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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
590L
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Irene helps in her grandfather's plant nursery, makes new friends, and begins to learn what she really wants and needs after her father, having lost his job as an investment banker, moves her and her mother to his father's farmhouse upstate.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dina is used to being popular but starting a new school in eighth grade is difficult, especially where cliques rule, and although working with "queen bee" Chelsea on a video project should help, Chelsea is hiding huge family problems that could mean trouble for both girls.
Author
Series
Shawn McDaniel ; volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Shawn McDaniel, almost fifteen, cannot speak and has no control over his body due to severe cerebral palsy, but he forms a strong connection with his mother's cousin Debi, who has Down Syndrome, and her dog Rusty.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Frankie Parsons has a quirky family, a wonderful best friend, and a head full of worrying questions that he shares with his mother each night, but when free-spirited Sydney arrives at school with questions of her own, Frankie is forced to face the ultimate ten p.m. question.
Author
Series
Real life (Nancy N. Rue) volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jessie Hatcher, forced to go to Florida with the father she thought was dead, finds that his faith, a book that seems to speak to her heart, and new friends help her get control of her ADHD and her life.
Author
Series
Hallowed ones volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amish teen Katie smuggles a gravely injured young man, an outsider, into her family's barn despite the elders' ruling that no one can come in or out of the community while some mysterious and massive unrest is wreaking havoc in the "English" world.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After discovering that her father has multiple sclerosis, fifteen-year-old Payton begins counseling sessions at school, which lead her to become interested in a boy in her biology class, have a falling out with her best friend, develop an interest in bike riding, and eventually allow her to come to terms with life's uncertainties.
10) The gun
Author
Series
Bluford series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tyray Hobbs wants revenge. With a broken hand, a troubled family, and no friends in sight, Tyray's options are limited. And when the kids he once bullied start threatening him, his world completely unravels. Desperate to settle the score and regain respect, he sees only one solution to his problems---a gun.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Rosalind continues to straddle the proper English world of her family and the culture of 1920s India where they live, her support of Gandhi and his followers in opposing British rule grows and she considers trying to carry the rebels' message to Edward, Prince of Wales, during his visit.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Sheridan, a master cake-decorator like her mother, loves her small Michigan town so when her father announces they will move to New York City, where his dream of hosting a cooking show will come true, Sheridan fears for her budding romance and becomes desperate to contact her long-absent mother.
14) Spud
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1990, thirteen-year-old John "Spud" Milton, a prepubescent choirboy, keeps a diary of his first year at an elite, boys-only boarding school in South Africa, as he deals with bizarre housemates, wild crushes, embarrassingly dysfunctional parents, and much more.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1969 in Spanish Harlem, and fourteen-year-old Evelyn Serrano is trying hard to break free from her conservative Puerto Rican surroundings, but when her activist grandmother comes to stay and the neighborhood protests start, things get a lot more complicated--and dangerous.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Drew starts the summer of 1986 helping in her mother's cheese shop and dreaming about co-worker Nick, but when her widowed mother begins dating, Drew's father's book of lists, her pet rat, and Emmett, a boy on a quest, help her cope.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to live with her family.
18) Palace beautiful
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
After her move in 1985 to Salt Lake City, thirteen-year-old Sadie finds a journal in a hidey-hole in the attic, and along with her sister and new friend she reads about the influenza epidemic of 1918.
19) Dreamhunter
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a world where select people can enter "The Place" and find dreams of every kind to share with others for a fee, a fifteen-year-old girl is training to be a dreamhunter when her father disappears, leaving her to carry on his mysterious mission.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
700L
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.
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