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1) Gossamer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"--
5) Bruiser
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Brontë befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.
9) Stick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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Thirteen-year-old Stark "Stick" McClellan's brother has always defended him against those who tease him for his thinness and facial deformity, so when Bosten, having admitted he is gay, must leave home and their abusive parents, Stick sets out to find him.
10) I am here now
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Maisie's first day of High school should be exciting, but all she wants is to escape. Her world is lonely and chaotic, with an abusive mother and a father who’s rarely there to help. So when Maisie, who finds refuge in her art, meets the spirited Rachel and her mother, a painter, she catches a glimpse of a very different world―one full of life, creativity, and love―and latches on. But as she discovers her strengths through Rachel’s family,...
11) Forged by fire
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Series
Hazelwood High trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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Teenage Gerald, who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, faces the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved. When Gerald was a child he was fascinated by fire. But fire is dangerous and powerful, and tragedy strikes. His substance-addicted mother is taken from him. Then he loses the loving generosity of a favorite aunt. A brutal stepfather with a flaming temper and an evil secret...
12) A list of cages
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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When Adam Blake lands the best elective ever in his senior year, serving as an aide to the school psychologist, he thinks he's got it made. Sure, it means a lot of sitting around, which isn't easy for a guy with ADHD, but he can't complain, since he gets to spend the period texting all his friends. Then the doctor asks him to track down the troubled freshman who keeps dodging her, and Adam discovers that the boy is Julian -- the foster brother he...
13) Iqbal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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A fictionalized account of the Pakistani child who escaped from bondage in a carpet factory and went on to help liberate other children like him before being gunned down at the age of thirteen.
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Summerhill secrets volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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After being beaten by her father, Lissa, an eighth grade classmate, comes to Merry's house in the middle of the night, and Merry asks God and the family of her Amish friend, Rachel, to help her protect Lissa.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 117
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
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Claudia realizes that the children she is baby-sitting are in serious trouble when their father's temper gets out of hand.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Minutes after the principal of Opportunity High School in Alabama finishes her speech welcoming the student body to a new semester, they discover that the auditorium doors will not open and someone starts shooting as four teens, each with a personal reason to fear the shooter, tells the tale from separate perspectives.
19) Split
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
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Sixteen-year-old Jace Witherspoon arrives at the doorstep of his estranged brother, Christian, with a broken face, $3.84, and a secret. He wants to make a fresh start, but the realities of his old life keep pulling him back; Mom is still trapped with his dad, the abuser. And Jace's ex-girlfriend is sitting on a secret just waiting to explode. After you decide to leave, after you make the split--how do you make a life?
20) What Jamie Saw
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
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Having fled to a family friend's hillside trailer after his mother's boyfriend tried to throw his baby sister against a wall, nine-year-old Jamie finds himself living an existence full of uncertainty and fear.