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Author
Series
The summer I turned pretty volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer—they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. But one summer,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Perry's parents insist that he take Gobi, their quiet, Lithuanian exchange student, to senior prom but after an incident at the dance he learns that Gobi is actually a trained assassin who needs him as a henchman, behind the wheel of his father's precious Jaguar, on a mission in Manhattan.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Fourteen-year-old Samantha and her mother move to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 after her father is killed in Vietnam, and during the year they spend there Sam encounters both love and hate as she learns about photography from a new friend of her mother's and witnesses the prejudice and violence of the segregationists of the South.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Recounts the events that occur at the end of seventh grade, when a group of friends plan to trick Carlos, an annoying "problem" student who says he is visited by aliens, while they are on a field trip in the mountains of New Hampshire.
7) Okay for now
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends, an abusive father, and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him until he finds an ally in Lil Spicer--a fiery young lady. Together, they find a safe haven in the local library, inspiration in learning about the plates of John James Audubon's birds, and a hilarious adventure on a Broadway stage.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In fifth-century Britain, nine years after the destruction of their home on the island of Shalott brings her to live with her father and brothers in the military encampments of Arthur's army, seventeen-year-old Elaine describes her changing perceptions of war and the people around her as she becomes increasingly involved in the bitter struggle against the invading Saxons.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tanglewood Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
The annual Great Quest announced by the wizard Zyll requires Marcus and other boys of the village who are coming of age to find the Rock of Invanore without knowing what it is or where it can be found, but unless they develop new powers of magic and find strength to survive wild lands and fierce enemies, they will lose their honor and live menial lives of shame.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"The predicted Rapture was faked by Pastor Frick's Church of America and 3,000 Believers are now missing or dead. Seventeen-year-old Vivian Apple and her best friend, Harpreet, are revolutionaries, determined to expose the Church's diabolical power grab...and to locate Viv's missing heartthrob, Peter Ivey"--
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
13) Expiration day
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"It is the year 2049, and humanity is on the brink of extinction. Tania Deeley has always been told that she's a rarity: a human child in a world where most children are sophisticated androids manufactured by Oxted Corporation"--
14) Forever princess
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 10
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Although she has recently completed a 400-page romance novel, Princess Mia, in her last month of high school, has yet to pick a college, find a prom dress, or decide if her boyfriend J. P. is really The One.
15) Long way home
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Forced to live according to her motorcycle club father's strict gender code, 17-year-old Violet takes matters into her own hands to protect her younger brother when their father is killed carrying out gang business, a situation that separates her from the boy she loves and causes her to be targeted by a rival club.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Growing up, Mallory "Mouse" Dodge learned that the best way to survive was to say nothing. After she escaped her terrifying childhood and spent years being homeschooled by loving adoptive parents, she is starting her senior year at a public high school. The first day, she runs into Rider Stark, the friend and protector from her childhood, and Mallory realizes that their bond never really faded. But as Rider's life spirals out of control, Mallory faces...
19) Fangirl
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Being consummate fans of the Simon Snow series helped Cath and her twin sister, Wren, cope as little girls whose mother left them, but now, as they start college but not as roommates, Cath fears she is unready to live without Wren holding her hand--and without her passion for Snow.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Vivian Apple returns home after the alleged 'Rapture' to find her devout parents gone and two mysterious holes in the roof. Vivian never believed in the Rapture, or the uber powerful Church of America. Now that she has been left behind, Vivan's quest for the truth begins"--
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