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81) The last song
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains alienated from her parents, particularly her father-- until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she and her brother spent the summer with him"--Jacket.
82) Strange highways
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Two novels, plus novellas and short stories. In Chase, a killer stalks couples in a lovers' lane, in Down in the Darkness, a Vietnam War veteran revenges himself on the man who tortured him, while The Night of the Storm is on a world ruled by robots.
You are about to travel along the strange highways of human experience: the adventures and terrors and failures and triumphs that we know as we make our way from birth to death, along the routes that...
84) Love & gelato
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
"After her mother dies, Lina travels to Italy where she discovers her mothers's journal and sets off on an adventure to unearth her mother's secrets"--
85) Beyond repair
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
HL 480L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his father's death, Cameron realizes the man responsible seems to be stalking his family.
Author
Series
The Sutherland volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After the tragic death of her mother and a long period of isolation under the thumb of a cruel grandfather, young Caroline Brady has little to hope for in her life in the foreboding Southerland mansion. Her only companion, her enigmatic cousin, Simon, may be a wolf in sheep's clothing and is not to be trusted. But when Caroline's estranged father suddenly resurfaces with news of a new wife and stepchildren in Hawaii that she'll finally be allowed...
87) Rabbit cake
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Twelve-year-old Elvis Babbitt has a head for the facts: she knows science proves yellow is the happiest color, she knows a healthy male giraffe weighs about 3,000 pounds, and she knows that the naked mole rat is the longest living rodent. She knows she should plan to grieve her mother, who has recently drowned while sleepwalking, for exactly eighteen months. But there are things Elvis doesn't yet know--like how to keep her sister Lizzie from poisoning...
Author
Language
English
Description
On the night of her high school graduation, Richelle Bach's father gives her and her identical twin sister, Michelle, matching opal necklaces. "These opals look identical," he tells them, "but the fire inside each is completely unique--just like the two of you." Indeed, the two sisters couldn't be more different, and their paths diverge as they embark on adulthood. Years pass, until--at their father's behest--they both come home for Christmas. What...
89) Bone Jack
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
Ash Tyler hopes to make his psychologically scarred father proud by training for his town's Stag Chase, but when he meets the mysterious Bone Jack, dark energies take root and the world as he knows it is upended.
90) Tinkers
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Overview: An old man lies dying. Propped up in his living room and surrounded by his children and grandchildren, George Washington Crosby drifts in and out of consciousness, back to the wonder and pain of his impoverished childhood in Maine. As the clock repairer's time winds down, his memories intertwine with those of his father, an epileptic, itinerant peddler and his grandfather, a Methodist preacher beset by madness. At once heartbreaking and...
91) Unnatural issue
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Elemental Earth Master Richard Whitestone, devastated by the death of his beloved wife during childbirth, has ignored his daughter for years, until he conceives of a twisted plan to use her body to bring back the spirit of his wife.
92) Silent Joe
Author
Language
English
Description
Rescued from an orphanage by Will Trona, a politician, Joe is swept into the maelstrom of power and intimidation that surrounds his adoptive father, but when Will is murdered and Joe hunts for the killer, he learns of his father's many secrets.
93) Last man out
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Tommy Gallagher, the bravest and toughest football player on the field, faces his biggest battle ever when his father, a Boston firefighter, is fatally injured while rescuing a child.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Right after the sudden death of her mother--her first and most devoted fan--and just before the launch of her high-stakes sophomore album, Greta James falls apart on stage. The footage quickly goes viral and she stops playing, her career suddenly in jeopardy--the kind of jeopardy her father, Conrad, has always predicted. Months later, Greta--still heartbroken and very much adrift--reluctantly agrees to accompany Conrad on the Alaskan cruise her parents...
95) Apeirogon
Author
Language
English
Description
"Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of intractable conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to take to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend. Theirs is a life in which children from both sides of the wall throw stones at one another. But their worlds shift irreparably when ten-year-old old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet meant to quell unruly...
96) Rise to the sun
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Three days. Two girls. One life-changing music festival. Toni is reeling in the wake of the loss of her roadie father and desperate to figure out where her life will go from here -- so she's heading back to the festival that taught her to love music in a last ditch effort to rediscover her passion. Olivia is a hopeless romantic whose heart has just taken a beating (again), and is beginning to believe that someone like her may never find "the one"...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
''I have more privilege than any person in my family. And I'm still screwed." From award-winning author Olivia Wenzel comes a captivating and unsettling literary debut about race, politics, feminism, motherhood, nationality and enduring love. A young woman attends a play about the Berlin Wall coming down and is the only Black person in the audience. She is sitting with her boyfriend by a bathing lake and four neo-Nazis show up. In New York, she witnesses...
98) Nightshade
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
With her half-brother Miles and her husband determined to investigate the circumstances of her father's death, herbalist China Bayles joins in to uncover the truth, but she and McQuaid discover that Miles may be hiding more secrets than he is willing to reveal.
Author
Series
Seven sisters volume 4
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From the breathtaking beaches of Thailand to the barely tamed wilds of colonial Australia, The Pearl Sister is the next captivating story in New York Times bestselling author Lucinda Riley's epic series about two women searching for a place to call home. CeCe D'Apliese has always felt like an outcast. But following the death of her father--the reclusive billionaire affectionately called Pa Salt by the six daughters he adopted from around the globe--she...
100) Pax
Author
Series
Pax volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back"--
Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's house three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should be - with Pax. He strikes out on...
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