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1) Roomies
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
While living very different lives on opposite coasts, seventeen-year-old Elizabeth and eighteen-year-old Lauren become acquainted by email the summer before they begin rooming together as freshmen at UC-Berkeley.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
As she turns twelve during the summer of 1953, Penny gains new insights into herself and her family while also learning a secret about her father's death. It's1953 and 11-year-old Penny dreams of a summer of butter pecan ice cream, swimming, and baseball. But nothing's that easy in Penny's family. For starters, she can't go swimming because her mother's afraid she'll catch polio at the pool. To make matters worse, her favorite uncle is living in a...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Toward the end of the disco era, seventeen-year-old Edna refuses to visit her mother, who is in a New York City hospital undergoing cancer treatment, and barely speaks to her father, who finally puts her in psychotherapy, while her crush on an art teacher turns into a full-blown affair.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Although twelve-year-old Cassidy Bean keeps a book of bad things, she did not expect her summer with the Tremont family in rural New Jersey to be one of them--but this year Ursula, a local hoarder, has died under mysterious circumstances, and Cassidy finds that there a great many bad and dangerous things hidden in her house, including, perhaps, her vengeful ghost.
8) Forever
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Michael and Katherine, two high school seniors, are completely involved with each other until they are separated for the summer.
9) Takedown
Author
Series
Winning season volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Seventh-grader Donald, living with his parents in New Jersey, is determined to master wrestling but discovers that to win at the sport he must learn to control his temper.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
At seventeen Simone Thibodeaux is fed up with her over-protective mother's insistance on micro-managing her life, like picking her prom date from a "nice" Haitian immigrant family, and anyway she is determined to attend with Gavin Stackhouse (even if he does not know that yet); so together with her fellow late-bloomer friends Simone comes up with a bucket list of rule-breaking (like cutting classes, and sneaking out of the house)--but soon things...
11) Center field
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Mike lives for baseball and hopes to follow his idol into the major leagues one day, but he is distracted by a new player who might take his place in center field, an ankle injury, problems at home, and a growing awareness that something sinister is happening at school.
12) Pretenders
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Three girls, two guys, five secret journals. The five most popular students at Noble High have secrets to hide; secrets they wrote down in their journals. Now one of their own exposes the private entries... I am leaking these because I'm tired and I know you are too. The success bar is too high and pretending has become the only way to reach it. Instagrams are filtered, Facebook profiles are embellished, photos are shopped, reality TV is scripted,...
Author
Series
Amber Brown volume 9
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Fourth-grader Amber Brown must make some important decisions when her mother and Max move their wedding date up and prepare to buy a house together, while her father makes some bad choices of his own.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A year after Superstorm Sandy, Lucy's life is returning to normal at the New Jersey shore, where she has grown up surfing with her twin brother, crabbing and long-boarding with friends, and working at Surf Taco, but the torch she holds for summer resident Connor, the center of The Big Mistake, still burns.
16) License to spill
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"The second-quarter journal entries of five freshmen at ultra-competitive Noble High detail the students' ongoing quest to become the Phoenix Five--the most outstanding first-year students in the school"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1968, with the Vietnam War raging, thirteen-year-old Lyza inherits a project from her deceased grandfather, who had been using his knowledge of maps and the geography of Lyza's New Jersey hometown to locate the lost treasure of Captain Kidd.
18) Curveball
Author
Series
The contract (Derek Jeter) volume 5
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
While spending the summer with his extended family in New Jersey, Derek finds a team he can play baseball with and earns money to take his best friend to a Yankees game.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
As the summer of 1969 turns to fall in their New Jersey town, twelve-year-old Brody plays football in his first year at junior high while his older brother's protest of the war in Vietnam causes tension with their father.