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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.
6) Dogsong
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels assailed by the modernity of his life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
8) Monster
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
9) Restart
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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"Chase does not remember falling off the roof, in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids--trouble is, he really is not sure he likes the Chase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life?"--Provided by publisher.
10) Ruby the copycat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Ruby insists on copying Angela, until her teacher helps her discover her own creative resources.
11) Criss cross
Author
Series
Newbery medal book volume 2006
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Abby has always felt she could never measure up to her older sister Tess, but when Tess is left in a coma after a car accident, Abby's life is put on hold and she must find a way to bring Tess back, even if it means sacrificing a chance at happiness with the mysterious Eli.
13) Multiple choice
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Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Monica, a fourteen-year-old perfectionist and word game expert, tries to break free from all of the suffocating rules in her life by creating a game for living called Multiple Choice.
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Series
Doll people volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Annabelle and Tiffany, dolls who are best friends living in the Palmer house, have an adventure when they hide in Kate Palmer's backpack, are carried to school, mistakenly go to another house, and try to stop Princess Mimi, a doll who threatens all dollkind.
15) Before I fall
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Description
After she dies in a car crash, teenage Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.
17) Flipped
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years. You never forget your first love.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Description
A series of tragedies, including the death of her baby brother, her parent's divorce, her mother's nervous breakdown, and her own rape at the age of thirteen, leaves Dolores Price wounded both mentally and physically, but she miraculously finds the strength to give herself one more chance at life and love.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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"Harvey Cheyne, the pampered fifteen-year-old son of an American millionaire, is sailing to Europe when he falls overboard. Saved from drowning by a New England fishing schooner, he finds his rough new companions unimpressed by his wealth and shocked by his ignorance. He will have to prove his worth in the only way the captain and crew will accept: through the slow and arduous mastery of skills upon which their common survival depends."--Back cover....
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Series
Marvin Redpost volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After Casey Happleton tells him that if he kisses his elbow he will turn into a girl, nine-year-old Marvin experiments and finds himself very confused about his identity.