Joan Bauer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.
2) Stand tall
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Appears on list
Description
Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.
4) Peeled
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In an upstate New York farming community, high school reporter Hildy Biddle investigates a series of strange occurrences at a house rumored to be haunted.
5) Tell me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Feeling scared and powerless when her father's anger escalates and her parents separate, twelve-year-old Anna spends the summer with her grandmother and decides to make a difference when she sees what seems to be a girl held against her will.
6) Thwonk
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
A cupid doll comes to life and offers romantic assistance to A.J., a teenage photographer suffering from unrequited love.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Between school and Al-Anon meetings, Jenna helps Mrs. Gladstone cope with escalating problems that result from the merger of Gladstone Shoes with Shoe Warehouse Corporation, while managing a new employee with a shoplifting record.
8) Almost home
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Newbery Honor winner Joan Bauer's new novel will touch your heartWhen twelve-year-old Sugar's grandfather dies and her gambling father takes off yet again, Sugar and her mother lose their home in Missouri. They head to Chicago for a fresh start, only to discover that fresh starts aren't so easy to come by for the homeless. Nevertheless, Sugar's mother has taught her to be grateful no matter what, so Sugar does her best. With the help of a rescue dog,...
9) Soar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Moving to Hillcrest, Ohio, when his adoptive father accepts a temporary job, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has sixty days to find a baseball team to coach.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father.
11) Raising Lumie
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Newly orphaned and living with the half sister she hardly knows, twelve-year-old Olive rediscovers her hope when she starts training a guide dog puppy.
12) Sticks
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
With the help of his grandmother, his dead father's best friend, and his own best friend, a math genius, ten-year-old Mickey prepares to compete in the most important pool championship of his life, despite his mother's reservations.
13) Backwater
Author
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
While compiling a genealogy of her family of successful attorneys, sixteen-year-old history buff Ivy Breedlove treks into the mountain wilderness to interview a reclusive aunt with whom she identifies and who in turn helps her to truly know herself and her family.
14) Squashed
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
As a sixteen-year-old pursues her two goals--growing the biggest pumpkin in Iowa and losing twenty pounds herself--she strengthens her relationship with her father and meets a young man with interests similar to her own.