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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Fifth grader Benny wants to focus on not flunking out of fifth grade, but he must also cope with his complicated home life with newly divorced parents, a mother who moves away, and a father with terminal lung cancer.
4) Hands
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Trevor has an adult problem to deal with: how to protect himself, his sisters, and his mother from his abusive stepfather (currently in prison) and he thinks the way to do that is to take up boxing--although he would really rather draw.
5) Pet
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Identical twins Giselle and Isabelle Boyer cling to each other even as their family comes apart at the seams, but a car crash is about to change everything. When Giselle regains consciousness in the hospital, she learns she can no longer move or speak. As she examines the role her friends and family, especially Isabelle, have played in making her who she is, Giselle faces a crucial choice between recovery and the endless abyss of regret.
Author
Series
Factory (Aya De Leon) volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Andrea Hernandez-Baldoquin hails from a family of spies working for the factory, an international organization dedicated to protecting people of color. Andrea has dreamed about getting her first solo mission, but she never imagined that she would have to straighten her hair and go undercover as a white girl to befriend the estranged son of a dangerous white supremacist. In order to gain the boy's trust, Andrea finds herself doing...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sydney's charismatic older brother Peyton has always been the center of attention in the family, but when he's sent to jail, Sydney struggles to find her place at home and the world until she meets the Chathams, including gentle, protective Mac, who makes her feel seen for the first time.
9) Guitar notes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Tripp Broody, who plays guitar only for himself, and Lyla, a cellist whose talent has already made her famous but not happy, form an unlikely friendship when they have to share a practice room at their high school.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
When she discovers long-lost relatives that have abilities like her own, Trix McCabe might have finally found somewhere she belongs, but when her past resurfaces, she'll have to decide whether to take a chance on this new life or keep running.
11) On the rocks
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this high-interest novel for middle readers, 14-year-old Dylan, sent to live on a remote island with his estranged grandfather, discovers a stranded orca."--
Fourteen-year-old Dylan is sent to live with his estranged grandfather, Angus. Basically strangers, the two avoid each other as best they can. One day Dylan discovers a young orca stranded high up on the rocky beach. Dylan runs to tell his grandfather. There's nothing that can be done, says...
12) Twelve
Author
Series
Winnie years volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Winnie relates the events of her twelfth year and the many changes in her relationships and in her attitude toward growing up.
13) 10 blind dates
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Sophie wants one thing for Christmas--a little freedom from her overprotective parents. So when they decide to spend Christmas in South Louisiana with her very pregnant older sister, Sophie is looking forward to some much needed private (read: make-out) time with her long-term boyfriend, Griffin. Except it turns out that Griffin wants a little freedom from their relationship. Cue devastation. Heartbroken, Sophie flees to her grandparents' house, where...
15) Visions: 1.Crash
Author
Series
Visions (Lisa McMann) volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jules, whose family owns an Italian restaurant and has a history of mental illness, starts seeing a recurring vision about a rival restaurant, a truck crash, and forbidden love.
Author
Series
Wars of the realm volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Validus, the only angel standing in the way of the demonic Fallen, has risen to a position of power and respect but is pushed beyond his abilities when he is assigned to protect one unbelieving man, Drew Carter, racing against time to discover why Drew is so important to humanity's survival.
Author
Series
Wars of the realm volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since the age of twelve when his father died, Drew has been mentored by one of his father's friends from Special Forces, and he must put his skills to use a few years later when he becomes involved in a war between realms.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Summer for Sasha and Ray means the sprawling old house on Long Island. Since they were children, they've shared almost everything--reading the same books, running down the same sandy footpaths to the beach, eating peaches from the same market, laughing around the same sun-soaked dining table. Even sleeping in the same bed, on the very same worn cotton sheets. But they've never met. Sasha's dad was once married to Ray's mom, and together they had three...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
A beautiful ghost appears to a troubled teen and shows her the heartbreaking secrets of her family's past. Fifteen-year-old Teresa has fallen in love - with a ghost. The handsome man that she's passed on the street a few times captures her attention, and she thinks he notices her too. But when the man suddenly appears inside her home, hovering in the air and passing through solid furniture, Teresa realizes this isn't going to be a typical crush. The...