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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her.
9) Elsewhere
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live."
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Heaven trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.
11) How I live now
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 8
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To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land. "Every war has turning points and every person too." Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she's never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her...
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Antsy Bonano volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone.
13) Airborn
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.
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In 1962, Carols Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Cuba - exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by the revolution. The memories of Carlos's life in Havana, cut short when he was just eleven years old, are at the heart of this stunning, evocative, and unforgettable memoir.
15) Mud city
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Breadwinner series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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This final book in the trilogy begun in "The Breadwinner" and "Parvana's Journey" paints a devastating portrait of life in refugee camps and shows the resourcefulness of children who endure great suffering there.
16) The tale of Despereaux: being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.
17) Catalyst
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
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Eighteen-year-old Kate, who sometimes chafes at being a preacher's daughter, finds herself losing control in her senior year as she faces difficult neighbors, the possibility that she may not be accepted by the college of her choice, and an unexpected death.
18) Sold
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
19) Hoot
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
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Breadwinner series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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A war is raging in Afghanistan as a coalition of Western forces tries to oust the Taliban by bombing the country. Parvana's father has died, and her mother, sister and brother have gone to a faraway wedding. Parvana doesn't know where they are. She just knows she has to find them. And so, masquerading as a boy, she sets out across the desolate countryside that Afghanistan has become, where she meets other children who are strays from the war. This...