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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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Sent to live with his uncle after a violent confrontation with his stepfather, sixteen-year-old Travis, an aspiring writer, finds life in a small Oklahoma town confining until he meets an eighteen-year-old horse trainer named Casey.
2) What hearts
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
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After his mother divorces his father and remarries, Asa's sharp intellect and capacity for forgiveness help him deal with the instabilities of his new world.
3) Heartbeat
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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Struggling with grief over a mother who is on life support as well as her slipping grades and her anger with her stepfather, Emma forges an uncharacteristic connection with a local bad boy, Caleb, who makes her heart feel alive again.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
6) Shadows
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
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"Magic is illegal in Newworld, so Maggie struggles to explain the strange shadows--that only she can see--that seem to accompany her new stepfather everywhere"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 81
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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"When Kristy's stepfather Watson has a heart attack, Kristy's really scared. Fortunately, Watson's going to be fine. But he has some surprising news for Kristy's family: following his doctor's orders, Watson's going to reduce the stress in his life -- by quitting his job and becoming Mr. Mom!... Then Kristy's grandmother Nannie moves out, a flu bug moves in, and Karen and Andrew, Watson's kids, arrive for their month at the 'big house.' Could this...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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Charli's impulsive uncle, Will Crandall, decides to buy the town's abandoned, possibly haunted castle and fix it up as a bed-and-breakfast, but Charli and Sophia, a clairvoyant orphan who has come to stay with the Crandall family, know his plan is somehow dangerous.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
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"Lily Odilon, local wild child from a middle-of-nowhere town, has vanished after spending the night with her boyfriend, new kid Albert Morales. Suspected in her disappearance, Albert sets out with Lily's prickly younger sister, Olivia, to discover what really happened to Lily, and to keep the promise he made to her late one night"--From publisher description.
10) The light jar
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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Nate and his mother are escaping from his emotionally abusive step-father, Gary, but the run-down and abandoned cottage in the woods that his mother takes them to does not seem like much of a refuge; but when his mother goes off to buy provisions and doesnot come back Nate is left alone (except for his imaginary friend Sam) and afraid--until a mysterious girl trying to solve the clues of a long-ago treasure hunt turns up.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Since her mother died, twelve-year-old Lily has struggled to care for her severely autistic half-brother, Adam, in their Miami home, but she is frustrated and angry because her oncologist step-father, Don, expects her to devote her time to Adam, and is unwilling to admit that Adam needs professional help--but when Adam bonds with a young dolphin with cancer Lily is confronted with another dilemma: her family or the dolphin's freedom.
14) Like Jake and me
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Pub. Date
[1984]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Alex feels that he does not have much in common with his stepfather Jake until a fuzzy spider brings them together.
15) Wild roses
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In Washington State, seventeen-year-old Cassie learns about the good and bad sides of both love and genius while living with her mother and brilliant, yet disturbed, violinist stepfather and falling in love with a gifted young musician.
16) Shock point
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Fifteen-year-old Cassie Streng is determined to expose her stepfather after learning that he is giving a dangerous experimental drug to his teenaged psychiatric patients, but he sends her to a boot camp for troubled teens in Mexico in order to keep her quiet.
17) Bird
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Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Devastated by the loss of a second father, thirteen-year-old Bird follows her stepfather from Cleveland to Alabama in hopes of convincing him to come home, and along the way helps two boys cope with their difficulties.
Author
Series
Lizzie Logan volume 3
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Lizzie's mother announces that she is going to have a baby, best friend Heather helps Lizzie deal with her fears that her stepfather will love the new baby more than he loves her.
19) Hands
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Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Twelve-year-old Trevor has an adult problem to deal with: how to protect himself, his sisters, and his mother from his abusive stepfather (currently in prison) and he thinks the way to do that is to take up boxing--although he would really rather draw.