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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Young Katy Thatcher, the daughter of the town doctor, becomes friends with Jacob, a teenager who is "touched in the head," which allows her to understand what really happened when the unwanted infant of Jacob's sister is found dead.
Author
Series
Jack Henry adventure volume 04
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
After moving with his unbearable sister to Miami, Florida, Jack tries to break some of his bad habits but finds himself irresistibly drawn to things disgusting, gross, and weird.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Elric and his mother secretly care for his mentally disabled sister, Wynn, whom the villagers consider a changeling, until their father threatens to sell her, so they flee into the forest, even though Elric does not share her belief in magic.
4) Smiles to go
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Will Tuppence's life has always been ruled by science and common sense but in ninth grade, shaken up by the discovery that protons decay, he begins to see the entire world differently and gains new perspective on his relationships with his little sister and two closest friends.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
It has been three horrible months since thirteen-year-old Chris Barton's little sister Molly was declared "missing, presumed drowned". One night Chris looks at a video he made the day Molly was lost and he notices something unusual. With few clues and his best friend, he sets out to discover what really happened that terrible day.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity. Louise resents her twin sister's beauty and accomplishments in this novel set in the Chesapeake Bay area.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Jay is forced to continually cover for his sister, Nicole, who hangs out with the wrong crowd; however, Jay can't deal with it any more. Soon after, Nic fails to return home. When she's deemed missing, the police barely bother to search for her; she's just another lost Black girl. Jay feels guilty and he thinks, "If I hadn't hung up on her that night, she would be home spending time with our grandma. If I was a better brother, she'd be finishing senior...
10) Lucky in love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 520L
Language
English
Description
Maddie is a hard working high school senior, waiting to hear from the colleges she applied to, when on a whim she buys a lottery ticket and wins; suddenly she is the center of everybody's attention, including her struggling family, and not necessarily in a good way--only Seth Nguyen, her charming coworker at the local zoo, seems oblivious to her luck, and Maddie is not sure whether telling him will change their developing relationship.
12) A girl like me
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English
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A high school beauty is out to save her troubled family when she meets a hip-hop Prince Charming in this YA urban Cinderella story.
She's got a voice like Keisha Cole and attitude to burn. She's the body-rockin', Bebe-sporting girl everyone in her high school wants to be—or be with. But behind her picture-perfect image, sixteen-year-old Elite has a crack-addicted mother, no father in sight, and is secretly raising her sister...
She's got a voice like Keisha Cole and attitude to burn. She's the body-rockin', Bebe-sporting girl everyone in her high school wants to be—or be with. But behind her picture-perfect image, sixteen-year-old Elite has a crack-addicted mother, no father in sight, and is secretly raising her sister...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Description
Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, discovers that she is the middle child in her biological family after she gives up her own child for adoption, and she struggles to find belonging as she tries to bond with her stoic older brother and outspoken younger sister.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
An overweight, timid fifteen-year-old boy and his popular fourteen-year-old sister begin to overcome their guilt over their father's death and reconnect with each other and their emotionally-distant mother when they accompany her on a two-week speaking tour.
15) Green gravy
Author
Series
Cul-de-sac kids volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Student of the Week, Carly makes a wish that her classmates celebrate St. Patrick's Day by wearing green and eating green food, but not everyone in the class agrees.
Author
Series
Tapper twins volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
An oral history that reports, through transcribed recordings, text messages, photographs, illustrations, screenshots, and more, an epic prank war between twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper of New York City.
Author
Series
Cul-de-sac kids volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their new Korean sisters do not arrive at the airport, Abby and Carly have a mystery to solve, with God's help.
18) A summer to die
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Meg envys her sister's beauty and popularity. Her feelings don't make it any easier for her to cope with Molly's strange illness and eventful death.
19) Clever Rachel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this retelling of a Jewish folktale, Rachel and Jacob must work together to solve the trickiest riddles of all.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
"Seventh-grader Zoey Albro focuses on caring for three younger siblings and avoiding rich classmates at school until her fascination with octopuses gets her on the debate team and she begins to speak out"--WorldCat.
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