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41) Dress Coded
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An eighth grader starts a podcast to protest the unfair dress code enforcement at her middle school and sparks a rebellion"--
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
xv, 323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more.
Author
Publisher
Imprint, a part of Macmillan Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In journal entries alternating between two timelines--before and after a tragic accident--Jennie Englund's heartfelt coming-of-age story, Taylor Before and After follows the year that changes one girl's life forever."--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the two most mismatched seniors at Walt Whitman High School find themselves locked in an aerobics room overnight, their confinement forces them to push past the labels they've assigned each other and they share a night they'll never forget"--
45) Ferris
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a ghost shows up at the threshold to Ferris's grandmother Charisse's room, Ferris worries that she's there to take Charisse to the Great Beyond. But Charisse says that the ghost has something else in mind--something unpredictable, a task that's impractical and illuminating. But how can Ferris focus on completing an assignment for a ghost when her little sister is terrorizing the town, her uncle keeps sending her to spy on her aunt, and the house...
46) Willow
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
329 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Willow, who was driving the car that killed both of her parents, copes with the pain and guilt by cutting herself, until she meets a smart and sensitive boy who is determined to help her stop.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Putting up a front and hiding her mental illness from her classmates is going to be the hardest thing high schooler Natalie Cordova has ever done. It's her senior year, and she's just been selected to present her artwork at a prestigious show. With the stress of performing on her shoulders, it doesn't help when Natalie notices a boy who makes her heart leap. And then there's fellow student Ella, who confronts Natalie about her summer car "accident"...
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,...
50) The Summer of Us
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told from two viewpoints, Rae, Aubrey, Clara, Jonah, and Gabe travel through Europe by train for ten days, working through their relationships just before setting off in different directions for college.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old blind teen Will Porter undergoes an experimental surgery that enables him to see for the first time, all while navigating a new school, new friends, and a crush"--
52) Twisted
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
250 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Julia's best friend is her diary. She calls it "My Everything" -- twelve-years-old at its beginning and fifteen at the end; a girl at the beginning, a young woman at its end, knowing more than she ever wanted to know. Julia tells her diary everything about growing up in Juarez. At first, her family loses their house and their car, then suddenly her father is making lots of money. The family has a new car and a new house. It doesn't make sense. Her...
54) The Sky Blues
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
325 pages : 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sky, openly gay but under the radar, decides to make a splashy Promposal but his plans are leaked by an anonymous, homophobic hacker, moving his classmates to help him expose the perpetrator.
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.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the sister who delighted their parents by her faithful embrace of Mexican culture dies in a tragic accident, Julia, who longs to go to college and move into a home of her own, discovers from mutual friends that her sister may not have been as perfect as believed.
Author
Series
Darius the Great volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Inspired loosely by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, teenaged Violet is shipped off to Maine after her brother's hospitalization, where she searches for the lost shipwreck that her great-great grandmother survived and for answers about her family's long struggle with mental illness, all while falling in love.
59) The Prettiest
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a list appears online ranking the top fifty prettiest girls in the eighth grade, everything turns upside down. Eve Hoffman, ranked number one, can't ignore how everyone is suddenly talking about her looks. Sophie, the most popular girl in school, feels lower than ever when she's bullied for being ranked number two. Nessa Flores-Brady didn't even make the list, but she doesn't care -- or does she? The three girls ban together to find out who made...
60) Dear Justyce
Author
Series
Dear Martin volume 2
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
266 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Incarcerated teen Quan Banks writes letters to Justyce McCallister, with whom he bonded years before over family issues, about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system.