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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Angel's self-absorbed mother leaves her and her younger brother with their poor great-grandmother, the eleven-year-old girl worries not only about her mother and brother, her imprisoned father, the frail old woman, but also about a mysterious man who begins sharing with her the wonder of the stars.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Intrigue. Suspense. Romance. Evil Schemers, Innocent Victims, and True Love. Is it a TV soap opera? Not exactly. it's what's happening to sixteen-year-old Sophie Olivette. Her father has announced that he wants out of his marriage because he's found a new true love. And what about Sophie's mother? She's so busy seeking her Inner Self, she doesn't seem to notice that the family is falling apart. As for Sophie's older sister, her anger adds drama but...
3) Faerie wars
Author
Series
Faerie Wars chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Troubled by family problems, Henry finds his life taking a whole new dimension when he and his friend, old Mr. Fogarty, become involved with Prince Pyrgus Malvae who has been sent from the faerie world in order to escape the treacherous Faeries of the Night.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When she agrees to meet with Jasmine as a peer counselor at their middle school, Antonia never dreams that this girl with the black lipstick and pierced eyebrow will end up helping her deal with the serious problems she faces at home and become a good friend.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Two years after she was raped, Ashley, now a high school junior and still struggling with everyday life, sees her family falling apart. Includes resources about sexualized violence and rape culture.
7) Scared stiff
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When their mother disappears, two brothers go to stay with a great uncle in a mobile home park next to an abandoned amusement park and begin a search which puts them in danger.
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Seven teens facing such problems as pregnancy, closeted homosexuality, and abuse each describe in poetic forms what caused them to leave home and where they found home again.
9) Surrender
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
As he is dying, a twenty-year-old man known as Gabriel recounts his troubled childhood and his strange relationship with a dangerous counterpart named Finnigan.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Joey tries to keep his life from degenerating into total chaos when his mother sends him to be home-schooled with a hostile blind girl, his divorced parents cannot stop fighting, and his grandmother is dying of emphysema.
12) Claws: a novel
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Jed and Laura, two popular Minnesota high school students, find their seemingly perfect lives suddenly in chaos when they discover that each has a parent who is having an affair with the other.
13) Cut
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.
15) Crank
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul - her life.
16) Endgame
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Gray Wilton, bullied at school and ridiculed by an unfeeling father for preferring drums to hunting, goes on a shooting rampage at his high school.
18) Slumming
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In their senior year of high school, three best friends, Nikki, Alicia, and Sam, attempt an "experiment" in which they each befriend a classmate they think needs attention and try to improve that person's life.
19) One square inch
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When their mother's behavior changes and she starts to neglect her children, seventh-grader Cooper and his little sister take refuge in Inchland, an imaginary country inspired by deeds to one square inch of land that their grandfather gave them.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jess O'Fines is resentful that she is expected to watch her baby niece in a Los Angeles hotel room while the rest of her dysfunctional family go off to a wedding rehearsal party -- but when Baby Ruby disappears, Jess is convinced she knows who kidnapped her and determined to get her back on her own, whatever the danger.