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Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 500L
Language
English
Description
Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them all financially could leave them all bearing his responsibilities...
2) Stormchaser
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 2
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission to collect the powerful stromphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.
Author
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Future rock star, or friendless misfit? That's no choice at all. Apple Yengko moved from the Philippines to Louisiana when she was little, and now that she is in middle school, she grapples with being different, with friends and backstabbers, and with following her dreams. Apple has always felt a little different from her classmates. Her mother still cooks Filipino foods, speaks a mix of English and Cebuano, and chastises Apple for becoming "too American."...
4) Crescendo
Author
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Nora Grey struggles to face the truth while coping with having a fallen angel boyfriend named Patch and unraveling the mystery surrounding her father's murder.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lawyer David Sloane is a desperate parent. His son Jake, still reeling from the loss of his mother in a brutal murder (BODILY HARM), has spiraled out of control. Sloane needs to reconnect with him -- needs to keep him out of jail. So when an old friend suggests a guys-only camping trip, Sloane accepts. Maybe if he and Jake get away they will find needed quality time. Bond. Catch a few fish. But the trip into the remote reaches of California's Gold...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Ellie Dante is desperate for something in her life to finally go right. Her father was a famous stage magician until he attempted an epic illusion on live TVand failed. Now Ellie lives with her dad in a beat-up RV, attending high school online and performing with him at birthday parties and bars across the Midwest to make ends meet. But when the gigs dry up, their insurance lapses, leaving Dads heart condition unchecked and forcing...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Sana Kiyohara has too many secrets. Some are small, like how it bothers her when her friends don't invite her to parties. Some are big, like that fact that her father may be having an affair. And then there's the one that she can barely even admit to herself, the one about how she might have a crush on her best friend. When Sana and her family move to California she begins to wonder if it's finally time to be honest. Especially after...
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
456 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Nix confronts a terrible choice about her relationship with best friend and thief Kashmir when she learns that she is destined to lose the person she most loves.
Nix has finally taken the helm of her father's time-traveling ship. Her future lies bright before her--until she learns she is destined to lose Kashmir, her best friend and a thief. She sails her crew to a mythical utopia to meet another Navigator who promises to teach her...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's all Ryden's fault. If he hadn't gotten Meg pregnant, she would have never stopped her chemo treatments and would still be alive. Instead he's failing fatherhood one dirty diaper at a time. And it's not light he's had time to grieve while struggling to care for their infant daughter, start his senior year, and earn the soccer scholarship he needs to go to college. The one person who makes Ryden feel like his old self is Joni. She's fun and energetic--and...
14) Buckskin bandit
Author
Series
Winnie the horse gentler volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winnie Willis has already answered eight horse e-mails for the Pet Help Line. Now she's stumped. She can't think of antyhing to tell someone whose biggest problem is that her parents care too much about her life. After all, Winnie's dad has been so tied up lately with his inventions and his "friend", Madeline, that they've barely talked. When a buckskin disappears from the run-down Happy Trails stable, Winnie and friend Kaylee investigate--and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of her father, Zoe, escaping from life, loses herself in a dream scape until a chance encounter at a used record store opens up a portal to the world of the restless dead, forcing her to decide just how far she is willing to go to see her father again.
17) Slam
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically.
18) Girl gone viral
Author
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"For seventeen-year-old Opal Hopper, code is magic. She can build entire worlds from scratch--shimmering lakes, Mars craters, any virtual experience her heart desires. But she can't code her dad back into her life. When he disappeared after her tenth birthday, leaving only a cryptic note, Opal tried desperately to find him. And when he never turned up, she enrolled at a boarding school for technical prodigies and tried to forget. Until now. Because...
Author
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
In 1945, thirteen-year-old Levi Battle travels to find the father he has not seen in three years, going from Chicago to segregated North Carolina and finally to Pendleton, Oregon, where he learns that his father's unit, the all-black 555th paratrooper battalion, will never see combat but finally has a mission. Includes historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alejandra Kim doesn't feel like she belongs anywhere. At her wealthy Manhattan high school, her super Spanish name and super Korean face do not compute to her mostly white 'woke' classmates and teachers. In her Jackson Heights neighborhood, she's not Latinx enough. Even at home, Ale feels unwelcome. And things at home have only gotten worse since Papi's body was discovered on the subway tracks. Ale wants nothing more than to escape the city for the...