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1) 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.
2) The fort
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
The morning after Hurricane Leo rips through the town of Canaan, residents awaken to widespread destruction -- power outages, downed branches, uprooted trees, broken windows and damaged roofs. Four eighth-grade friends -- Evan, Jason, Mitchell, and CJ -- meet to explore the devastation. The tight-knit group is dismayed to find that Evan has brought along a stray -- Ricky, who is new to their town and school, and doesn't have any friends yet. Ricky...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
AD 510L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The young girl tells us that her mom's new friend is just like the big bad wolf. At first the wolf is sweet and kind to her mom, though the girl notices the wolf's cold eyes from the very beginning. When her mom arrives home late one day, the wolf suddenly hurls angry words and terrible names at her. From that day on her mother doesn't smile anymore. The girl is careful to clean her room and brush her teeth and do everything to keep the peace, but...
Author
Series
All these monsters volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Clara runs away from home to join a vigilante monster-flghting squad, only to discover that sometimes the most dangerous monsters are where you least expect them." --
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ever since her father died in a terrible accident, Maddy Gaines has worried a lot. She calls the police so often that she's on a first-name basis with the sheriff. When a new boy moves to town, Maddy is convinced that he's not who he says he is--he's a boy who went missing six months ago. Maddy, her dog, her best friend, and her stepdad team up to see what he's hiding"--
6) 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.
8) Vinyl moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"A teen girl hiding the scars of a past relationship finds home and healing in the words of strong Black writers. A beautiful sophomore novel from a critically acclaimed author and poet that explores how words have the power to shape and uplift our world even in the midst of pain. When Darius told Angel he loved her, she believed him. But five weeks after the incident, Angel finds herself in Brooklyn, far from her family, from him, and from the California...
9) 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
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Knowing that the friendships she depends on will change when her parents split up, Beth witnesses a private act of violence in her crush's home before forging a pact with her friends to offer support in the face of a life-altering decision.
11) Life before
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Xander hopes to get through what he hopes is a great summer, and then start college with a clean slate; however, his graduation day from high school brings terror, and he runs away.
12) Sound of terror
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 580L
Language
English
Description
Philip is relocated to Florida from Los Angeles and is having a hard time adjusting to life when he hears ghostly cries from the green house down the road.
13) Taking sides
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
At odds with his sister, Tina, fourteen, who says their father murdered their mother, Todd, fifteen, who claims it was self-defense, begins to lose faith in their father when he pressures Todd to get Tina to change her story, and being in separate foster homes only makes things harder.
14) Mary underwater
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gaining courage from Joan of Arc, fourteen-year-old Mary Murphy navigates the waters of Chesapeake Bay in a submersible built with her friend, Kip, escaping the home where her violent father has just returned from prison. Includes facts about domestic violence and submersibles."-- Publisher's description.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At seventeen, Juana is sent to a Southern California juvenile correctional facility for killing her husband, which she denies having done. Separated from her baby, Katrina, whom she left in the care of relatives, she settles into her tough circumstances. As Juana's longings twist with regrets, she learns about her fellow inmates: some are Chicanas, some are gang members. Jester, a leader, bullies Juana about her Mexican background, shows her the...
16) The hideaway
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The wonderful long-awaited second novel from Pam Smy, celebrated author and illustrator of Thornhill. The Hideaway tells the story of a boy, Billy McKenna, who runs away from a difficult situation at home and takes refuge in an overgrown graveyard. While hiding there he meets an elderly man who is tending the graves in preparation for a day in November when something magical is set to happen. The book is written in two alternating narratives, both...
18) Franny Parker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through a hot, dry Oklahoma summer, twelve-year-old Franny tends wild animals brought by her neighbors, hears gossip during a weekly quilting bee, befriends a new neighbor who has some big secrets, and learns to hope.
19) Soy solo mía
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Hablar de maltrato y de violencia de género es una importante herramienta de prevención. En un álbum poético y hermoso, Raquel Díaz Reguera nos emociona con un tema presente y real. Ratona aprenderá y no olvidará la premisa: "No soy tuya, ni de nadie, soy solo mía". Ratón pregunta a Ratona: "¿Por qué te vistes así? Ponte esto" o "¿Qué habrás hecho para conseguir un ascenso en el trabajo?". Ratón se está convirtiendo en un gato. El...
20) Angryman
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
Description
There's someone in the living room. It's Daddy. It is Angryman. Boj's father can be very angry and violent. Boj calls this side of his father's personality "Angryman." When Angryman comes no one is safe. Until something powerful happens... Gro Dahle's astute text and Svein Nyhus's bold, evocative art capture the full range of emotions that descend upon a small family as they grapple with "Angryman." With an important message to children who experience...
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