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1) Heartbeat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant.
Author
Series
Friends for keeps (Julie Bowe) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her best friend moves away, fourth-grader Ida May is determined not to make another best friend, despite the efforts of a new girl in her class.
4) Force out
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Joey has to compete with his best friend, Zach, for a single spot on an elite baseball team, he is forced to decide how far he is willing to go to win"--
5) Perfect girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ninth-grader Ruthie Bayer realizes that she is in love with her best friend Perry, the boy next door, but when competition appears, Ruthie calls on her glamorous aunt for advice.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
With her best friends pulling away from her, her newly-separated parents deciding she should spend the summer at her father's new home, and a babysitting job she does not want, Marley's life is already as precarious as an overfull water balloon when a cute boy enters the picture.
7) Freefall
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Briar Academy senior Luke prefers avoiding conflict and letting others make his decisions, but he is compelled to choose whether or not to stand by the best friend whose reckless behavior has endangered Luke and may have caused another student's death.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Isaac Thompson and his friends, Max and Emma, go to Castle Elementary, which is a school in a creepy castle--but when Isaac's little sister Lily goes missing in the basement, things get positively dangerous, because the three friends discover that underground is a world inhabited by a human-sized bat, and an army of spear-wielding rats, and somehow Isaac and his friends must find Lily and get out alive.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her best friend dares her to become part of the popular crowd and record her experiences in a diary, fifteen-year-old Mimi's world turns upside down when the diary gets into the wrong hands.
13) Me and Billy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After escaping the orphanage where they have spent their lives together, two boys become assistants to a con artist, and while Possum objects to the lying, stealing, and cheating, Billy only cares about making money and taking life easy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chloe Cho is a Korean American seventh-grader who would like to get in touch with many of the aspects of her heritage, but her parents are unwilling to talk about it--then when a class assignment forces Chloe to confront them directly, they finally tell her the truth about her family, which may just be too much for one girl to handle.
Author
Language
English
Description
Mourning the death of her best friend Vanessa, seventeen-year-old Bailey creates a chat bot using their text messages and emails, but, unsatisfied with the result, Bailey seeks out more data for the app and uncovers Vanessa's secrets, forcing Bailey to reconcile what she thought she knew about her friend with what Vanessa kept hidden.
16) Dough boys
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
"Told in two voices, thirteen-year-old best friends Simp and Rollie play on a basketball team in their housing project, but Rollie dreams of being a drummer and Simp, to impress the gang leader, Coach Tez"--Title verso page.
18) Bitter end
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When seventeen-year-old Alex starts dating Cole, a new boy at her high school, her two closest friends increasingly mistrust him as the relationship grows more serious.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
Four years after her brother Simon drowned while in her charge, Francesca, now fifteen, begins to move on after a summer caring for Frankie, who seems to be Simon reincarnated, and getting closer to her best friend's boyfriend.
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