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1) Gossamer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
"Littlest One is a tiny creature slowly learning her job of giving dreams to humans. Each night she and her teacher visit an old woman's home where they softly touch beloved objects, gathering happy memories and drops of old scents and sounds. Littlest One pieces these bits together and presents them to her sleeping human in the form of pleasant dreams. But the dreaded Sinisteeds, dark, fearsome creatures that plague their victims with nightmares,...
2) Call me Hope
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Oregon, eleven-year-old Hope begins coping with her mother's verbal abuse by devising survival strategies for herself based on a history unit about the Holocaust. Meanwhile, she works toward buying a pair of purple hiking boots by helping at a second-hand shop. Includes "Hope notes" and readers' guide.
3) Bruiser
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Brontë befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 117
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Claudia starts babysitting for a new family, she suspects the father is abusing his children.
5) Trapped
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
HL 560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Kevin makes a startling discovery that he hides from his abusive foster parents."--
6) Lock and key
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York City where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.
8) Unleashed
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jace has taken up boxing on the wrong side of the tracks as he prepares to seek vengeance on his abusive father with two other teen vigilantes.
10) The 75-cent son
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Constantly criticized by his father, a young dyslexic man tries to prove his worth when a fire threatens to sink their ship.
11) Forged by fire
Author
Series
Hazelwood High trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Teenage Gerald, who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, faces the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved. "Gerald Nickelby, a minor character in 'Tears of a Tiger' (1994), emerges full-fledged and courageous in this companion story. His stable life with a firm but loving aunt (who is caring for him while his mother serves a prison sentence for child neglect) is shattered when...
12) Claws
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Cody trades one dangerous situation for another when he runs away from his abusive mother and takes a job caring for lions and tigers on a Texas ranch where one of the owners has supposedly gone missing.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Meet Sophie LaCroix, a creative soul with a desire to become a great film director someday, and she definitely has a flair for drama! Her overactive imagination frequently lands her in trouble, but her faith and friends always save the day. From best-selling author, Nancy Rue, comes two-in-one bindups of the popular Sophie series. Sophie Flakes Out: Sophie wants more privacy like her friend Willoughby, who has plenty, until Willoughby's father finds...
14) Blood family
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A boy with an abusive father grows up and fears that he has the same potential for violence as his father has.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twin sisters Nettie and Nellie Crook are taken away from their disfunctional parents in 1910 when they are only five years old, and placed in an orphanage--at six they are put on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society and moved from New York City to Kansas, ending up in a household where they are treated more as servants than children.
16) Still waters
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
High-schooler Jason, who lives with a drunk, abusive father at home, hopes to earn enough money to escape with his younger sister, Janie, by being tough at school, but the stakes grow ever more dangerous and soon even his fists and ability to think on his feet are not enough to keep his head above water.
18) Split
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Language
English
Description
A teenage boy who is thrown out of his house by his abusive father goes to live with his older brother, who ran away from home years ago to escape the abuse.
19) A list of cages
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
When Adam Blake lands the best elective ever in his senior year, serving as an aid to the school psychologist, he thinks he's got it made. Sure, it means a lot of sitting around, which isn't easy for a guy with ADHD, but he can't complain, since he gets to spend the period texting all his friends. Then the doctor asks him to track down a troubled freshman who keeps dodging her, and Adam discovers the boy is Julian - the foster brother he hasn't seen...
20) What comes after
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
When her veterinarian father dies, sixteen-year-old Iris Wight must move from Maine to North Carolina where her Aunt Sue spends Iris's small inheritance while abusing her physically and emotionally, but the hardest thing to take is her mistreatment of the farm animals.
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