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Series
Lorien Legacies volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Description
In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.
Friendships and a beautiful girl are distracting to a teenager who is hiding on Earth while he waits to develop the powers he will need to rejoin the other six...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
A black family of five moves into an enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events as well as the discovery of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.
4) One moment
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
Rising high school senior Maggie remembers little about the accidental death of her boyfriend, Joey, but as she slowly begins to recall that day at the gorge with their long-time friends, she realizes he was keeping some terrible secrets.
6) Twisted
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
Having experienced compulsive behavior all her life, Lo's symptoms are getting her into trouble when she witnesses a murder while wandering dangerous quarters of Cleveland, Ohio, collecting things that do not belong to her, obsessing about her brother's death.
Author
Series
Mysteries of Middlefield series volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Curious thirteen-year-old Bekah Yoder wonders about the strange behavior of the man who moves into the house next door, but even she does not suspect the danger that he brings to their neighborhood.
10) Lost and found
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
The Grayson twins are moving to a new town. Again.Although it's a drag to be constantly mistaken for each other, in truth, during those first days at a new school, there's nothing better than having a twin brother there with you. But on day one of sixth grade, Ray stays home sick, and Jay is on his own. No big deal. It's a pretty nice school, good kids, too. But Jay quickly discovers a major mistake: No one seems to know a thing about his brother....
11) Blended
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.
12) Soar
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Moving to Hillcrest, Ohio, when his adoptive father accepts a temporary job, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has sixty days to find a baseball team to coach.
13) We are family
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Kids have big dreams. And when those dreams are on the line, how far are they willing to go to achieve them? When Jayden and his teammates find out there's not going to be a Hoop Group this year--and maybe ever again--they have to learn to lean on each other if they want to save their basketball season. Jayden Carr has been training all summer to be ready for Hoop Group--the free afterschool basketball program where his hero, NBA superstar Kendrick...
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
An overweight, timid fifteen-year-old boy and his popular fourteen-year-old sister begin to overcome their guilt over their father's death and reconnect with each other and their emotionally-distant mother when they accompany her on a two-week speaking tour.
15) Kent State
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Told from different points of view--protesters, students, National Guardsmen, and "townies"--recounts the story of what happened at Kent State in May 1970, when four college students were killed by National Guardsmen, and a student protest was turned into a bloody battlefield.
16) Hide and secret
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When three Amish teenagers search for clues to a family mystery, the investigation strains their close friendship.
17) A drop of hope
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Times are tough in the small town of Cliffs Donnelly, Ohio (sarcastically called If Only) especially for some of the kids at Rod Serling Middle School, but then an old dry well suddenly begins to grant wishes, or so it seems--three of the students, Ernest Wilmette, Ryan Hardy, and Lizzy MacComber, know what is happening (but do they really?), because sometimes a good deed can make magic happen.
18) Small town pride
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Jake is just starting to enjoy life as his school’s first openly gay kid. While his family and friends are accepting and supportive, the same can’t be said about everyone in their small town of Barton Springs, Ohio. When Jake’s dad hangs a comically large pride flag in their front yard in an overblown show of love, the mayor begins to receive complaints. A few people are even concerned the flag will lead to something truly outlandish: a pride...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Although Aunt Arlene tries to interest her in clothing and growing up, ten-year-old Mildred is entirely focused on growing a pumpkin big enough to win the annual Circleville, Ohio, contest, as her mother dreamed of doing before she died.