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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
To save her father, 12-year-old Henna, a gifted gardener, attends St. Basil’s Conservatory, a botanical boarding school rumored to house a legendary, long-extinct plant with miraculous healing powers, and while searching for the seeds, Henna learns to flourish with a little help from her newfound friends.
Author
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago. But when she gets a letter from her biological father--a man she hoped would stay behind bars for the rest of his life--Lou immediately knows that she cannot meet him, no matter how much he insists. While King's friendship makes Lou...
303) Coming up short
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Bea is the star short stop on her softball team, which is going to the league championship, but her world has just been turned upside down by the news that her father has been suspended from his law practice because he used some of his clients' money to pay bills; worse the news has been spread by another lawyer online, and that lawyer happens to be the father of Bea's almost boyfriend, Xander; now her fielding skills are slipping,...
304) Love and vandalism
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Painting graffiti lions all over her town, anonymous artist Rory is caught by a former vandal who promises not to turn her in if she tells him about her art.
305) Whippoorwill
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In rural New Hampshire, sixteen-year-old Clair Taylor and her neighbor, eighteen-year-old Danny Stewart, fall into an unlikely relationship as they work together to save Wally, a loveable but mistreated dog kept chained in a junk-filled yard by Danny's cruel father.
306) Boomi's boombox
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Boomi accidentally travels back in time to 1986 England, where she meets her late father as a child, changing her life forever.
Author
Series
Maya and the rising dark volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Maya and the godlings must return to the sinister world of The Dark to retrieve the one thing keeping the veil between the worlds from crumbling: her father's soul.
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An Emmy Award-winning CNN correspondent recounts his journey from a half-hearted couch potato to an ultra-marathon runner at the side of his teenaged daughter, describing his training and participation in ambitious races and how his effort strengthened family bonds.
311) Hurricane Child
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Lady Evelyn Herbert is the daughter of the Earl of Carnarvon. Popular and pretty, she seems destined for a prestigious marriage, but she has other ideas. She leaves behind the world of society balls and chaperones to travel to the Egyptian desert, where she works alongside her father and Howard Carter in the hunt for an undisturbed tomb. In November 1922, their dreams came true when they discover the burial place of Tutankhamun, and she is the first...
313) One for all
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1655 sixteen-year-old Tania is the daughter of a retired musketeer, but she is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls; when her father is murdered she finds that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Académie des Mariées in Paris, which, it turns out, is less a school for would-be wives, than a fencing academy for girls--and so Tania begins her training to be a new kind of musketeer, and to...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
During World War II, Sophia Alexander, after her mother dies and her father is sent to a concentration camp, becomes increasingly involved in the resistance and while working with the convent nuns, the Sisters of Mercy she risks everything to help those in need—no matter what the cost.
315) Overturned
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Nikki Tate's father has been on death row for killing his best friend in a gambling dispute, but he has always maintained his innocence, and now his conviction has been overturned and he is back at the casino, and is determined to find the real killer, and Nikki is inevitably drawn into his dangerous search for the truth.
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