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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Estranged from the best friend whose brother killed her sister in a school shooting, a grieving Cora receives a message on her twelfth birthday from her friend, asking for her help with creating a time portal to prevent the tragedy" --
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Language
English
Description
"Stuck at the Philadelphia airport by an incoming blizzard results, Mira hitches a ride to Pittsburgh with a group of college kids who were on her initial flight. As the trip begins she discovers that her fellow travelers aren't friends like she thought. They're strangers-- and every one of them seems to be hiding something dangerous. The roads go from slippery to terrifying. People's belongings disappear. Someone in the car is lying-- and may be...
3) Missing May
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living. Twelve-year-old Summer, her classmate Cletus, and her grieving Uncle Ob set off across West Virginia in search of a "Small Medium at Large" in fond hopes of reaching Aunt May beyond the grave. Their journey is heartening, funny, and altogether unforgettable.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"One year after a random shooting changed their family forever, Nora and her father are exploring a slot canyon deep in the Arizona desert, hoping it will help them find peace. But when they reach the bottom of the canyon, the unthinkable happens: a flash flood rips across their path, sweeping away Nora's father and all of their supplies. Suddenly, Nora finds herself lost and alone in the desert, facing dehydration, venomous scorpions, deadly snakes,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 550L
Language
English
Description
On Dead Wednesday, every eighth grader in Amber Springs is assigned the name and identity of a teenager who died a preventable death in the past year. The kids don black shirts and for the whole day everyone in town pretends they're invisible--as if they weren't even there. The adults think it will make them contemplate their mortality. The kids know its a free pass to get away with anything. Worm Tarnauer feels invisible every day, so he's not expecting...
Author
Series
Coyote Sunrise volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
"Five years. That's how long Coyote and her dad, Rodeo, have lived on the road in an old school bus, crisscrossing the nation. It's also how long ago Coyote lost her mom and two sisters in a car crash. Coyote hasn't been home in all that time. But when she learns that the park in her old neighborhood is being demolished-the very same park where she, her mom, and her sisters buried a treasured memory box-she devises an elaborate plan to get her dad...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Living in rural Virginia, ten-year-old Jess and Leslie become special friends as they create a magical secret world that they call Terabithia. But when a tragic accident causes Leslie's death during a storm, Jess is forced to face life alone. "This Newbery Medal-winning novel by bestselling-author Katherine Paterson has been a modern classic about friendship and loss for forty years. Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest...
10) A hundred horses
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Nell must spend spring break in the country with an aunt and cousins she has never met, but while there she meets a mysterious, wild girl with a strange connection to horses and an uncanny understanding of Nell.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"When Georgia finds a secret sketch her late father--a famed artist--left behind, the discovery leads her down a path that may reshape everything holding her family and friends together. Caroline Gertler's debut is a story about friendship, family, grief, and creativity"--WorldCat.
14) The barn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In an effort to fulfill their dying father's last request, nine-year-old Ben and his brother and sister construct a barn on their land in the Oregon Territory.
Author
Series
Orphans of the tide volume 1
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious boy washes in with the tide trapped inside the belly of a whale, Ellie must prove that he isn't ruled by the Enemy even if it means revealing her own dangerous secret"--WorldCat.
17) Bambi
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Retells the adventures of a young deer growing up and learning about life in the forest.
18) Zac & Mia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"The last person Zac expects in the room next door is a girl like Mia, angry and feisty with questionable taste in music. In the real world, he wouldn't--couldn't--be friends with her. In hospital different rules apply, and what begins as a knock on the wall leads to a note--then a friendship neither of them sees coming"--
19) The everafter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After her death, seventeen-year-old Maddy finds a way to revisit moments in her life by using objects that she lost while she was alive, and by so doing she tries to figure out the complicated emotions, events, and meaning of her existence.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
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