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1) House arrest
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
While under house arrest for one year for stealing a wallet, young Timothy keeps free-verse notes on his life in a court-ordered journal as he deals with having a sick brother and tries to stay out of trouble.
2) Golden Arm
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Lazarus Weathers, a high school senior from the wrong side of the tracks, seeks to protect his half-brother while pitching his way out of poverty, one strike at a time.
Author
Publisher
Viking Juvenile
Pub. Date
2015.
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 is 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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Miranda Evans, her two brothers, and their mother struggle for survival a year after the moon's collision with a meteor altered the climate forever, and while things become more difficult with the arrival of six more people, including her father and stepmother, a new disaster threatens to derail the new lives they have been trying to build.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Adam not only is trying to understand his OCD, while trying to balance his relationship with his divorced parents, but he's also trying to navigate through the issues that teenagers normally face, namely the perils of young love"--
8) Solo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Blade endeavors to resolve painful issues from his past and navigate the challenges of his former rockstar father's addictions, scathing tabloid rumors, and a protected secret that threatens his own identity.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
For a responsible sixteen-year-old, Michael Wilson has a lot of problems--his father was killed in Afghanistan in 2005, his overworked and overprotective mother will not talk about their situation, and does not want him playing football, and he has suddenly started to receive letters that his father wrote before his death.
10) Royal wedding
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Princess Diaries series, comes the very first adult installment, which follows Princess Mia and her Prince Charming as they plan their fairy tale wedding-but a few poisoned apples could turn this happily-ever-after into a royal nightmare.
For Princess Mia, the past five years since college graduation have been a whirlwind of activity, what with living in New York City, running her new teen community...
11) The red umbrella
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1961 after Castro has come to power in Cuba, fourteen-year-old Lucia and her seven-year-old brother are sent to the United States when her parents, who are not in favor of the new regime, fear that the children will be taken away from them as others have been.
12) So Done
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When best friends Tai and Mila are reunited after a summer apart, their friendship threatens to combust from the pressure of secrets, middle school, and the looming dance auditions for a new talented-and-gifted program.
Fans of Renée Watson's Piecing Me Together will love this memorable story about a complex friendship between two very different African American girls—and the importance of speaking up.
Jamila
...13) Twelve
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Winnie relates the events of her twelth year and the many changes in her relationships and in her attitude toward growing up.
Author
Series
Confessions volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Tandy Angel moves to Paris for a fresh start with her siblings and to be reunited with James, her lost love, but her detective work soon uncovers long-buried family secrets that threaten to destroy her life"--
15) The fort
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a tight-knit group of middle school friends discover a trap door in the woods that leads to a completely intact bomb shelter, they vow to keep the place a secret while sharing their individual secrets to build the safest space possible.
16) If I Tell
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In this riveting contemporary YA read, she explores the consequences of keeping the ultimate secret. One small mistake. One giant secret. Jazz wasn't supposed to have seen her mother's boyfriend that night. Especially not making out with one of her friends! Worse yet, she goes to tell her mom and gets the ultimate bombshell: her mom's pregnant. Now, Jazz can never reveal what she's seen. No matter what. The only one who seems to understand her is...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A girl's perfect life falls apart when her mother is arrested for a white collar crime in this novel School Library Journal calls "realistic yet positive."
Carly Wheeler lives a charmed life. Her mother is a stylist for the soap opera Lovelock Falls, she lives in a nice house, and goes to an excellent private school. But when her mom is arrested and charged with embezzlement, everything starts to unravel. There are shocking stories about her mother's...
18) The chosen one
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In a polygamous cult in the desert, Kyra, not yet fourteen, sees being chosen to be the seventh wife of her uncle as just punishment for having read books and kissed a boy, in violation of Prophet Childs' teachings, and is torn between facing her fate and running away from all that she knows and loves.
19) Brilliant
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Quinn struggles to maintain her image as a brilliant, good girl when her mother's major error at work leads to financial and legal troubles that turn Quinn's and her younger sisters' world upside-down.
20) Outside Beauty
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"My mother had four daughters by four different men."
There's only one way Shelby and her sisters can describe their mother: She's a sexpot. Helen Kimura collects men (and loans, spending money, and gifts of all kinds) from all over the country. Sure, she's not your typical role model, but she's also not just a pretty face and nail polish. She is confident and brave; she lives life on her own terms, and her four daughters simply adore her. These...
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