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Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Ever since she can remember, seventeen-year-old Margot Nielsen has been living with her mother in a run-down, single-bedroom apartment where she has to follow a strange set of rules laid down by her mother, Jo. Longing to know of her past, Margot comes upon a family bible with a photograph and phone number, taking her on a journey to rural Nebraska where she discovers her grandmother Vera, living on the family homestead. Margot soon realizes the warm...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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"My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I'm allergic to the world. I don't leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla. But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He's tall, lean and wearing all black -- black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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When the scary, magical world in her grandmother's book of dark feminist fairy tales becomes real, seventeen-year-old Alice, partnered with Ellery, an obsessed fan of the fairy tales, must enter the world to rescue Alice's kidnapped mother.
7) The escape
Author
Series
Horses of the dawn volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Estrella is a filly, daughter of the lead mare, one of a shipment of horses bound for the new world, but when the ship is becalmed and the horses are dropped overboard to lighten the load, Estrella finds that it is up to her to lead the herd to land and safety.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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Publisher Annotation: Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga's role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge...
10) Strays Like Us
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
From the moment Fred (never Winifred!) spots a scruffy little mutt with sad eyes, she knows she's in big trouble. Toby's in bad shape, and Fred longs to rescue him from the old man with the mile-long mean streak who lives next door. But Margery -- the straight-talking woman who is fostering Fred -- says going over to their house is against the rules.
And since Fred will only be around until her mother comes to grips with her dependence, Fred can't...
12) Raybearer
Author
Series
Raybearer volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Tarisai has always longed for the warmth of a family. She was raised in isolation by a mysterious, often absent mother known only as The Lady. The Lady sends her to the capital of the global empire of Aritsar to compete with other children to be chosen as one of the Crown Prince’s Council of 11. If she’s picked, she’ll be joined with the other Council members through the Ray, a bond deeper than blood. That closeness is irresistible to Tarisai,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When the family's drugstore is failing, seventh-grader Lucy uses her problem solving talents to come up with solution that might resuscitate the business, along with helping the environment. When a local homecoming queen shows up at Lucy Desberg's family's drugstore with a beauty disaster that Lucy helps to fix, word gets out, and suddenly Lucy has a line of makeover customers for every school dance and bat mitzvah in Connecticut.
14) Saturday
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When all of their special Saturday plans go awry, Ava and her mother still find a way to appreciate one another and their time together
16) Everlasting Nora
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
After surviving a fire in which her father dies, Nora and her mother live in a cemetery, but when her mother disappears and a loan shark steals her savings, Nora finds support from her cemetery neighbors to earn some money and search for her mother.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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The Pickles are new to Midnight Gulch, Tennessee, a town which legend says was once magic--but Felicity is convinced the magic is still there, and with the help of her new friend, Jonah the Beedle, she hopes to bring the magic back.
19) This lullaby
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Raised by a mother who's had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician.
20) Away
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
A gentle tale told entirely through sticky notes between a mother and daughter as the girl's departure for her first summer camp draws near demonstrates how love can be found even in scribbled messages and other unlikely places.