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Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Alice Ozma tells the story of how she and her father, an elementary school librarian, set a goal when she was in fourth grade of reading together for one hundred consecutive nights and continued on until she went away to college, and discusses the bond that developed between her and her dad, and the life lessons she learned from their time together.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 340L
Language
English
Description
In Haley's high school there are two boys named Martin Nathaniel Munroe II (cousins), and one of them has started a text conversation with her, which becomes an all-consuming exchange between two people who see themselves as outsiders, but the only trouble is that Haley really does not know which Martin she is talking to, and actually meeting face-to-face may lead to an epic meltdown.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Author Erin Vincent describes her life after her parents were both killed in a car accident, leaving her parentless at the age of fourteen with a seventeen-year-old sister and a three-year-old brother; and gives a description of the stages of grief she experienced.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Paige Rawl was an ordinary girl.
Cheerleader, soccer player, honor roll student. One of the good kids at her middle school.
Then, on an unremarkable day, Paige disclosed the one thing that made her "different": her HIV-positive status.
It didn't matter that she was born with the disease or that her illness posed no danger to her classmates.
Within hours, the bullying began.
They called her PAIDS. Left cruel notes
...Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Argues that the combination of sugars, fats, and salts "hijacks" the human body's eating habits, creating a dangerous cycle of overeating, and promotes healthy eating habits and methods to avoid overeating.
9) The savage
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
A boy tells about a story he wrote when dealing with his father's death about a savage kid living in a ruined chapel in the woods--and the tale about the savage kid coming to life in the real world.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Overweight thirteen-year-old Celeste begins a campaign to lose weight in order to make sure she does not win the Miss HuskeyPeach modeling challenge, in which her mother and aunt have entered her--against her wishes.
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