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1) Gossamer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
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.
2) The Watcher
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
As she sits watching a seemingly perfect family and a handsome lifeguard on the beach, a lonely, troubled girl projects herself into the fantasy lives she has created for them.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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Formats
Description
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.
4) Split
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
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?
5) Bruiser
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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"--
10) The lottery rose
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Georgie Burgess, a victim of child abuse, is sent to live in a home for boys, where he learns to replace suspicion with trust and friendship.
11) Bruises
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
While living in Holland, Michael meets Judith, who is frightened, bullied, and beaten by her mother and blames herself for the abuse she is enduring.
12) What comes after
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
When her veterinarian father dies, sixteen-year-old Iris Wight must move from Maine to North Carolina where her Aunt Sue spends Iris's small inheritance while abusing her physically and emotionally, but the hardest to take is her mistreatment of the farm animals.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 117
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Claudia realizes that the children she is baby-sitting are in serious trouble when their father's temper gets out of hand.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
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.
17) Forged by fire
Author
Series
Hazelwood High trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
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...
19) Nowhere special
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Twelve-year-old Stan and Elpidia find hope in an unexpected friendship as they navigate challenging family circumstances and a dangerous local gang in the desolate Southern California desert.
20) Racing the past
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After the death of his abusive father, eleven-year-old Ricky tries to help his younger brother deal with his residual fears and discovers that running helps him deal with his own anger and the taunts of a bullying classmate.