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2) Amandine
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Her first week at a new school, shy, plain Delia befriends Amandine, not anticipating the dangerous turns their friendship would take.
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2008, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
273 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Matthew recounts his attempts, starting at a young age, to free himself and his sisters from the grip of their emotionally and physically abusive mother.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
331 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A psychotherapist presents three cases of abuse surviviors, with discussions of the treatment that helped each patient to overcome their trauma and make a full recovery.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Meeting on the ledge of their school's bell tower, misfit Theodore Finch and suicidal Violet Markey find acceptance and healing that are overshadowed by Finch's fears about Violet's growing social world.
6) Wake
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Simon Pulse ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
210 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Janie Hannagan has been drawn into other people's dreams for years, but it is not until she befriends an elderly nursing home patient and becomes involved with an enigmatic fellow-student that she discovers her true power.
7) Sketches
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
226 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After running away from home, fifteen-year-old Dana finds friends on the Toronto streets, and, eventually, a way to come to terms with what has happened to her.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
218 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Told from their different points of view, twelve-year-old Shiloh, a troubled foster child, Dream of Night, an abused former racehorse, and Jess, a woman who cares for both, find healing by helping one another through their pain.
9) Speak
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
10) Orbiting Jupiter
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.