Karen Rivers
1) Love, Ish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Mischa "Ish" Love's longtime dream has been to someday live on Mars, but when she collapses on the first day of seventh grade, Ish receives a diagnosis which threatens her future plans.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Natalia Rose Baleine Gallagher dreams of seeing whales on the beach near her new home, and is consumed with the prospect that her mother who abandoned her as a child loves and misses her, and wants Nat to find her.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"After Sharkey's best friend commits suicide (or was it an accident?) in front of him, he spends the summer processing his grief on an abandoned beach resort island where his dad is the caretaker"--
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When you move somewhere new, you get to be someone new. I was ready.
Sixth-grader Kammie Summers's plan to be one of the popular girls at school hasn't gone the way she hoped. She's fallen into a well during a (fake) initiation into the Girls' club. Now she's trapped in the dark, counting the hours, hoping to be rescued. (The Girls have gone for help, haven't they?)
As the hours go by, Kammie's real-life trouble mixes with memories of the...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Through e-mails, letters, blog entries, and movie scripts, twelve-year-old Ruth, an American girl, and Ruby, an English one, discover that they are long-lost twins
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Told from two viewpoints, Kit has an odd, stress-induced reaction when she witnesses her best friend's public humiliation, and the secrets both girls keep may tear them apart.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Connected by experiences only they understand, teens Hattie and Presley fall into a whirlwind romance, but when the unrelenting trauma that haunts them jeopardizes their relationship, they must find a way to overcome their losses without losing each other.