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Author
Language
English
Description
Her life upended when her husband revealed a darker side, Olivia MacAfee and her teenage son Asher move back to her New Hampshire hometown for a new beginning until Asher is implicated in the death of his girlfriend and she realizes he’s hidden more than he’s shared with her.
5) 23 minutes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Witnessing a bank robbery gone awry, fifteen-year-old Zoe, a girl with the supernatural ability to jump back in time and repeat events with up to ten tries, attempts to stop the crime, but makes things worse with each successive effort.
7) Betty
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Born to a Cherokee father and white mother in the Appalachians of 1954, Betty endures poverty and violence in a wild natural refuge before she is forced to reckon with the historical influences that shaped dark family secrets.
9) Life before
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Looking forward to enjoying the summer and leaving for college with a clean slate, Xander is shattered by the public revelation of his family's secrets, which force him to assume a new identity and start over in a distant town where he struggles to stay alive.
10) Blood family
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A boy with an abusive father grows up and fears that he has the same potential for violence as his father has.
11) With teeth
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to create a picture-perfect queer family, Sammie Lucas, scared of her own son, must pick up the pieces when his hostility finally spills over into physical aggression, in this thought-provoking portrait on the limitations of marriage, parenthood and love.
12) The last place
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
P.I. Tess Monaghan dives into a book of unsolved cases and uncovers danger and possibly a serial killer, as she confronts her own demons and finds echoes of her own past that could lead to the truth about the murder of her former lover.
13) Vinyl moon
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After an incident, Angel finds herself in Brooklyn, far from her California home, where she finds solace and healing in a revolutionary literature course in which her classmates share their own stories of pain, joy and fortitude.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Nessa Garvey's sister Deena vanished without a trace in 2004. In all that time, Nessa has never once doubted what her instincts told her: her sister's ex-husband has gotten away with an unspeakable crime. Nessa's niece, Ruby, is raised by her father, the man Nessa suspects, in rural Vermont. Ruby learns how to hunt, how the plants and trees grow, how to avoid making her father angry. The one question she longs to ask is the one she knows she cannot...
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