Laurie Morrison
1) Up for air
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Learning disabilities make school painful for Annabelle, but a summer of swimming with the high school team is fantastic until a prank goes wrong, spoiling everything.
2) Keeping pace
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English
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Determined to regain her sense of accomplishment after losing her top-class ranking to Jonah, Grace decides to compete against him in a Labor Day half-marathon, but as they train together, she learns valuable lessons about what truly matters.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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A heartfelt novel about a softball-loving girl coming to terms with her parents' humanity after a scandal sends shock waves through her town
Bea's parents think she can accomplish absolutely anything-and she's determined to prove them right. But at the end of seventh grade, on the same day she makes a gutsy play to send her softball team to the league championships and Xander, the boy she likes, makes it clear that he likes her too, a scandal shakes...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A thoughtful middle-grade novel about caring for others and for yourself——and what it truly means to be kind and vulnerable
Thirteen-year-old Ivy Campbell has always been a good kid: She supports her soccer-star brother, bakes with her nana, and puts her friends' needs before her own. So of course, Ivy is 100 percent supportive when her mom decides to be a gestational surrogate, carrying and giving birth to her friends' baby. But when Ivy finds...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Seventh-grader Lauren begins stealing to help children who, like her brother, are on the autism spectrum, and Sierra, in foster care in Lauren's neighborhood, fears she will enable Lauren's lawbreaking. Told half in prose, half in verse.