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1) Hatchet
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
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How far will a father go to get back his only daughter? And how will he survive in a legal system that crushes those who can't afford to fight back?Mark Gillen has the storybook life other men dream of, complete with a beautiful wife and an adoring five-year-old daughter. Then his wife announces she's leaving him. And taking their daughter with her. The other man is a famous film director with unlimited funds and the keys to stardom and wealth for...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.
8) Pivot point
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Pivot point volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
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"A girl with the power to search alternate futures lives out six weeks of two different lives in alternating chapters. Both futures hold the potential for love and loss, and ultimately she is forced to choose which fate she is willing to live through"--
11) The Landry News
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
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A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 12
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Bound for the Riviera, detective Hercule Poirot has boarded Le Train Bleu, an elegant, leisurely means of travel, free of intrigue. Then he meets Ruth Kettering. The American heiress - bailing out of a doomed marriage - is en route to reconcile with her former lover. But by morning, her private affairs are made public when she is found murdered in her luxury compartment. The rumour of a strange man loitering in the victim's shadow is all Poirot has...
15) Stand tall
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
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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.
16) Night hoops
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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While trying to prove that he is good enough to on his high school's varsity basketball team, Nick must also deal with his parents' divorce and erractic behavior of a troubled classmate who lives across the street.
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Love was a four-letter word, and trust was an even worse five-letter word that Joy Marshall had no patience for. Young, beautiful and a successful attorney, Joy is any man's dream, but since her life became a nightmare after her father divorced her mother, she wants nothing to do with the heartache that love can bring.
Lance Bryant isn't fooled by Joy's cold-hearted exterior. He knew she was the one for him at first sight and would stop at nothing...
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A love that out lasts the test of time...
Handsome and successful, Dontae Marshall had it all. Especially since he'd found the woman of his dreams and proposed marriage to her, with one stipulation -- a stipulation that caused Jewel to hand the ring right back. Add to that the fact that his father is out of prison and he now has to face his feelings for the man who left him in his greatest hour of need. And if all of that wasn't enough, his long-held...
19) Dear Mr. Henshaw
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.
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Amber Brown volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Entering fourth grade, Amber faces some changes in her life as her best friend moves away and her parents divorce.
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