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61) Off the grid
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raised deep in the wildnerness by idealistic parents, Cody ends up alone and angry when he is forced to move into the city, and finds himself in trouble with the police.
Author
Series
Al Capone at Alcatraz volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
63) One square inch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
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.
64) Awake at dawn
Author
Series
Shadow Falls novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having settled in at Shadow Falls Camp, a training ground for vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural beings, sixteen-year-old Kylie Galen is eager to discover what her abilities might be, but an interfering ghost and a rogue vampire on a murdering rampage get in the way of her search.
65) Claws
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.
66) Slow way home
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Slow Way Home is a warm, witty, fresh, and innovative novel." - --Homer Hickam, author of October Sky
"Slow Way Home is a gem -- both gritty and heartwarming at once. A wonderful, emotional read." - --Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls
"Slow Way Home is a novel for the heart. It is pitch perfect and the character Brandon is going to linger in a lot of minds. The opening chapter is one of the most poignant and poweful I have ever read. This is...
Author
Series
Cupcake queen volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
While longing to return to life in New York City, thirteen-year-old Penny helps her mother and grandmother run a cupcake bakery in Hog's Hollow, tries to avoid the beastly popular girls, to be a good friend to quirky Tally, and to catch the eye of enigmatic Marcus.
69) Mary Wolf
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Mary tries to keep her family together as they aimlessly travel the country after her father's business fails and he starts to change.
70) Jasper Jones
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
In small-town Australia, teens Jasper and Charlie form an unlikely friendship when one asks the other to help him cover up a murder until they can prove who is responsible.
71) Sons of liberty
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When thirteen-year-old Rock helps his friend Liza run away from home, he wonders whether escaping from his own troubled family would be an act of patriotism or of treason.
72) Fallout
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
73) After Eli
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of his older brother, Daniel Anderson became engrossed in recording details about dead people, how they died, and whether their deaths mattered but he is eventually drawn back into interaction with the living.
74) Burned
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
Author
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Fourth grader Wren Jo Byrd questions lots of things--both little and big--when her parents decide to get a divorce, and learns a lot about the true meaning of family, home, and friendship"--
77) Pinned
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dealing with family problems, girls, and their own competitive natures, high school seniors Ivan Korske and Bobby Zane face each other in the final match of the New Jersey State Wrestling Championship.
78) I am a taxi
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living with his family in a prison in Bolivia due to his parents' convictions for drug trafficking, twelve-year-old Diego does his best to live a normal life, but when his mother receives additional fines, Diego risks everything to earn quick money.
79) Halfway normal
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old cancer survivor Norah struggles to fit in at middle school after two years of treatment, but she finds her voice with the help of new friend Griffin, who shares her love of mythology.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Kara is about to realize her dream of becoming a professional baker. Beautifully designed and piped, her cookies are masterpieces, but also her ticket out of rainy Seattle-if she wins the upcoming national baking competition and its scholarship prize to culinary school in California. Kara can no longer stand the home where her family lived, laughed, and ultimately imploded after her mean-spirited big sister Kellen died in a drowning...
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