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101) Vanishing
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Eleven-year-old Alice is unwilling to return to live with her alcoholic mother and her stern stepfather, so she refuses to eat to the point of slowly starving herself, in order to remain in the hospital.
102) Jenna's dilemma
Author
Series
Camp confidential volume 2
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Contending with the separation of her parents and the unwanted presence of her twin brother and older sister at Camp Lakeview, Jenna is determined to make a name for herself by pulling the ultimate prank.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
When their family falls on hard times, thirteen-year-old Lila and her twelve-year-old brother, Hari, try desperately to keep their home intact--an almost impossible task until Hari gets a chance to go to Bombay and returns with some positive plans for the future.
104) Return to me
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Always following her parents' wishes and ignoring her psychic inner voice takes eighteen-year-old Rebecca Muir from her beloved cottage and boyfriend on Puget Sound to New York City, where revelations about herself and her family help her find a path to becoming the architect she wants to be.
105) Salt the water
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Cerulean Gene is free everywhere except school, where they’re known for repeatedly challenging authority. Raised in a free-spirited home by two loving parents who encourage Cerulean to be their full self, they’ve got big dreams of moving cross-country to live off the grid with their friends after graduation. But a fight with a teacher spirals out of control, and Cerulean impulsively drops out to avoid the punishment they fear is coming. Why wait...
106) The postcard
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
While in St. Petersburg, Florida, to help clean out his recently-deceased grandmother's house, thirteen-year-old Jason finds an old postcard which leads him on an adventure that blends figures from an old, unfinished detective story with his family's past.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
When his mother leaves to live with another man, nine-year-old Jeremy faces his own pain and loss, his father's depression and sister's distance, the pity of friends and strangers, and his father's remarriage two years later, finding solace in fishing and his artwork.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Brought together as pen pals by a school assignment, Sophie and Katie, eleven-year-olds living on opposite sides of the country, find comfort in their growing relationship when problems at home and at school disrupt their lives
109) Silent alarm
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Alys, a Plaineville, Wisconsin, junior who dreams of studying violin at Julliard, must deal with the aftermath of a tragic high school shooting in which her older brother, Luke, was the shooter.
Author
Series
Sofia (Henning Mankell) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Sofia, who lost her legs as a child, is now grown up with children in Mozambique, but when she discovers that Armando, the father of her children, is cheating on her, she leaves him, igniting his terrible rage.
111) Fancy white trash
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Fifteen-year-old Abby Savage hopes that her five rules for falling in love will keep her from making the same mistakes as her mother and two older sisters--all unwed mothers who have slept with the same man, among others--while she also tries to help her best friend Cody admit that he is gay, and decide how she really feels about Cody's older brother, Jackson.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Devastated by her parents' decision to split up, pressured by her boyfriend to have sex, and saddled with a case of chicken pox, fifteen-year-old Keek finds consolation in her beloved, well-worn copy of Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar."
113) Counting to perfect
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Ignored by her parents since her "perfect" older sister, Julia, had a baby, Cassie, twelve, foregoes her summer plans to join Julia and baby Addie on a road trip.
114) Granny
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In London, England, twelve-year-old Joe discovers that his grandmother is not just physically repulsive and horribly mean, she is also involved in an evil plot against him, but the adults around them fail to see behind her mask.
116) Never enough
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Sixteen-year-old Loann admires and envies her older sister Claire's strength, popularity, and beauty, but as Loann begins to open up to new possibilities in herself, she discovers that Claire's all-consuming quest for perfection comes at a dangerous price.
117) Una para los Murphys
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Carley usa el humor y su inteligencia de la calle para mantener sus muros emocionales altos y gruesos. Pero el día en que entra en adopción temporal y se muda con los Murphy, es como que le cayera un balde de agua fría encima. Esta familia cariñosa y muy activa le muestra a Carley una vida familiar estable que ella nunca pensó podría existir, y se siente como una extraterrestre en ese hogar perfecto. A pesar de su resistencia, los Murphy logran...
118) Every day after
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"A young girl fights to keep her mama out of the mental ward, her home away from the bank, and herself out of the orphanage after her father abandons her and her mother in depression era Alabama"--