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Author
Series
Royal City (2017) volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Patrick Pike, a fading literary star who reluctantly returns to the once-thriving factory town where he grew up, is quickly drawn back into the dramas of his two adult siblings, his overbearing mother, and he brow-beaten father, all of whom are still haunted by different versions of his youngest brother, Tommy, who drowned decades ago.
Author
Series
Royal City (2017) volume 3
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
When a new member of the family arrives in the fading industrial town of Royal City looking for answers, the past and present all come together, and the Pike family must face the truths about their youngest brother's death decades earlier.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Set in a small southern town in 1964, fourteen-year-old Lily, haunted by the death of her mother, leaves home to escape her cruel father to live with their African American housekeeper and the Boatwright sisters.
Author
Series
Royal City (2017) volume 2
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Charts the lives, loves, and losses of a troubled family and a vanishing factory town across three decades.
87) The glass castle
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A coming-of-age story of a girl living in a dysfunctional family.
Author
Series
Umbrella Academy volume 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
Milwaukee, OR :
Language
English
Description
As six superheroes unite to attend their adopted father's funeral, they must deal with their individual problems and team up to save the world from different foes.
90) Swing it, Sunny
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 2
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1970s Sunny Lewin is back, star of her personal show, facing the prospect of Middle School, and dealing with the problems of her somewhat dysfunctional family--in particular her older brother, Dale, who has been sent off to a military academy because of his delinquent behavior.
91) Pieces of us
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Four teenagers from two families--sisters Katie and Julie and brothers Alex and Kyle--meet every summer at a lakeside community in upstate New York, where they escape their everyday lives and hide disturbing secrets.
93) Hey, kiddo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shares the author's upbringing in a family grappling with addiction and how he used art to survive.
94) Come November
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Senior year at high school is going to be hard enough for Rooney Harris, desperate to get into a good college and away from her small town, but things get tougher when she ends up as the sole support for herself and her younger brother because of their mother's obsession with the Next World Society, a cult that believes they will be whisked away to a new world paradise on November 17.
95) The erratics
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Two sisters reckon with the convalescence and death of their outlandishly tyrannical mother and the care of their psychologically terrorized father, all relayed with dark humor and brutal honesty.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Carson Speier is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years--but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Middle schooler Liberty likes to make her own maps of the stars, in fact she is obsessed with them, especially since her family is falling apart; her parents are getting divorced, her nine-year-old sister will barely leave the house and carries a stuffed tiger at all times, her father is suffering from depression, but will not talk about it, and the brothers down the street, once friends, have turned into bullies--so when a tiny meteorite literally...
99) Stay: a novel
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Walking in the woods to escape the pain of his brother's Vietnam tour and complicated family troubles, 14-year-old Lucas bonds with a tragically haunted woman who he would prevent from leaving.
100) Like Vanessa
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but the odds are against her until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
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