Robin Friedman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although she longs to be an all-American girl, Roxanne, a timid, Israeli-born thirteen-year-old who idolizes Wonder Woman, begins to see things differently when the supremely confident Liat, also from Israel, moves into the "cursed house" next door and they become friends.
2) Nothing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite his outward image of popular, attractive high-achiever bound for the Ivy League college of his father's dreams, high school senior Parker sees himself as a fat, unattractive failure and finds relief for his overwhelming anxieties in ever-increasing bouts of binging and purging.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the beginning of the Civil War, Lula McLean's family home in Manassas, Virginia, is taken over by the Confederate army and used as its headquarters. Forced to flee by the oncoming Union army, Lula and her family and her favorite rag doll move south to a small village called Appomattox Court House. Then one day in 1865, Lula left her doll behind, and what happened next made history.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co. : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
New Jersey high school senior Reed Walton has never had a girlfriend, but once he gets his braces off, gets contact lenses, and turns into a "hottie, " his two best friends set up a website to remedy the situation.