Brittany Pressley
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter's life is determined to shut Kenna out, no matter how hard she works to prove herself. The only person who hasn't closed the door on her completely is Ledger Ward, a local bar owner and one of the...
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Series
American royals volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 20
Description
In an alternate America, princesses Beatrice and Samantha Washington and the two girls wooing their brother, Prince Jefferson, become embroiled in high drama in the most glorious court in the world.
3) Heroine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place she's ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers she's been prescribed can help her get there. The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good. With a new circle of friends--fellow injured athletes, others with just time to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
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The world is not tame. Ashley knows this truth deep in her bones, more at home with trees overhead than a roof. So when she goes hiking in the Smokies with her friends for a night of partying, the falling dark and creaking trees are second nature to her. But people are not tame either. And when Ashley catches her boyfriend with another girl, drunken rage sends her running into the night, stopped only by a nasty fall into a ravine. Morning brings the...
5) Majesty
Author
Series
American royals volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
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Description
In an alternate America, tensions are high as Beatrice prepares to become the country's first queen, while Princess Samantha and Prince Jefferson struggle to decide what their futures might hold.
Power is intoxicating. Like first love, it can leave you breathless. Princess Beatrice was born with it. Princess Samantha was born with less. Some, like Nina Gonzalez, are pulled into it. And a few will claw their way in-- like Daphne Deighton. As America...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"From the moment she first learned to read, literary genius Darcy Wells has spent most of her time living in the worlds of her books. There, she can avoid the crushing reality of her mother's hoarding and pretend her life is simply ordinary. But when a new property manager becomes more active in the upkeep of their apartment complex, the only home Darcy has ever known outside of her books suddenly hangs in the balance. While Darcy is struggling to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
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Shane has been doing college all wrong. Pre-med, stellar grades, and happy parents...sounds ideal -- but Shane's made zero friends, goes home every weekend, and romance...what's that? Her life has been dorm, dining hall, class, repeat. Time's a ticking, and she needs a change -- there's nothing like moving to a new country to really mix things up. Shane signs up for a semester abroad in London. She's going to right all her college mistakes: make friends,...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery! Mindy McGinnis, the acclaimed author of Not a Drop to Drink and In a Handful of Dust, combines murder, madness, and mystery in a beautifully twisted gothic historical thriller perfect for fans of novels such as Asylum and The Diviners as well as television's True Detective and American Horror Story. Grace Mae is already familiar with madness when family secrets and the bulge in her belly send her to an insane...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Ostracized by the elite community of Amontillado, Ohio, after the disappearance of her parents, Tress organizes a Halloween costume party at an abandoned house, where she launches a macabre plan to force a popular former friend to confess what she knows.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
The New York Times Bestseller!
"An absolute page turner, I'm Not Dying with You Tonight is a compelling and powerful novel that is sure to make an impact. " —Angie Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give
An NAACP Image Award Nominee, I'm Not Dying with You Tonight follows two teen girls—one black, one white—who have to confront their own assumptions about racial inequality
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Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
Description
In a novel told in two voices, Veronica and Sawyer become partners for their senior project and soon they are helping each other battle the ghosts that haunt them--her illness causing blinding migraines and his adrenaline addiction.
Veronica sees ghosts-- specifically, her mother's-- thanks to the blinding migraines that consume her whole life. Sawyer is handsome and popular, a state champion swimmer, but this All-American is hiding an adrenaline...
12) The last laugh
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Series
Initial Insult volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
In this conclusion to her book The initial insult, the author provides Edgar Allan Poe-inspired chills and shocking twists.
Tress Montor murdered Felicity Turnado--but she might not have to live with the guilt for long. With an infected arm held together by duct tape, the panther who clawed her open on the loose, and the whole town on the hunt for the lost homecoming queen, the odds are stacked against Tress. As her mind slides deeper into delirium,...
13) Party games
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Rachel Martin accepts an invitation to a birthday party on mysterious Fear Island where one of the party games leads to murder.