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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
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Resolving to become the world's greatest stand-up comedian despite less-than-funny challenges in his life, wheelchair-bound middle school student Jamie Grimm endures bullying from his mean-spirited cousin and hopes he will be fairly judged when he enters a local comedy contest.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
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Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.
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Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
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Taking readers through the minds of girls trying to define themselves while struggling to remain relevant to the boys in their lives, this Coretta Scott King Honor book offers a complex, always on-point exposition of black youth resolving to find self-worth.
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Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
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"Life in middle school is finally starting to seem bearable-until Rafe spots his grandmother standing on the free-meal line at the local soup kitchen. In order to help bring in more money, Rafe concocts a brilliant plan-a dog-walking business that soon turns into a huge money-making neighborhood empire"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars brilliantly explores the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 8
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Mason Buttle is the biggest, sweatiest kid in his grade, and everyone knows he can barely read or write. But those troubles don't compare with grief. Fifteen months ago, Mason's best friend, Benny Kilmartin, turned up dead in the Buttle family's orchard. An investigation drags on, and Mason, honest as the day is long, can't understand why Lieutenant Baird won't believe the story Mason has told about that day. Mason's new friend, tiny Calvin Chumsky,...
7) Nightingale
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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At seventeen, June Hardie is everything a young woman in 1951 shouldn't be, independent, rebellious, a dreamer. June longs to travel, to attend college and to write the dark science fiction stories that consume her waking hours. But her parents only care about making June a better young woman. Her mother grooms her to be a perfect little homemaker while her father pushes her to marry his business partner's domineering son. When June resists, her whole...
8) The poet X
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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THE POET X - a stunning New York Times bestseller with a powerful and unforgettable YA voice. Perfect for fans of Tomi Adeyemi's The Children of Blood and Bone, Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give and Sarah Crossan's One. Xiomara has always kept her words to herself. When it comes to standing her ground in her Harlem neighbourhood, she lets her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But X has secrets - her feelings for a boy in her bio class, and the...
10) Tenmile
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Pub. Date
2022.
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A thirteen-year-old girl living in an 1880 Colorado gold-mining town witnesses the hardships of her community as she assists her father, the town doctor.
11) Ramona's world
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Ramona Quimby volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
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Follows the adventures of nine-year-old Ramona at home with big sister Beezus and baby sister Roberta and at school, in fourth grade, in Mrs. Meacham's class.
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Dead is-- (Spin-off) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
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High school freshman Jessica Walsh has yet another problem to solve in her capacity of Nightshade, California's virago woman warrior--some supernatural pied piper seems to be using her boyfriend and his band, Side Effects May Vary, and the other bands in Nightshade's Battle of the Bands to perform illegal and fatal things throughout town.
13) Smile
Author
Series
Smile volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with family, friends, boys and dental drama.
An autobiography in graphic novel format describes how the author lost two of her front teeth in an accident when she was twelve, and her subsequent struggles with various corrective dental techniques throughout adolescence....
14) The list
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Emily and seven other high-school girls struggle with the way they see themselves and the way others see them after a list ranking the prettiest and ugliest girls, is posted. The plot contains profanity and sexual situations.
15) Cracked
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Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When Bull Mastrick and Victor Konig wind up in the same psychiatric ward at age sixteen, each recalls and relates in group therapy the bullying relationship they have had since kindergarten, but also facts about themselves and their families that reveal they have much in common.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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Seventh-grader Hercules Beal has to figure out how to fulfill his teacher's assignment of performing the Twelve Labors of Hercules in real life, and discovers important things about friendship, community, and himself along the way.
17) Bluefish
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
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Everything changes for thirteen-year-old Travis, a new student who is trying to hide a learning disability, when he meets a remarkable teacher and a sassy classmate with her own secrets.
18) United we spy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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"Cammie Morgan and her friends finally know why the terrorist organization called the Circle of Cavan has been hunting her. Now the spy girls and Zach must track down the Circle's elite members to stop them before they implement a master plan that will change Cammie--and her country--forever"--
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Magic thief volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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Connwaer, the young thief-turned-wizard's apprentice, escapes from prison and follows the call of magic to the distant and mysterious Dragon Mountain on a quest to save Wellmet from Arhionvar, dread magic that can destroy the city.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Seventeen year-old dirt-bike-riding daredevil Arlo Santiago catches the eye of the U.S. military with his first-place ranking on a video game featuring drone warfare, and must reconcile the work they want him to do with the emotional scars he has suffered following a violent death in his family"--