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1) Tall story
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Bernardo, who is eight feet tall and has a condition called Gigantism, leaves the Philipines to live with his mother's family in London, much to the delight of his thirteen-year-old half sister Andi, a passionate basketball player.
2) I'm not her
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When popular, sporty sister, Kristina, is diagnosed with cancer, her younger, brainy sister, Tess, is thrown into new roles as she becomes the center of the popular crowd and must be the strong one in her family.
3) Perfect
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following the death of her father, a thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sydney's charismatic older brother, Peyton, has always been the center of attention in the family but when he is sent to jail, Sydney struggles to find her place at home and the world until she meets the Chathams, including gentle, protective Mac, who makes her feel seen for the first time.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Mallory learns that her boyfriend, Jeremy, is cheating on her with his cyber "wife," she rebels against technology by following her grandmother's list of goals from 1962, with help from her younger sister, Ginnie.
6) The gift
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After escaping imprisonment by the totalitarian regime known as the New Order, siblings Wisty and Whit Allgood, who possess magical powers, establish themselves as leaders of the Resistance, a hidden community of teenagers like themselves, hunted by the state and determined to defy its ban on the arts, magic, and all other forms of creativity.
Author
Series
DC icons volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
Determined to prove herself to her legendary warrior sisters, Diana throws away her chance at glory and breaks Amazon law, risking exile, to save a mere mortal who is unwittingly fated to bring about an age of bloodshed and misery.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old TJ tries to cope with the emotional upheaval in her life when the father who kidnapped her ten years earlier and raised her under a different identity is injured, and she goes to visit her recently-discovered twin sister, mother, and future stepfather.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Mathilda (Tilly), fourteen, and Ruth Anne (Roo), sixteen, are sisters and best friends in Connecticut, but when Roo crashes her car while texting she is confined to a hospital bed with "locked-in syndrome," aware of her surroundings, but apparently comatose--and Tilly must find a way to communicate with her sister, while dealing with her own sense of guilt.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible in her family, where grumpy eighteen-year-old Sarah is working at the family restaurant, fourteen-year-old Holden is struggling with school bullies and his emerging homosexuality, and adorable, three-year-old Charlie is always the center of attention, and when tragedy strikes, the fragile bond holding the family together is stretched almost to the breaking point.
11) Hourglass
Author
Series
Hourglass novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emerson uses her power to manipulate time to help Michael, a consultant hired by her brother, to prevent a murder that happened six months ago while simultaneously navigating their undeniable attraction to one another.
13) Darkwood
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A clever and fearless orphan endures increasing danger while trying to escape from greedy, lawless men and elude the terrifying "kinderstalks"--animals who steal children--before discovering her true destiny.
14) Sweet venom
Author
Series
Medusa girls volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
As monsters walk the streets of San Francisco, unseen by humans, three teenaged descendants of Medusa, the once-beautiful gorgon maligned in Greek mythology, must reunite and embrace their fates.
15) The sky inside
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After the disappearance of his sister, Cassie, and other children who ask questions about their carefully choreographed life in a domed suburb cut off from the outside world, Martin and his intelligent dog investigate.
16) Ingo
Author
Series
Ingo chronicles volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As they search for their missing father near their Cornwall home, Sapphy and her brother Conor learn about their family's connection to the domains of air and of water.
17) Triskellion
Author
Series
Triskellion volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old twins Adam and Rachel go to visit their grandmother in an unwelcoming and ancient English village, they realize that there is something unnatural about it and are swept up in an archaeological mystery.
18) The burning
Author
Series
Triskellion volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old twins Adam and Rachel, pursued by both their former "Hope Project" benefactors and followers of a zombie-like figure, flee London for Paris, Seville, and finally Morocco, where they unearth an ancient secret more startling than the first.
19) All summer long
Author
Series
Eagle Rock trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When her best friend, Austin, goes to soccer camp over the summer, thirteen-year-old Bina finds an unlikely companion in Austin's older sister, Charlie.
20) Sweet legacy
Author
Series
Medusa girls volume 3
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Now united, the three descendants of Medusa must find the gate between the human and monster world to achieve their destiny.
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