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"From the award-winning author of For Today I Am a Boy, a gripping and deeply felt novel about a group of young girls at a remote camp--and the night that changes everything and will shape their lives for decades to come A group of young girls descend on Camp Forevermore, a sleepaway camp in the Pacific Northwest, where their days are filled with swimming lessons, friendship bracelets, and camp songs by the fire. Filled with excitement and nervous...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When young Halli Sveinsson plays a trick on Ragnor of the House of Hakonsson, he sets in motion a chain of events that will forever alter his destiny, forcing him to leave home and go on a hero's quest where he encounters highway robbers, terrifying monsters, and a girl who may finally be his match.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"There's nothing Kate loves more than being around horses. But her best friend is allergic to them, so Kate has to take riding lessons without her. Kate's forced to navigate some of life's hardships--like the mean girls at the stable who tease her and her body insecurities--all on her own. To make matters worse, Kate is continually falling off her horse. To Kate, her tween years feel like one unfair punishment after another. Can she get over it all...
Author
Language
English
Description
During the summer in the 1960s that he turns thirteen, a brilliant boy from a poor family develops an unlikely friendship with the Jewish jeweler in town; has his first romance; begins to think, as do most people in their Southern town, that his older brother murdered a popular boy from down the street; and distances himself from his father.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Livvy and Jayden are the stars of their school's robotics team. Livvy is especially enthusiastic because her own mother works in a robotics lab and experiments with Artificial Intelligence. To impress her mom, Livvy and Jayden build a robot. Desperate to win, Livvy and Jayden "borrow" an Artificial Intelligence module.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little boy who helps during the construction of a red barn on his family's land recalls his life as he and the barn grow older together.
Author
Publisher
Random House Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A luminous coming of age story about a fiercely lonely young woman's quest to uncover the truth behind her mother's disappearance.
Born in a carnival trailer, Leah Fern begins her life as the "The Youngest and Very Best Fortuneteller in the World," taking strangers' hands and feeling the depths of their emotions. Her mother Jeannie Starr is a captivating magician, but not always an attentive mother, and when Leah is six, Jeannie upends their carnival...
Author
Publisher
M.: Enas
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Эта книга, как и многие произведения Галины Щербаковой, – о периоде взросления, чрезвычайно важном этапе в жизни каждого человека. Когда все одноклассники вытянулись и возмужали, Мишка все еще оставался болезненным щуплым очкариком. И вдруг за одно...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
As sixty-year-old John Gregory reflects on the past, he reveals how the world of ghosts, ghasts, witches, and boggarts was exposed to him and he later became the Spook, even though his first intention had been to join the priesthood.
Author
Series
Harry Potter (Original series) volume 7
Language
English
Description
At a time when the forces of evil seem to be gaining the upper hand, Harry comes of age in the wizarding world, and must take on and defeat Voldemort--or be killed himself.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When her longtime--and long-distance-- crush, Ada, needs her help reuniting her grandmother with her own long-lost pen pal (and maybe love?), Elsie finds her plans igniting a summer of repairing broken bonds and wonders if she, too, can recover the things she's lost.
Author
Series
Singh sisters volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The four teen Singh sisters navigate romance, coming of age, and chasing their dreams over the course of one windy November day"--
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
While preparing for her bat mitzvah--and trying to make sense of her own life--Zippy discovers she has magical abilities when she conjures up a beautiful girl with no memory and wings like an angel to whom she is connected.
18) Lolo's light
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"This is a truth about growing up: Once in your life, sometime after your first memory...something is going to happen to you that doesn't happen to anyone else...For Millie, it's something really sad. Lolo, her neighbors' infant daughter, dies unexpectedly, suddenly, inexplicably, on the night Millie babysits. It's not Millie's fault. There's nothing she could have done. And there's nothing she can do now"--
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarah writes letters to her hero, To Kill a Mockingbird's Atticus Finch, for help understanding her mentally ill mother, her first real crush, and life in her small Texas town, all in the course of one momentous summer.
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Language
English
Description
"A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca Makkai. In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic...
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