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Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2008, c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Overweight and shy, Janet keeps to herself at school until Lola arrives and decides they will be friends, but Janet is afraid Lola is just teasing her, as others do, when she reaches the spot where they are to meet for a sleepover and weird things start to happen.
4) Losing it
Author
Publisher
Amazon Children's Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Bennett Robinson loves baseball, especially watching Dodgers games with his dad while munching on burgers and fries. Baseball even helped Bennett and his dad cope with his mom's death from cancer. But on one perfect, baseball-watching day when Bennett's overweight dad is taken away on a stretcher, Bennett has to move in with know-it-all Aunt Laura. She's making it her personal mission to Get Bennett Healthy--and take over his life.
5) The bridge
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Aaron and Tillie do not know each other, but they both feel suicidal and arrive at the George Washington Bridge at the same time, intending to jump. Includes resources about suicide prevention and suicide prevention for LGBTQIA+ youth.
Aaron is a gay misfit struggling with depression and loneliness. Tillie isn't sure what her problem is, only that she will never be good enough. They arrive at the George Washington Bridge at the same time. There are...
6) Dear Opl
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
There are three things Opl never expected to do during the eighth grade. 1. Start a vendetta against celebrity chef Alfie Adam, the "Nude Food Dude" 2. Take yoga classes with her grandpa 3 .Become a famous blogger But after a year of shrinking down her personality to compensate for the fact that her body's getting bigger, Opl thinks it's about time to start speaking up again. What she doesn't expect is that everyone actually starts to listen...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Aven is a perky, hilarious, and inspiring protagonist whose attitude and humor will linger even after the last page has turned." -School Library Journal (Starred review)
Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Just Your Average Teenage Mer-Girl The only thing that terrifies Jade more than the ocean is dancing at the Fall Formal. Because Jade has two left feet--er, flippers. Who knew being a high school freshman is even more awkward than being a plus-size aqua-phobic mer-girl? At least her only drama is of the human variety... Or not. The Mermish Council has just declared that all land-dwelling mers but return to the ocean. Pronto. But there's no way Jade...
10) Hairspray
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In 1962 a girl dances her way to a local television music show's top spot, but the jealous reigning princess won't stand for it.
11) Dear Sweet Pea
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The first middle grade novel from Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin' (now a popular Netflix film), is a funny, heartwarming story perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead, Ali Benjamin, and Holly Goldberg Sloan.
Patricia "Sweet Pea" DiMarco wasn't sure what to expect when her parents announced they were getting a divorce. She never could have imagined that they would have the "brilliant" idea of living in nearly identical houses...
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