Ellen Wittlinger
1) Hard love
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After starting to publish a zine in which he writes his secret feelings about his lonely life and his parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old John meets an unusual girl and begins to develop a healthier personality.
2) Sandpiper
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When The Walker, a mysterious boy who walks constantly, intervenes in an argument between Sandpiper and a boy she used to see, their lives become entwined in ways that change them both.
3) Razzle
Author
Pub. Date
2003, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
When his retired parents buy a group of tourist cabins on Cape Cod, fifteen-year-old Kenyon Baker's days are filled with repair work until he becomes friends with an eccentric girl and makes her the subject of a series of photographs.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Twelve-year-old Izzy's life just seems to get more and more complicated: she is upset by her father's new marriage, and a new baby on the way; she is expected to look out for her ten-year-old cousin, Oliver, who has moved in with her family since his mother committed suicide, because his father is depressed and having trouble coping; and now Ben, the rebellious sixteen-year-old son of Izzy's mother's boyfriend, is also living with them--but when Oliver's...
7) Zigzag
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
A high-school junior makes a trip with her aunt and two cousins, discovering places she did not know existed and strengths she did not know she had.
8) Parrotfish
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Grady, a transgendered high school student, yearns for acceptance by his classmates and family as he struggles to adjust to his new identity as a male.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In 1962, when her best friend Lowell begins to hang around new friends who think girls are losers, Juliet, a fearful fifth-grader, teams up with bold, brave Patsy who challenges the boys to a series of increasingly dangerous contests.
10) Blind faith
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
While coping with her grandmother's sudden death and her mother's resulting depression and fascination with a spiritualist church, whose ministers claim to communicate with the dead, fifteen-year-old Liz finds herself falling for a new neighbor whose mother is dying of cancer.