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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
Living with her warden father in an apartment above a 1950s prison, Cammie O'Reilly struggles to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who died saving her from harm when she was a baby, and interacts with some of the reformed inmates.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Struggling with her mother's advancing mental illness in the months after her father's death from complications of AIDS, a girl in the 1983 Boston suburbs befriends an imaginative boy with his own troubles before threats to her safety force her to make a difficult choice.
3) Caprice
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
"After a wonderful seven weeks at Ainsley International School, twelve-year-old Caprice has been offered a full scholarship and she should be delighted, but instead she is full of doubts because what happened at the last night dance has brought back the memory of being sexually abused by her uncle as a four-year-old; worse, her maternal grandmother is ill, and that means going back to the house in Baltimore where it all happened--Caprice has never...
4) Upstander
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mary O'Malley is tired of keeping secrets. Secrets like her older brother, Jonny's, drug use...When two girls Mary thought were her friends decide to slam another girl online, Mary tries to look the other way. Then the girls turn on Mary, and suddenly, she doesn't have a safety zone. Her brother is out of control, her family's energies are all spent on him. There is only one person she can turn to"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Maisie is an artist. When she's in front of her sketchbook or apprenticing at Glenna's Portraits, the family-run art shop her grandmother started, the world makes sense. She doesn't think about Calum, her brother who mysteriously left home and cut ties with her family six years ago, or her parents' insistence that she “broaden her horizons” and try something new--something that isn't art. But when Glenna's Portraits falls on hard...
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