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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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Marly had been waiting a long time for this special momwnt. She sat alone in the car and stared at the lonely countryside and the small dilapidated house. It had to be the right place. All outdoors. With miracles. Not crowded and people being cross and mean. Daddy not tired all the time. Mothernot worried. She whispered, "Please let there be miracles."
Author
Series
Peaches volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Three teenaged girls from very different backgrounds, thrown together to pick peaches in a Georgia orchard, spend a summer in pursuit of the right boy, the truest of friends, and the perfect peach.
6) Identical
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.
7) Pinned
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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Dealing with family problems, girls, and their own competitive natures, high school seniors Ivan Korske and Bobby Zane face each other in the final match of the New Jersey State Wrestling Championship.
8) Hot Hand
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Series
Comeback kids volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In the wake of his parents' separation, ten-year-old Billy seems to have continual conflicts with his father, who is also his basketball coach, but his quiet, younger brother Ben, a piano prodigy, is having even more trouble adjusting, and only Billy seems to notice.
11) The vacation
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When his parents go to Africa to work as missionaries, twelve-year-old Henry's eccentric aunts, Pigg and Mag, take him on a cross-country car trip, allowing him to gain insight into his family and himself.
13) Nothing special
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Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Continues the story of Wisconsin teenager and high school football player Felton Reinstein, how he relates to his friends Gus and Aleah and what he does when his little brother Andrew runs away on his way to orchestra camp.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Seventeen-year-old Quinn has heard all her life about how untrustworthy men are, so when she discovers that her charismatic but selfish father, with whom she has recently begun to have a tentative relationship, has stolen from the many women in his life, she decides she must avenge this wrong.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Fourteen-year-old Nick has a three-legged dog named Lucky 2, some pet fish, and two mothers, whose relationship complicates his entire life as they face prejudice, work problems, alcoholism, cancer, and finally separation.
18) Chicken boy
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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.
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
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A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
20) Red rage
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Mara, who has a violent temper, uses rage to offer her relief from the world, but when an unspeakable event occurs, she is forced to look inward and discover something about herself.