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61) Flawless Girls
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Soler sisters are infamous in polite society--brazen and rebellious. But their grandmother also knows the standards that two young Latina ladies will be held to, so she secures them coveted places at the Alarie House, a prominent finishing school. Younger sister Isla is back home within a day, but older sister Renata stays. When she returns months later, she's unfailingly pleasant, unnervingly polite, and, Isla discovers, possibly murderous. And...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition,
Physical Desc
337 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Eliza Lin's essay about meeting the love of her life unexpectedly goes viral, her entire life changes overnight. Now she has the approval of her classmates at her new international school in Beijing, a career-launching internship opportunity at her favorite magazine... and a massive secret to keep.
Eliza made her essay up. She's never been in a relationship before, let alone in love. All good writing is lying, right?
Desperate...
64) Dragonfly Girl
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2021].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Kira Adams has discovered a cure for death--and it may just cost her life. Things aren't going well for Kira. At home, she cares for her mother and fends off debt collectors. At school, she's awkward and shy. Plus, she may flunk out if she doesn't stop obsessing about science, her passion and the one thing she's good at... very good at. When she wins a prestigious science contest she draws the attention of the celebrated professor Dr. Gregory Munn...
65) Made Glorious
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rory is an antihero for the ages. Like Shakespeare’s Richard III, she confides in her audience, telling us exactly the lengths she’ll go to to secure the leading role in Bosworth Academy’s senior musical, confessing without shame that she is charming and conniving and brutally ambitious, that we will watch and root for her even as she manipulates and endangers those around her. And we do. Perhaps it’s because we don’t want to believe that...
66) The novice
Author
Series
Summoner volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Fletcher, a blacksmith's apprentice, learns he can summon demons, he travels with his demon to an academy for adepts where he is to train as a Battlemage in the Empire's war against the orcs, but he discovers that all is not as it seems.
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co., LLC, a subsidiary of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
313 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Elliott D'Angelo-Brandt is sick and tired of putting up with it all. Every week, she attends a support group for teen victims of sexual assault, but all they do is talk. Elliott's done with talking. What she wants is justice.
And she has a plan for getting it: a spell book that she found in her late mom's belongings that actually works. Elliott recruits a coven of fellow survivors from the group. She, Madeline, Chloe, and Bea don't have much in common,...
68) The Skin I'm In
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun
Pub. Date
2007, 1998
Edition
Pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
171 pages : Color illustrations ; 21cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about to love who she is and what she looks like.
69) New Moon
Author
Series
Twilight volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her beloved Edward and his family leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob, until he starts changing in terrible ways.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
387 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
For all of Emory's life she's been told who she is. In town she's the rich one--the great-great-granddaughter of the Mill's founder. At school, she's hot Maddie Ward's younger sister. And at home, she's the good one, her stoner older brother Joey's babysitter. Everything was turned on its head when she and Joey were in the car accident that killed Candy MontClaire. The car accident that revealed just how bad Joey's drug habit was.
Four months later,...
71) Midnight Sun
Author
Series
Twilight saga volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 37
Language
English
Description
The story of Bella and Edward from "Twilight" told from Edward's point of view takes on a new and decidedly dark twist. Meeting Bella is both the most unnerving and intriguing event he has experienced in all his years as a vampire. As we learn more fascinating details about Edward's past and the complexity of his inner thoughts, we understand why this is the defining struggle of his life. How can he justify following his heart if it means leading...
72) Twilight
Author
Series
Twilight volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In Gold Coast, Long Island, everything from the expensive downtown shops to the manicured beaches, to the pressed uniforms of Jill Newman and her friends, looks perfect. But as Jill found out three years ago, nothing is as it seems... Freshman year Jill’s best friend, the brilliant, dazzling Shaila Arnold, was killed by her boyfriend. After that dark night on the beach, Graham confessed, the case was closed, and Jill tried to move on... Now, it’s...
74) The Black Kids
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
362 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ophelia Rojas, well known for her rose garden and her dramatic crushes on every boy in sight, begins to question her sexuality and sense of self when she starts to fall for cute, quiet Talia Sanchez in the weeks leading up to their high school prom and graduation.
78) Unexpecting
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A poignant and emotional story about found family, what it means to be a parent, and falling in love.
Benjamin Morrison is about to start his junior year of high school. While his family is challenging, he is pretty content with his life, with his two best friends, and with his role in the robotics club. Until an experiment at science camp has completely unexpected consequences.
Ben is going to be a father, something his mother was not expecting...
79) The Poet X
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, Xiomara Batista has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. She pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers, especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, whom her family can never know about.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
If Effie's being honest with herself, she knows just what she wants.
She wants to enjoy all the firsts and lasts of senior year with her two best friends. She wants to go to college in NYC and major in mass media so she can make sure more disabled people like her get to see themselves represented. She's never been to New York, but she can picture the person she'll be there, far from the Minneapolis neighborhood where she's lived her entire life.
And...