppy's return
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
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.
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