Leslie Connor
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
An oversized youth with challenging learning disabilities is wrongly suspected of having a hand in his best friend's death, a situation that compels him to create an underground haven for himself and a bullied new friend.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When her best friend Frenchie, who is autistic and doesn’t talk, disappears after they encounter a rare piebald deer in the woods, Aurora feels that she’s to blame and does everything she can to find him.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Fans of Sarah Dessen will love this heartbreaking story about family, loss, and the joys and disappointments of first love.
Bettina Vasilis can hardly believe it when star basketball player Brady Cullen convinces her strict father to let them date. That summer, Bettina falls in love with Brady and the freedom that comes along with him. But when school starts up again, Brady unexpectedly changes for the worse. Unable to give up on her first
...7) Crunch
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
ALA Schneider Family Book Award winner Leslie Connor infuses her timely family stories with humor and hope. Fourteen-year-old Dewy Marriss never imagined America's gas pumps would dry up the same week he promised to manage his family's bicycle shop. Suddenly everyone wants a bike, and nobody wants to wait. With his parents stranded far from home, Dewey tries to keep up with his overwhelming responsibilities. "Characters are colorful but believable,...