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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
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
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.
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.
12) 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.
13) 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"--
14) 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"--
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...
16) 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.
17) 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
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Bad things don't happen to popular girls like Lizzie Lovett-- until her disappearance became the one fascinating mystery the sleepy town of Griffin Mills has ever had. Hawthorn is convinced she'll turn up at any moment, and comes up with her own theory for Lizzie's disappearance. A theory way too absurd to take seriously... at first. She decides to immerse herself in Lizzie's life, getting a job at the diner where Lizzie worked and hanging out with...
19) 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.
Author
Series
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This volume 1
Publisher
Puffin Books/Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2010, c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
114 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Marie, the only black girl in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white classmate, Lena, discovers that Lena's father is doing horrible things to her in private.