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Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
344 pages ;Â 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A taut and darkly gripping debut novel about a fierce teenaged girl's struggle to reclaim her life. Fifteen-year-old Roan has always known two worlds: inside the horse riding arena, and outside. Both, for as long as she can remember, have been ruled by her father, who demands strict obedience in all aspects of her life. The warped power dynamic of coach and rider extends far beyond the stables, and Roan's relationship with her father has long been...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
223 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Five teens who were partly responsible for a death a year earlier are lured by the promise of a $50,000 prize to an isolated mansion by someone bent on revenge.
7) Junk Boy
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
352 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Bobby, who is bullied by the kids at school for living in a home with a front yard that is filled with garbage, meets a young artist who teaches him to see himself as more than "Junk Boy.""--
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
135 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Connor Sullivan, All-Star third baseman on his Babe Ruth League team, has a terrible temper and problems at home, but when the sports editor of the school paper threatens to publish an embarrassing story about his tantrums, Connor must make a change.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
242 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Angel's self-absorbed mother leaves her and her younger brother with their poor great-grandmother, the eleven-year-old girl worries not only about her mother and brother, her imprisoned father, the frail old woman, but also about a mysterious man who begins sharing with her the wonder of the stars.
10) Coming apart
Author
Series
Main Street volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
200 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nikki relies on support from her friends Flora, Ruby, and Olivia when her father comes back after leaving the family and she does not know what to expect.
11) Doll bones
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
244 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Don Schmidt wins a chicken-judging contest in his small town of Horse Island, Louisiana, and goes from outcast to instant celebrity, even his neglectful mother occasionally takes notice of him and eventually he discovers some shocking family secrets.
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, childhood best friends Jessie and Scarlett reconnect at his grandmother's funeral and start to share their secrets and feelings for each other.
15) Tangled
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The lives of four very different teenagers become entangled in ways that none of them could have imagined after a short stay at a Caribbean resort.
16) Luna
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Regan's life, which has always revolved around keeping her older brother Liam's transsexuality a secret, changes when Liam decides to start the process of "transitioning" by first telling his family and friends that he is a girl who was born in a boy's body.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
170 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
18) Check & Mate
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First printing.
Physical Desc
352 pages : 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays. After the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory's focus is on her mom, her sisters, and the dead-end job that keeps the lights on. That is, until she begrudgingly agrees to play in one last charity tournament and inadvertently wipes the board with notorious "Kingkilller" Nolan Sawyer: current world champion and reigning bad boy of chess.
Nolan's loss...
19) Dust
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her father has a premonition, Thea and her family move to the Bloodless Valley of southern Colorado, hoping to make a fresh start. But the rivers are dry, the crops are dying, and the black blizzards of Colorado have returned. Much like the barren land, Thea feels her life has stopped growing. She is barely homeschooled, forbidden from going to the library, and has no way to contact her old friends―all due to her parents’ fear of the outside...
20) Dear Martin
Author
Series
Dear Martin volume 1
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
210 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Justyce McAllister is top of his class at Braselton Prep, captain of the debate team, and set for an Ivy League school next year--but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. He's eventually released without charges (or an apology), but the incident rattles him. Despite leaving his rough neighborhood, he can't seem to escape the scorn of his former peers or the attitude of his new classmates. The only exception: Sarah...
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