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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Imagine waking up to find that the world, around you - life as you know it - has changed in an instant. That's what happens to Whit Allgood and his sister, Wisty. They thought that they were just a couple of normal teenagers, until their rude awakening at the hands of a dozen armed police! Charged with being a wizard and a witch, accused of having incredible powers they never dreamed possible. The siblings find themselves the targets of an upstart...
22) We can be heroes
Author
Pub. Date
c2021.
Description
"After a girl is killed by her ex-boyfriend in a school shooting, her two best friends attempt to memorialize her in a town economically dependent on the shooter's family"--
25) One fat summer
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
An overweight fourteen-year-old boy experiences a turningpoint summer in which he learns to stand up for himself.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The Giver: Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. -- Gathering blue: Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians....
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Description
"Too often, the public abortion debate depicts the experience of ending a pregnancy in falsely simplistic terms. Anti-abortion activists falsely contend that abortion is always emotionally damaging for the pregnant person, while pro-choice activists focus on honoring bodily autonomy and personal conscience without always giving voice to the nuances of abortion itself. In particular, the pro-choice movement fails to acknowledge that some people experience...
28) Good different
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Seventh-grader Selah Godfrey knows that to be "normal" she has to keep her feelings tightly controlled when people are around, but after hitting a fellow student, she needs to figure out just what makes her different--and why that is ok. Told in verse.
29) Bannerless
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Decades after economic and environmental collapse destroys much of civilization in the United States, the Coast Road region isn't just surviving but thriving by some accounts, building something new on the ruins of what came before. A culture of population control has developed in which people, organized into households, must earn the children they bear by proving they can take care of them and are awarded symbolic banners to demonstrate this privilege....
Author
Series
Maddie and Mabel volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"When Mabel has a big idea and Maddie faces a big challenge, the sisters know they'll succeed together. But how long will it take? Who gets to decide? If you don't get it the first time, how many times do you try again? From a risky big idea to learning to ride a bike, the sisters are there for each other through failures and frustration, together for the wait as well as the reward"- -Back cover.
31) How we ricochet
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Betty, her sister and mother were all shopping at the mall when the shooting happened -- and although they all survived, none of them would be the same after. Betty watches her mother throw herself into activism and away from her family, while her outgoing sister becomes a shadow of her former self. Desperate for answers, Betty finds herself reaching out to the shooter's brother, but all it does is reveal that nothing in life is simple to understand....
32) Under pressure
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Elise comes from a long line of college athletes. More than anything else, she wants to wear the University of North Carolina uniform and play for the college where her parents went. It's a lot of pressure, but if she works hard, she just might make it. At least that's what Elise thinks before she notices that some of her teammates are outplaying her. And a UNC scout is visiting in a few weeks. That's where the pills come in. Taking "performance...
Author
Series
My dragon books volume 30
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Told in rhyming text, this story explains how you can teach your pet dragon to limit his screen time if he's always using a smart phone, tablet, or computer.
34) Skinny
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
After undergoing gastric-bypass surgery, a self-loathing, obese teenaged girl loses weight and makes the brave decision to start participating in high school life, including pursuing her dream of becoming a singer and finding love.
Author
Series
Awesome Dawson volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Dawson is happy whenever he gets to go first, see first, and be first. But he hates having to wait his turn. When he isn’t first, he cries, complains, and loses all self-control. If Dawson really wants to be awesome, the whining and the waterworks must stop. But is that enough to prove his awesomeness, or does he need to show a bit more patience, fairness, and empathy too? With playful rhymes and illustrations, "Awesome Dawson, It’s NOT Your Turn!"...
Author
Series
Way of the warrior kid volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Marc hopes that his Uncle Jake can help him turn around his terrible summer, which he has to spend at camp with Nathan James, who is mean and annoying, while longing for a fancy new bike his parents will not buy him.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
A rising by the pro-gun lobby brings the government to its knees. The story begins when Henry Bowman, a geologist in Iowa fires on federal agents, thinking they are terrorists. The conflict escalates, agents and congressmen die, and to bring peace the president agrees to repeal anti-gun laws and pardon the rebels.
39) TMI
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Fifteen-year-old Becca has the habit of revealing too much personal information about herself and her friends, but when her boyfriend breaks up with her and she vows to stop "oversharing," she does not realize that her blog postings are not nearly as anonymous as she thought.
40) Pretty face
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
That's what I am. A funny girl. A friend. Nobody's girlfriend. The girl with the pretty face. Hayley wishes she could love living in Santa Monica, blocks from the beach, where every day-and everybody-is beautiful and sunny. But she just doesn't fit in with all the blond, super skinny Southern California girls who have their plastic surgeons on speed dial. Hayley is smart and witty and has such a pretty . . . face. Translation: Don't even think about...