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201) Troublemakers
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
When east London is targeted by a bomber, fifteen-year-old Alena, raised by her half-brother and his boyfriend, becomes increasingly rebellious and insistent on learning about her long-dead activist mother.
202) Jellicoe Road
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Appears on list
Description
Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
204) The shadow society
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Sixteen-year-old Darcy Jones knows little about her past except that she was abandoned outside a Chicago firehouse at age five, but when the mysterious Conn arrives at her high school she begins to discover things about her past that she is not sure she likes.
209) The witch's glass
Author
Series
League of Beastly Dreadfuls volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Members of The League of Beastly Dreadfuls venture to the most forbidden back alleys of Nowhere Special seeking an unbreakable glass cabinet that holds the key to Anastasia's missing grandfather.
Author
Series
Curiosity House volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Pippa, Sam, Thomas, and Max are happy to be out of harms way now that the notorious villain Nicholas Rattigan is halfway across the country in Chicago. But unfortunately their home, Dumfreyss Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders, is in danger of closing its doors forever. But their troubles only get worse. The four friends are shocked when their beloved friend, famous sculptor Siegfried Eckleberger, is murdered. As they investigate, they find...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Witches have been banned from Arrett for years. Which is why Milly has tried to ignore the tingling light that appears in her palm anytime she conjures up a wish. She has too many responsibilities as the oldest girl at St. George's Orphanage to get caught up in magicks. Sweet, quirky Cilla, though, has always longed for that power, even if it could be dangerous for her. Milly has always kept an eye out for her, but then, in a case of mistaken identity,...
213) Scarlet ibis
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"When a fire leaves twelve-year-old Scarlet in a different foster home than her autistic little brother, she does everything she can to find her way back to him--even if it means sacrificing a better life for herself"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
From the time she was a crippled baby, left in a church, Maggie's life has never been easy but when she glimpses her destiny in a magic mirror, she goes off on a quest to find her father and, along the way, finds happiness, as well.
216) Operation Oleander
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Seventh-grader Jess and her friends establish the Order of the Oleander to collect supplies for an orphanage in Kabul, Afghanistan, where two of their parents are deployed, but when disaster strikes and many blame the Order, Jess must find a way to go on.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Pen, Hex, Ash, Ez, and Venice are living on hard work, companionship, and dreams in the pink house by the sea until a foreboding ship arrives and all start having strange visions of destruction and violence then, trance-like, they head for the ship and their new battles, with Pen using Virgil's epic Aeneid as her guide.
Author
Series
The Inventors (Morgen) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Twelve-year-olds George, the very unlucky third Lord of Devonshire, and his neighbor, scientist Ada Byron, join forces against a nefarious group of criminals who steal the map to a priceless family heirloom.
219) Tentacle & wing
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Twelve-year-old Ada is a Chimera, one of a number of children born with human and animal DNA thanks to a genetic experiment gone wrong. When she is shipped off to a quarantined school for other kids like herself, she senses that the facility is keeping a secret, which, if discovered, could upend everything the world knows about how Chimeras came into being"--
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"It's 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe. Eleven-year-old Gusta's life, like the world around her, is about to change. Her father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has had to flee the country, and Gusta has been sent to live in an orphanage run by her grandmother. Nearsighted, snaggletoothed Gusta arrives in Springdale, Maine, lugging her one precious possession: a beloved old French horn, her...