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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A sixteen-year-old boy wrestling with depression and anxiety tries to cope by writing poems, reciting Walt Whitman, hugging trees, and figuring out why his sister has been kicked out of the house.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sword of the Lord Publishers
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Arty, is still struggling with bitterness over the death of his father, develops into a real cowboy. His mother reluctantly allows him to get his first gun when Marshal Bodie agrees to teach him how to handle it safely. Then a cattle-killing black cougar, named Phantom, returns to the territory; and Arty faces a situation that tests him as he's never been tested before.
Author
Series
Pokémon world championship volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Continuing to battle their way up through the ranks of the World Coronation Series tournament, Ash and his Pokémon face a rematch against a powerful Gym Leader and must emerge victorious to forge ahead."--
6) Old magic
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Author
Series
Finnegan Zwake mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Finnegan Zwake discovers a body in the basement of his parents' house, in a storage area behind the gold treasure from their last expedition, and missing from the storage space is a Mayan gold figure.
8) Benched
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Cody and his friends accept a challenge from a local gang to steal a park bench, their main concern is keeping themselves on the gang's good side. But Cody quickly learns that the theft is no harmless prank.
10) Hero
Author
Series
Hero (Shotz) volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Hero, a retired search-and-rescue dog, is not prepared for a stray puppy to come into his life. But when he and twelve-year-old Ben find Scout injured and afraid, the new addition leads them down an unexpected and dangerous path. When Scout goes missing, it's up to Hero to use his search-and-rescue skills to find Scout and bring him home." -- Provided by publisher.
11) Slither
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 11
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Slither lurks in woods and towns, hunting for human blood, but before he can feast on three lovely sisters, their dying father binds the monster to a bargain.
12) Full service
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1965, sixteen-year-old Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict religious upbringing is challenged by new people and experiences.
13) New kid
Author
Series
New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
"Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and...
14) Game changer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"All it takes is one hit on the football field, and suddenly Ash's life doesn't look quite the way he remembers it. Impossible though it seems, he's been hit into another dimension--and keeps on bouncing through worlds that are almost-but-not-really his own. The changes start small, but they quickly spiral out of control as Ash slides into universes where he has everything he's ever wanted, universes where society is stuck in the past...universes...
Author
Series
Brotherband chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Skandian outcasts Hal, Stig, and others do battle at sea against the Wolves and the Sharks, in the ultimate race across icy waters where not everyone thinks of the competition as play.
16) El soplon
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
Español
Description
After his best friend snitches on him, Josh must learn to control his anger.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When Kyle learns that his mother has been having an affair and his father has been living with the secret, his reality is altered. But Kyle's parents want him to keep this secret from the rest of the family until after what might be their last big summer reunion. Kyle feels the walls of his relationships closing in, and has to decide what his obligations are to everyone he cares for.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books—the weird one, the outsider—and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less...
19) Butter
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Unable to control his binge eating, a morbidly obese teenager nicknamed Butter decides to make live webcast of his last meal as he attempts to eat himself to death.
Series
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
�2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marty McFly test-drives his friend Doc's time machine and accidentally travels 30 years into the past, where he must locate a younger version of Doc and make sure that his parents fall in love.