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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa.
2) Dunk
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
While hoping to work as the clown in an amusement park dunk tank on the New Jersey shore the summer before his junior year in high school, Chad faces his best friend's serious illness, hassles with police, and the girl that got away.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Zoe thought that being cut from her ballet program was the worst thing that could happen, but when her best friend Olivia is diagnosed with a life-threatening disease, Zoe quickly learns that not being able to dance is the least of her problems"--
4) Kick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, thirteen-year-old soccer star Kevin and police sergeant Brown, who knew his father, try to keep Kevin out of juvenile hall after he is arrested on very serious charges.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Rosie and her sixteen-year-old sister Skate are looked after by their cousin Angie while their father, a drunk, spends a few weeks in jail, and both girls endure problems with boyfriends and family while living in an old Victorian house on the Jersey shore.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Feeling left out since her long-time best friend started a serious relationship, sixteen-year-old Emily looks forward to a summer program at the Philadelphia College of Art but is not sure she is up to the challenges to be faced there, including finding herself and learning to balance life and art.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
New Jersey girl Zora Emerson is attending her pre-college prep at Halstead University, where the incredibly wealthy and stuck-up students go, and after only a week she is feeling academically confident but socially out of place; then an awkward mix-up ofcell phones brings her into closer contact with Owen Whittelsey (prince of a small European country) and his security guards--but it is when Owen asks her to be his date at his brother's royal wedding...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Edison, New Jersey, in a museum devoted to the inventor Thomas Edison, a loner sixteen-year-old girl with symbrachydactyly and the seemingly coolest boy in school spend the night during a snowstorm, growing close until a shameful secret threatens everything.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Mira lives in a small island beach town off the coast of New Jersey year-round, and when a devastating superstorm strikes she will face the storm's wrath and the destruction it leaves behind alone.
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Description
At college in New York City, Janie Johnson, aka Jennie Spring, seems to have successfully left behind her past as "The face on the milk carton," but soon she, her families, and friends are pursued by a true-crime writer who wants their help in telling her kidnapper's tale.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
As she turns twelve during the summer of 1953, Penny gains new insights into herself and her family while also learning a secret about her father's death. It's 1953 and 11-year-old Penny dreams of a summer of butter pecan ice cream, swimming, and baseball. But nothing's that easy in Penny's family. For starters, she can't go swimming because her mother's afraid she'll catch polio at the pool. To make matters worse, her favorite uncle is living in...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Four suburban New Jersey students from the Leo R. Gittleman Jewish Day School form a rock band that becomes inexplicably popular, creating exhiliration, friction, confrontation, and soul-searching among its members.
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