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1101) Lost in Rome
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Lucia "Lucy" Rossi thought she was going to be a camp counselor for the summer, but, thanks to a very fortunate twist, she ends up in Rome, Italy, helping out at her aunt's restaurant, Amore Pizzeria. Lucy can't wait to see some ruins, eat all the gelato she can, and maybe say a few buongiornos to some cute Italian boys. But Lucy arrives to Italian trouble. Her aunt is in danger of losing her business, thanks to a flashy new pizzeria down the road...
1102) Where the heart is
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"It's the first day of summer and Rachel's thirteenth birthday. She can't wait to head to the lake with her best friend, Micah. But as summer unfolds, every day seems to get more complicated. Her "fun" new job taking care of the neighbors' farm animals quickly becomes a challenge, whether she's being pecked by chickens or having to dodge a charging pig at feeding time. At home, her parents are more worried about money than usual, and their arguments...
1103) The Chaos
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Toronto sixteen-year-old Scotch may have to acknowledge her own limitations and come to terms with her mixed Jamaican, white, and black heritage if she is to stop the Chaos that has claimed her brother and made much of the world crazy.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
In Including Alice, fifteen-year-old Alice finds it hard to adjust to the changes in her life when her father gets married and her brother moves to his own apartment. In Alice on her way, Alice is adjusting to her new stepmother, her brother's new apartment, her new boyfriend, and getting a driver's license. In Alice in the know, during the summer before junior year, Alice, while working at the local department store, must deal with a friend being...
1106) Survivor
Author
Series
Bluford series volume 20
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Tarah Carson has hidden the secret for years. No one--not her mother, her friends at Bluford High, or even her boyfriend, Cooper Hodden--knows what her uncle did to her years ago. Tarah hoped to keep it that way. But an upcoming reunion is forcing Tarah's past into the present."--Back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Told from three viewpoints, thirteen-year-old scientific genius Lenny Cyrus shrinks himself and, helped by his best friend Harlan, enters the body of Zooey, the girl he has loved since third grade, hoping to physically change her mind about him on the very day her play opens.
1108) The great treehouse war
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Fifth-grader Winnie, with notes from her friends, writes of turning her treehouse into an embassy after her newly-divorced parents become unreasonable, where she is joined by nine others with complaints.
After her newly-divorced parents become unreasonable, fifth-grader Winnie, with notes from her friends, writes of turning her treehouse into an embassy, where she is joined by nine others with complaints.
1109) Great expectations
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Appears on list
Description
Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860...
Author
Series
Mal and Chad volume 3
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Boy-genius Mal and his dog, Chad, have crazy adventures in trying to get out of boring chores by inventing things that usually don't help as planned.
Author
Series
Blue eyes trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"Arianna Grace liked her boring, Midwestern, teenage life where she ignored the many unanswered questions of her childhood. Why were her parents dead? Why did she not have family? Where was she raised until she was five? When someone offers to explain it all, Arianna thinks she's just getting answers. Instead, she is thrown into a world of night humans who drink blood. On Arianna's sixteenth birthday, her world is thrown upside down when she changes...
1112) Mallory goes green
Author
Series
Mallory McDonald books volume 13
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When Mallory is appointed to the Fern Falls Elementary School Environmental Committee, which is deciding on class projects for the upcoming Green Fair, she rapidly succeeds in alienating her classmates, friends, and family by her overzealous efforts to save the planet.
1113) Después de diciembre
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Todo cambiará... después de diciembre. El tiempo es algo relativo. Para algunos pasa más rápido, para otros no tanto. Para Jenna Brown el último año se ha hecho eterno. Cuando superas una ruptura el tiempo se rige por otras leyes físicas y estar un año sin Jack Ross, ha sido uno de los retos más difíciles de su vida. Pero ha conseguido superarlo, centrarse en sí misma y convertirse en la nueva Jenn que tiene un nuevo objetivo vital: terminar...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Dos corazones solitarios, unidos por la magia de las noches en la playa. Ahora, con todo el verano por delante, todo puede pasar... Desde que comenzaron las peleas y sus padres se divorciaron, Auden no ha podido dormir. Ahora, tiene la oportunidad de pasar un verano idilico en la casa de playa de su padre, quien vive con su nueva familia. Un trabajo en una tienda de ropa introduce a Auden al mundo de las chicas de su edad: las amigas, las charlas...
1116) This might get awkward
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Gemma's favorite kind of beach is an empty one. Social interactions are too much for her to handle. She always says the wrong thing--if she manages to say anything at all. She can't even bring herself to speak to her longtime crush, Beau Booker, without losing sleep over her own awkwardness. During a solo outing to her favorite beach, Gemma realizes--to her horror--that the popular kids from school have shown up to throw a party....
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Twelve-year-old Zoë, famous for advising other people using her unwritten rules, has her hands full with chairing a school dance committee, training a new student to fit in, keeping her grandmother out of a nursing home, and trying to find a husband for her mother.
Author
Series
Tegan and Sara volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"Before Tegan and Sara took the music world by storm, the Quins were just two identical twins trying to find their place in a new home and new school. From first crushes to the perils of puberty, surviving junior high is something the sisters plan to face side by side, just like they've always faced things. But growing up also means growing apart, as Tegan and Sara make different friends and take separate paths to understanding their queerness. For...
Author
Series
Amelia rules! volume 7
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
While trying to figure out the meaning of life, Amelia learns that even when the world is scary and life is as mystifying as ever, some things, such as friends, do last.
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Having been stood up for the prom the previous year, high school junior Nicolette works on a top ten list of things to do with her unworn dress while also trying to help her divorced parents and take care of her relationships with her best friend and with potential boyfriends.