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1) Abduction!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Bonnie has a feeling of foreboding on the very day that her six-year-old brother Matt and their dog Pookie are abducted, and she becomes involved in a major search effort as well as a frightening adventure. Matt is missing. Bonnie's brother left his classroom to use the bathroom --and disappeared. A police dog traces his scent to the curb, where he apparently got into a vehicle. But why would Matt go anywhere with a stranger? Overwhelmed...
2) Honestly Ben
Author
Series
Openly straight volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Description
Ben Carver returns for the spring semester at the exclusive Natick School in Massachusetts determined to put his relationship with Rafe Goldberg behind him and concentrate on his grades and the award that will mean a full scholarship--but Rafe is still there, there is a girl named Hannah whom he meets in the library, and behind it all is his relationship with his distant, but demanding father.
3) Ripper
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adopted by famous Pinkerton Agency Detective Hawking in 1895 New York, fourteen-year-old Carver Young hopes to find his birth father, but when he becomes involved in the pursuit of notorious killer Jack the Ripper, Carver discovers that finding the truth can be worse than ignorance.
4) Wirewalker
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fourteen-year-old Clarence Feather tries to survive in his impoverished neighborhood in the aftermath of his mother's murder"--
5) 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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Xavier's father returns to Boston after serving ten years in federal prison, tensions quickly mount and Xavier's anger explodes on the baseball field, making it less likely that he will achieve his dream of playing in the major leagues than that he will follow his father's path.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Raised by an unstable father who keeps constantly on the move, Sam Border has long been the voice of his silent younger brother, Riddle, but everything changes when Sam meets Emily Bell and, welcomed by her family, the brothers are faced with normalcy for the first time.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
When the coach's son, shawn o'brien, is chosen to play quarterback, eleven-year-old ben mcbain is not surprised--but when he tries to be a good teammate and help the inconsistent shawn, he is startled to learn that his new friend does not really want the position.
Author
Series
Loveboat volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Sophie Ha and Xavier Yeh have what some would call a tumultuous past, but at least they're friends now. They left the drama behind them at the summer program in Taipei. Sophie is determined to be the best student Dartmouth's ever had. Xavier just wants to stay under his overbearing father's radar, collect his trust fund when he turns eighteen, and concentrate on what makes him happy, for the first time ever. But Sophie's college professor thinks...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year-old Anthony Joplin has made it to double digits! Which means he's finally old enough to play in the spades tournament every Joplin Man before him seems to have won. So while Ant's friends are stressing about fifth grade homework and girls, Ant only has one thing on his mind: how he'll measure up to his father's expectations at the card table. Then Ant's best friend gets grounded, and he's forced to find another spades partner. And Shirley,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Skylar Gray is adopted, nonverbal, and he feels most comfortable wearing skirts. Life has never been easy, but with a fresh start at a brand-new school, with new parents and in a new state, he just might finally make some friends. Maybe. Honestly it's hard to focus on anything when gorgeous rocker boy Jacob is around. But it's hard for Skylar to trust anyone when people have always been quick to ditch him at the first inconvenience; they always seem...
12) Dark sons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.
14) Raising dragons
Author
Series
Dragons in our midst volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Billy thinks he is just a typical teenager until his abnormally hot breath accidentally sets off the fire sprinklers in the school bathroom, prompting his parents to reveal a long-kept secret: Billy is actually part dragon. Shortly after, a new girl, Bonnie, arrives at school with her own secret. Unsure of who else to trust, Billy and Bonnie team up to discover their part in an Arthurian legend that started with their parents over a millennium ago....
15) The lying woods
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
Owen Foster is pulled from his elite New Orleans boarding school when his father's assets are seized and, back in his small town, begins to piece together his father's past despite mounting danger.
16) Your corner dark
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The second Frankie Green gets that scholarship letter, he has his ticket out of Jamaica. The second his longtime crush, Leah, asks him on a date, he's in trouble. The second his father gets shot, suddenly nothing else matters. And the second Frankie joins his uncle's gang in exchange for paying for his father's medical bills, there's no going back-- or is there?"--
17) Storm runners
Author
Series
Storm runners volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Chase Masters travels the country with his father, a "storm runner," but he is tested in ways he never could have imagined when he and a new friend are caught in a hurricane near St. Petersburg, Florida.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Optics can make or break an election. Everything Mark knows about politics, he learned from his father, the Congressman who still pretends he has a daughter and not a son. Mark has promised to keep his past hidden and pretend to be the cis guy everyone assumes he is. But when he sees a manipulatively charming candidate for student body president inflame dangerous rhetoric, Mark risks his low profile to become a political challenger. The problem?...
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