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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
There is a lot going on in his life that thirteen-year-old Tony Miglione does not really understand--like why his parents suddenly have money enough to buy a house on Long Island, why his mother has changed, why his rich friend Joel shoplifts, why he is obsessed with Joel's sixteen-year-old sister, and why he is having terrible stomach pains.
3) The crossing
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Thirteen-year-old Manny, a street kid fighting for survival in a Mexican border town, develops a strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed American soldier who decides to help him get across the border.
5) Hunger
Author
Series
Riders of the Apocalypse volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lisabeth has anorexia, and even turning into Famine--one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse--cannot keep her from feeling fat and worthless.
8) Cut
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.
10) Burn
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Bullied constantly during his freshman year in high school, Cameron's anger and isolation grows, leading to deadly consequences.
11) Without Tess
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lizzie Cohen recalls what it was like growing up with her imaginative but disturbed older sister Tess, and how she is striving to reclaim her own life since Tess died.
12) Dream of Night
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Told from their different points of view, twelve-year-old Shiloh, a troubled foster child, Dream of Night, an abused former racehorse, and Jess, a woman who cares for both, find healing by helping one another through their pain.
13) Smashed
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Maine high school senior Katie Martin is set to win a field hockey scholarship until her life is derailed by drinking, a car accident, and an angry classmate.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
p2006
Description
Taylor Markham is now a senior at the Jellicoe School, and has been made leader of the boarders. She is responsible for keeping the upper hand in the territory wars with the townies, and the cadets who camp on the edge of the school's property over summer. She has to keep her students safe and the territories enforced and to deal with Jonah Griggs, the leader of the cadets and someone she'd rather forget. But what she needs to do, more than anything,...