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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,...
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Series
Messenger of Fear volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The Messenger of Fear brings justice to those who do wrong, creating frightening games where the players earn their redemption--or lose their sanity--and somehow Mara, fifteen, has become his apprentice.
5) You go first
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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Charlotte, twelve, and Ben, eleven, are highly-skilled competitors at online Scrabble and that connection helps both as they face family issues and the turmoil of middle school.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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"One cold fall day, high school junior Liz Emerson steers her car into a tree. This haunting and heartbreaking story is told by a surprising and unexpected narrator and unfolds in nonlinear flashbacks even as Liz's friends, foes, and family gather at the hospital and Liz clings to life"--
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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One morning before school, some girl tells Piddy Sanchez that Yaqui Delgado hates her and wants to kick her ass. Piddy doesn't even know who Yaqui is, never mind what she's done to piss her off. Word is that Yaqui thinks Piddy is stuck-up, shakes her stuff when she walks, and isn't Latin enough with her white skin, good grades, and no accent. And Yaqui isn't kidding around, so Piddy better watch her back. At first Piddy is more concerned with trying...
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Series
Horrible Harry volume 31
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Nearly every kid in Room 3B is trying to get picked for the South School Safety Patrol Squad--especially Harry. Harry wants a star badge just like his grandpa's, so he works extra hard to be the perfect student: hanging up his jacket neatly, organizing the crayons in rainbow order, and--his favorite part--cleaning up sticky noodles off the floor after lunch. But Doug thinks someone is taking the power of Safety Patrol too far, maybe even using it...
14) Gutless
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"With both good speed and good hands, wide receiver Brock Ripley should be a natural for the varsity team, but he shies from physical contact. When his issues get him cut from varsity, he also loses his friendship with star quarterback Hunter Gates. Now a target for bullying, Brock struggles to overcome his fears and discover that, in his own way, he is brave enough"--
Author
Series
TBH volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Told entirely in text messages, emails, and notes, best friends Prianka, Gabby, and Cecily find their friendship tested by busily planning a spring fair, bullying, and boys.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Ella and Maddy Lawton are identical twins. Ella has spent her high school years living in popular Maddy's shadows, but she has never been envious of Maddy. In fact, she's chosen the quiet, safe confines of her sketchbook over the constant battle for attention that has defined Maddy's world. When--after a heated argument--Maddy and Ella get into a tragic accident that leaves her sister dead, Ella wakes up in the hospital surrounded by loved ones who...
18) Fat Angie
Author
Series
Fat Angie volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Fat Angie's sister was captured in Iraq, she's the resident laughingstock at school, and her therapist tells her to count instead of eat. Can a daring new girl in her life really change anything?
19) All in pieces
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"A girl struggles to take care of her younger brother with special needs while confronting her own anger issues"--