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62) I never
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Pub. Date
2017
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After learning that her seemingly-happy parents are separating, and that a popular senior is interested in her, seventeen-year-old Janey King's priorities shift from track, school, friends, and family to something more.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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"Sixteen-year-old Sana Kiyohara has too many secrets. Some are small, like how it bothers her when her friends don't invite her to parties. Some are big, like that fact that her father may be having an affair. And then there's the one that she can barely even admit to herself, the one about how she might have a crush on her best friend. When Sana and her family move to California she begins to wonder if it's finally time to be honest. Especially after...
65) Flyaway
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Seattle fifteen-year-old Stevie Calhoun does not realize how bad her life is until her mother leaves and Stevie must move in with annoyingly perfect Aunt Mindy for a summer, filling her days with being tutored and volunteering at a bird rehabilitation center.
66) Dare you to
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Series
Pushing the limits volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 15
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"If anyone knew the truth about Beth Risk's home life, they'd send her mother to jail and seventeen-year-old Beth who knows where. So she protects her mom at all costs. Until the day her uncle swoops in and forces Beth to choose between her mom's freedom and her own happiness. That's how Beth finds herself living with an aunt who doesn't want her and going to a school that doesn't understand her. At all. Except for the one guy who shouldn't get her,...
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Series
Three rancheros volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
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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.
68) Ordinary people
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
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The Jarrets are a typical American family. Calvin is a determined, successful provider and Beth an organized, efficient wife. They had two sons, Conrad and Buck, but now they have one. In this memorable, moving novel, Judith Guest takes the reader into their lives to share their misunderstandings, pain...and ultimate healing.
69) Blue heron
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
While spending the month of August on the Massachusetts shore with her father, stepmother, and their new baby, almost thirteen-year-old Maggie finds beauty in and draws strength from a great blue heron, even as the family around her unravels.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2034, a comet is due to hit the Earth within the hour. Denise, who's sixteen years old and autistic, must try to find her missing sister and also help her neglectful, undependable mother safely aboard a spaceship"--
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Nola Sutton has always been friends with the Swift boys, Cannaan, Brian, and Kevin, but when their father leaves them without saying good-bye the boys start to change, and her long-time friends begin to pull away from her at a time when she needs them more than ever.
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Series
Virago modern classics volume 620
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Jane lives in Toronto with her mother and grandmother. Then one day her father sends for her -- Jane didn't even know she had a father -- to come and visit him on Prince Edward Island. And no-one, not even her mother, has ever talked to her about him.
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Series
Middle school novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When the family's drugstore is failing, seventh-grader Lucy uses her problem solving talents to come up with solution that might resuscitate the business, along with helping the environment. When a local homecoming queen shows up at Lucy Desberg's family's drugstore with a beauty disaster that Lucy helps to fix, word gets out, and suddenly Lucy has a line of makeover customers for every school dance and bat mitzvah in Connecticut.
Author
Series
Cupcake queen volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Penny's mother has moved to Hog's Hollow, has opened a bakery that sells only cupcakes, and she has brought Penny with her. Penny is woebegone: all her friends and her dad are in New York City; she has to help her mother in the bakery; and Hog's Hollow's resident mean girl is making her life a misery.
76) Cursed
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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"Depicts young teen Ricky Bloom's struggles with her recent chronic illness diagnosis, which comes amid family upheaval and challenges at school."--Provided by publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
Publisher Annotation: Robin Benway?s beautiful interweaving story of three very different teenagers connected by blood explores the meaning of family in all its forms?how to find it, how to keep it, and how to love it.