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1) Twisted
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of the clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one.
3) Blended
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
""You're so exotic!!" "You look so unusual." "But what are you really?" Eleven-year-old Isabella - whose father is black and mother is white - is used to these kinds of comments, but it doesn't mean she likes them. And now that her parents are divorced (and getting along WORSE THAN EVER), Isabella feels like a push-me-pull-me toy. Being split between Mom and Dad is more than switching houses, switching nicknames, switching backpacks: It's switching...
5) Grace notes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gracie Doe doesn't mind being the invisible girl at school since it allows her to gather information for her online blog, but when the new girl discovers Gracie's Internet identity, Gracie must accept God's help and his plan for her.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Franny and her friends, The Ordinary, fill their time in traumatized Spendor, Ohio, filming their investigations of local legends for YouTube, but when they investigate a cosmic event, everything changes." --
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fox Street means everything to Mo Wren, who is nearly eleven, and so she is very upset when a land developer offers to buy her father's house, especially since she has not yet found the fox she is sure lives in the nearby ravine.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year old Rebecca Carter's father brings a Native American accused of murder into their 1812 Ohio settlement town, Rebecca, witnessing the town's reaction to the Indian, struggles with the idea that an innocent man may be convicted and sentenced to death.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Nicholas and his ten-year-old, twin sisters, Hetty and Haley, spend the summer with their Great-Uncle Nick at Forsaken Lake, where he and their new friend Charlie investigate the truth about an accident involving their families many years before.
11) What a pair!
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twins Mattie and Mark Miller are as different as night and day... It seems there isn't anything these energetic nine-year-olds can agree on. When their disagreements begin to cause big trouble in their Holmes County, Ohio, Amish community, will Mattie and Mark call a truce before it's too late?"--p. [4] of cover.
12) Fat Angie
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Fat Angie's sister was captured in Iraq, she's the resident laughing stock at school, and her therapist tells her to count instead of eat. Can a daring new girl in her life really change anything?
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
A black family of five moves into an enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events as well as the discovery of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While trying to focus on a winning soccer season, thirteen-year-old Tess becomes involved in local politics when she learns that all sports programs at her school will be stopped unless a tax levy is passed.
15) Pedro & Daniel
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Growing up in 1970s Ohio, Mexican American brothers Pedro and Daniel, who are not like other boys, manage an abusive home life, school, coming out, first loves, first jobs, and the AIDS epidemic, leaning on each other always and forever.
16) Upsetting Annie
Author
Series
Blog on volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everything seems to be going well for fifteen-year-old Annie, between her popular blog, good friends, and cheerleading, but when her cousin Shawna returns from Paris and becomes the center of attention, Annie cannot help but be jealous.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Spencer Harris is a proud nerd, an awesome big brother, and a David Beckham in training. He's also transgender. After transitioning at his old school leads to a year of isolation and bullying, Spencer gets a fresh start at Oakley, the most liberal private school in Ohio. At Oakley, Spencer seems to have it all: more accepting classmates, a decent shot at a starting position on the boy's soccer team, great new friends, and maybe even...
18) Warm as wool
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
When Betsy Ward's family moves to Ohio from Connecticut in 1803, she brings along a sockful of coins to buy sheep so that she can gather wool, spin cloth, and make clothes to keep her children warm.
19) Watercress
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 610L
Language
English
Description
"Driving through Ohio in an old Pontiac, a young girl's parents stop suddenly when they spot something growing in a ditch by the side of the road ... watercress! With an old paper bag and some rusty scissors, the whole family wades into the muck to collect as much of the muddy, snail-covered plant as they can. At first, it's embarrassing. Why can't her family get food at the grocery store? But when her mother shares the story of her family's...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
The stress of hiding a horrific incident that she can neither remember nor completely forget leads sixteen-year-old Cassidy "Sid" Murphy to become alienated from her friends, obsess about weight loss, and draw close to Corey "The Living Stoner" Livingston.
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