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21) Hole in my life
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
The author explains how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.
24) Olive's ocean
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her.
28) Elsewhere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live."
Author
Series
Heaven trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.
32) How I live now
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land. "Every war has turning points and every person too." Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she's never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her...
33) Hondo & Fabian
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Hondo the dog gets to go to the beach and play with his friend Fred, while Fabian the cat spends the day at home.
34) Mystic horse
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After caring for an old abandoned horse, a poor young Pawnee boy is rewarded by the horse's mystic powers.
Author
Series
Dolores series volume 6
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Dolores has agreed to stop "borrowing" things from her older sister Faye's dresser, but then she discovers a special Valentine's Day necklace there.
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Description
In 1962, Carols Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Cuba - exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by the revolution. The memories of Carlos's life in Havana, cut short when he was just eleven years old, are at the heart of this stunning, evocative, and unforgettable memoir.
38) Immigrant kids
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Text and contemporary photographs chronicle the life of immigrant children at home, school, work, and play during the late 1800's and early 1900's.
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Brooks Brown, a 1999 graduate of Columbine High School, describes his longtime friendship with Dylan Klebold, his difficulties with Eric Harris before the shootings, and his experiences in the aftermath, during which he was suspected as an accomplice by the police and his classmates.
40) Airborn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.