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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"The story of a teenage girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more"--
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett's son, Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective,...
Author
Series
Austin Family Chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
216 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The life of the Austin family is changed by the arrival of self-centered young Maggy Hamilton, orphaned by the sudden death of her pilot father.
Author
Series
The Hate U Give volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
Author
Series
Chocolate War volume 1
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[1974]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
253 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.
11) Challenger deep
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
As he struggles with schizophrenia, a teenage boy believes he is on a journey to reach the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest place on Earth.
Author
Series
O'Keefe Family volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1984
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While working at a conference in Cyprus, sixteen-year-old Polly tries to come to terms with the emotionally tumultuous events preceding her arrival on the island and her relationships with old and new friends.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Three months ago Lily found her older sister Alice hurting herself. She has been desperately trying to keep things together, for herself and for her family. But now Alice is coming home from her treatment program and it is becoming harder for Lily to ignore her own feelings of anxiety. Micah, a new student at school, was in treatment with Alice and seems determined to get Lily to process not only Alice's experience, but her own. When Lily and Micah...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
189 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town.
15) Intentions
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
263 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After fifteen-year-old Rachel overhears her rabbi committing infidelity, she must come to terms with the fact that adults make mistakes, too--and that she's old enough to be held responsible for her own mistakes.
16) 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"--
17) Rebel Robin
Author
Series
Stranger things volume Book 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The backstory of the Stranger Things's Robin, and her journey of coming into her own personality, interests, and sexuality"--
18) Rumble Fish
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1975]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
122 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A junior high school boy idolizes his older brother, the coolest, toughest guy in the neighborhood, and wants to be just like him.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
What if finding her means losing himself? Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he can travel through time. When he was ten, Bo claimed to have witnessed the Titanic hit an iceberg, and at fifteen, he found himself on a Civil War battlefield, horrified by the bodies surrounding him. So when his concerned parents send him to a school for troubled youth, Bo assumes he knows the truth: that he's actually attending Berkshire Academy, a school...
20) Five feet apart
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tella Grant likes to be in control--even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions. The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn't...