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1) Blended
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.
3) Watercress
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
Author
Series
Mysteries of Middlefield series volume 1
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Thirteen-year-old Mary Beth Mullet and her twin brother, Johnny, discover that someone has been spending time in the old barn Mary Beth escapes to when she needs time to herself.
6) One moment
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Rising high school senior Maggie remembers little about the accidental death of her boyfriend, Joey, but as she slowly begins to recall that day at the gorge with their long-time friends, she realizes he was keeping some terrible secrets.
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When twelve-year old Rebecca Carter's father brings a Native American accused of murder into their 1812 Ohio settlement town, Rebecca, witnessing the town's reaction to the Indian, struggles with the idea that an innocent man may be convicted and sentenced to death.
9) Very rich
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Ten-year-old Rupert, from a very large, very poor family, accidently becomes part of an eccentric rich family's life beginning at Christmas, and soon sees that wealth is not everything.
10) Itch
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Ohio sixth-grader Isaac "Itch" Fitch strives to fit in, but everything seems to be going wrong, even before a school lunch trade sends his best friend, Sydney, to the hospital.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
The stress of hiding a horrific incident that she can neither remember nor completely forget leads sixteen-year-old Cassidy "Sid" Murphy to become alienated from her friends, obsess about weight loss, and draw close to Corey "The Living Stoner" Livingston.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Fox Street means everything to Mo Wren, who is nearly eleven, and so she is very upset when a land developer offers to buy her father's house, especially since she has not yet found the fox she is sure lives in the nearby ravine.
14) Mothman's curse
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"When Josie and her brother Fox discover the truth behind the legend of the Mothman, they must stop a disaster in order to break the curse that has been afflicting their town"--
15) Grass angel
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Rather than go to a spiritual retreat in Oregon with her mother and brother, eleven-year-old Frances insists on staying in Ohio with her odd aunt, but she soon begins to worry that the retreat may really be a cult.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In the wake of his father's sudden death, twelve-year-old Finn feels he is becoming invisible as his hair and skin become whiter by the day, and so he writes and illustrates a book to try to understand what is happening and to hold on to himself and his father.