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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
950L
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English
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When a series of chance events leaves him in possession of an urn with ashes, sixteen-year-old Londoner, Lucas Swain, becomes convinced that its occupant, Violet Park, is communicating with him, initiating a voyage of self-discovery that forces him to finally confront the events surrounding his father's sudden disappearance.
2) Benito runs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Benito's father, Xavier, returns from Iraq after more than a year suffering from PTSD--post-traumatic stress disorder--and yells constantly. He causes such a scene at a school function that Benny is embarrased to go back to Southside High. Benny can't handle seeing his dad so crazy, so he decides to run away. Will Benny find a new life, or will he learn how to deal with his dad--through good times and bad?
3) Lush
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
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Unable to cope with her father's alcoholism, thirteen-year-old Sam corresponds with an older student, sharing her family problems and asking for advice.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
The two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt delivers the shattering story of Joseph, a father at thirteen, who has never seen his daughter, Jupiter. After spending time in a juvenile facility, he's placed with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn, meets twelve-year-old Jack, who narrates the account of the troubled, passionate teen who wants to find his baby at any cost. In this riveting novel, two boys...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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High school senior Jeff Browning is upset when he learns that his girlfriend is pregnant and determined not to let a baby ruin his plans to go to college on a debate scholarship, but his feelings change after the baby is born.
7) Love is love
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English
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"It's love that makes a family. When a boy confides in is friend about bullies saying he doesn't have a real family, he discovers that his friend's parents--a mom and a dad--and his two dads are actually very much alike." - From back cover
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This dad is not like other dads. He is not good at: mowing the lawn, getting his children to school on time, baking cakes, fixing a leaky faucet, or remembering bed time. But, he is good at: making mazes, getting his children to school eventually, eating cakes, making bubble baths, and telling bedtime stories. And this is what makes him so special.
9) Omega City
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Series
Omega City volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Determined to prove her conspiracy theorist father's beliefs about lost Cold War technology, Gillian, her skeptical brother, and their friends journey to the ruins of a vast doomsday bunker before they are confronted by dangerous adversaries.
10) The baby
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English
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When Nicola gives birth at her best friend Olivia's seventeenth birthday party, the lives of five teenagers are changed forever--and in the months that follow Nicola, Olivia, Jonty, Ben, and Olivia's eleven-year-old sister, Alice, struggle with their changed relationships.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Atticus Hobart couldn't feel lower. He's in love with a girl who doesn't know he exists, he is the class bully's personal punching bag, and to top it all off, his dad has just left the family. Into this drama steps Mr. Looney, a 77-year-old substitute English teacher with uncanny insight and a most unconventional approach to teaching. But Atticus soon discovers there's more to Mr. Looney's methods than he'd first thought. And as Atticus begins to...
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In this story with alternate scenarios, a simple flip of a coin changes the destinies of three musical prodigies involved in a love triangle and dealing with absentee fathers.
"Moved from city to city by her father's job, Stevie Rosenstein finds it too hard in trust in anyone or anything. The pain of leaving always hurts too much. Drew and Shane have been best friends through everything. The painful death of Shane's dad; the bitter separation of...
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Life for Dinora Diaz, DeeDee for short, is full of D's. Missing her dad, who's disappeared. Being diagnosed with diabetes. Feeling dumb in fourth grade at her new school, which she transferred into-leaving behind Sandro Zapote and all her other friends in Miss Hamilton's class-after her family's trailer burned down. It's so many D's that DeeDee's sure she'll never really fit in, much less find the perfect best friend she's always wanted. Then DeeDee...
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