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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gang leader's son finds his effort to go straight for the sake of his child challenged by a loved one's brutal murder, in a poignant exploration of Black coming-of-age set seventeen years before the events of the award-winning 'The Hate U Give'"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash consumes everyone's attention.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Alex and Becca have always been best friends. But when Becca does something nearly unforgivable at Alex's dad's funeral, Alex cuts ties with her and focuses on her grieving family. Time passes, and Alex finally decides to forgive Becca. Then she's hit with another shocker: Becca has cancer. It also turns out Becca has a bucket list, one she doesn't know she'll be able to finish now. That's where Alex comes in, along with a mysterious and guarded...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Feeling blocked after moving from Argentina to New Jersey, a sixteen-year-old poet finds herself torn between a cute American boy in her math class and a Greek student who understands the struggles she is facing in an ESL class.
Author
Publisher
North Dakota State University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages : 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew how to be an Indian. Too bad the white world doesn't accept her either. And so begins her quirky habits to gain acceptance. Apple's name, chosen by her Indian mother on her deathbed, has a double meaning: treasured apple of my eye, bit also the negative connotation--a person...
8) 100 days
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A teen girl suffers from progeria, a rare disease that causes her to age rapidly. This is the story of three unlikely friends learning to live life to its fullest before ultimately letting it go"--
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
322 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
What would you do if everyone you loved disappeared? What if it was your fault?
For July Fielding, nothing has been the same since that summer before senior year.
Once, she had Alex, her loyal best friend, the one who always had her back. She had Sydney, who pushed her during every cross-country run and who sometimes seemed to know July better than she knew herself. And she had Sam, who told her she was everything and left her breathless with his...
10) Solitaire
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition,
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
260 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tori Spring is tired of everything. She used to be able to deal with people, mostly because she had to. Now she can barely function in the ridiculousness of a school environment. She's bored. She's frustrated. She's worried about her brother Charlie. And she's not sure what she should do about anything.
She wants the world to leave her alone. But the world has other ideas.
A random Post-it leads Tori on a trail left by someone going by the name...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages : 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a horrifying public rejection by her crush, Ellie Nichols does what any girl would do: she flees the country. To be more precise, she joins her high school’s study abroad trip to England. While most of her classmates are there to take honors courses and pad their college applications, Ellie is on a quest to rebuild her reputation and self-confidence. And nothing is more of a confidence booster than getting a hot British boyfriend. --Amazon...
12) Something Real
Author
Series
Something Real volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since the cancellation of her family's reality television show, seventeen-year-old Bonnie Baker, one of twelve siblings, has tried to live a normal life with real friends and a possible boyfriend, until her mother and the show's producers decide to bring "Baker's Dozen" back on the air.
13) Plan A
Author
Publisher
Labyrinth Road, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ivy can't entirely believe it when the plus sign appears on the test. She didn't even know it was possible from... what happened. But it is, and now she is, and instead of spending the summer working at the local drugstore and swooning over her boyfriend, Lorenzo, suddenly she's planning a cross-country road trip to her grandmother's house on the West Coast, where she can legally obtain and abortion.
Escaping her small Texas town and the judgement...
14) Monster
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
281 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon is on trial for murder. A Harlem drugstore owner was shot and killed in his store, and the word is that Steve served as the lookout.
Guilty or innocent, Steve becomes a pawn in the hands of "the system," cluttered with cynical authority figures and unscrupulous inmates, who will turn in anyone to shorten their own sentences. For the first time, Steve is forced to think about who he is as he faces prison, where he may...
15) Goodbye, Perfect
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eden McKinley knows she can't count on much in this world, but she can depend on Bonnie, her solid, steady, straight-A best friend. So it's a bit of a surprise when Bonnie runs away with the boyfriend Eden knows nothing about five days before the start of their final exams. Especially when the police arrive on her doorstep and Eden finds out that Bonnie's boyfriend is actually their music teacher, Mr. Cohn. Sworn to secrecy and bound by loyalty, only...
Author
Language
English
Description
Evan Taft has plans. Take a gap year in Alaska, make sure his little brother and single mother are taken care of, and continue therapy to process his father's departure. But after his mom's unexpected diagnosis, as Evan's plans being to fade, he hears something: a song no one else can hear, the voice of a mysterious singer...
Shosh Bell has dreams. A high school theater legend, she's headed to performing arts college in LA, a star on the rise. But...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
391 pages : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"There's nothing worse than peaking in high school. Nobody knows that better than Josie Pie. She was kind of a big deal--she dropped out of high school to be a star! But the bigger you are, the harder you fall. And Josie fell. Hard. Ouch. Broadway dream: dead. Meanwhile, her life keeps imploding. Best friend: distant. Boyfriend: busy. Mom: not playing with a full deck? Desperate to escape, Josie gets into reading. Literally. She reads a book and suddenly...
18) The Atlas of Us
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Atlas James has lost her way. But she has one last chance to get her act together: a community-service program rehabbing trails in the western Sierras. The only plus is that the work is so exhausting that Atlas might just be tired enough to forget that this was one of her dad's favorite places in the world. Before cancer stole him from her life, that is.
Using real names is forbidden on the trail. So Atlas becomes Maps, and with her team--Books,...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages : 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kiki Siregar is a fabulous gamer girl with confidence to spare. She can't help but be totally herself... except when she's online.
Her secret? She plays anonymously as a guy to avoid harassment from male players. Even her online best friend--a cinnamon roll of a teen boy who plays under the username Sourdawg--doesn't know her true identity. Which is fine, because Kiki doesn't know his real name either, and it's not like they're...
20) Admission
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An affluent teen who thinks she is headed off to the college of her dreams, must reckon with the truth and possibly her own guilt when her mother is arrested in a college admissions bribery scandal"--