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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 Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn, meets twelve-year-old Jack, who narrates the account of the troubled, passionate teen who wants to find his baby at any cost.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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Margaret "Cuckoo" Clark keeps a journal detailing the trials and tribulations of high school life as she and her close-knit group of outcast friends try to break down the barriers between their school's "warring nations."
3) 29 locks
Author
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Growing up in Hackney with his loving but troubled single mum, fifteen-year-old Donny has been shaped by poverty, crime, and casual violence, including being groomed by a local gang. When his mum is jailed for drugs offences, Donny is fostered outside London to the Hertfordshire countryside. Life in the rural Home Counties is a bit like landing on another planet, but doing work experience on the Hertford Union Canal, Donny feels like he's finally...
5) Overdrive
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jules Parish turned to stealing cars to try to get her sister out of foster care, but after she is caught, a wealthy eccentic offers a promising--but perilous--solution.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Darcy Jones knows little about her past except that she was abandoned outside a Chicago firehouse at age five, but when the mysterious Conn arrives at her high school she begins to discover things about her past that she is not sure she likes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Haunted by memories of the fire that killed her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Alice Monroe is in a mental ward when, with support from fellow patient Chase, she begins to confront hidden truths in a journal, including that the only person she trusts may be telling her only half of the story.
9) In between
Author
Series
Katie Parker production volume 01
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Soon after moving to a small Texas town, fifteen-year-old Katie Parker's rebelliousness complicates her life at home and school, but when she is accused of vandalism, she finds hope through a new friendship, involvement in a play, and her foster family's faith in God and her.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
"Willow has never felt like she belonged anywhere and is convinced that the only way to find a true home is to travel the world. But her plans to act on her dream are put on hold when her aloof and often absent mother drags Willow to Salem, Massachusetts, to wrap up the affairs of an aunt Willow didn't even know she had. An aunt who may or may not have been a witch. There, she meets Mason, a loner who's always felt out of place and has been in and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to Greenwich, Connecticut, to study Latin in summer school, she does not expect the shocking events that occurred five years earlier to suddenly come flooding back into her relatively settled life.
12) Watch over me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A newly graduated Mila emerges from foster care to accept a job on an isolated Northern California Coast farm where she confronts haunting memories and the traumas of her fellow residents.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow from a...
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