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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
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Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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As their lives take them in different directions, Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget discover many more things about themselves and the importance of their relationship with each other. Once upon a time there were four girls. Young women, you might even say. And though their lives traveled in different directions, they loved each other very much. Once upon a time before that, these same girls found a pair of pants, wise and magical, and named them the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media company, Rachel Hollis has created an online fan base by sharing tips for living a better life while fearlessly revealing the messiness of her own. Each chapter begins with a specific lie Hollis once believed that left her feeling overwhelmed, unworthy, or ready to give up. As a working mother, a former foster parent, and a woman who has dealt with insecurities about her body...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
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Tommy's nickname is Lucky, but no one would think this crippled boy was blessed. Cursed with health problems and drawn into trouble more often than not, Tommy is the recipient of pity rather than admiration. He is nothing like his stepbrother Eric. Eric, a Nordic Adonis, is graced by a seemingly endless supply of good fortune-he is charming, a star athlete, and a magnet for anyone in his sphere. Yet in spite of these differences, Eric and Tommy are...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
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When Samantha, the seventeen-year-old daugher of a wealthy, perfectionistic, Republican state senator, falls in love with the boy next door, whose family is large, boisterous, and just making ends meet, she discovers a different way to live, but when her mother is involved in a hit-and-run accident Sam must make some difficult choices.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
During their first summer apart, four teenage girls, best friends since earliest childhood, stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each of their figures and affects their attitudes to their different summer experiences.
8) First love
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.
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Publisher
Zest Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In 1994 Germany, four teenage boys find their normal lives turned upside down when they find a large amount of cash hidden in an abandoned house and opt to spend the money on clothing, food, clubbing, and drugs.
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Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
After their missing friend's body is found and another of their friends commits suicide, four former best friends live in fear of their secrets being exposed by someone who is stalking them via their cell phones.
12) Anger management
Author
Publisher
LifeMatters
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Defines anger and offers strategies for teens to manage both their own anger and their response to others' anger.
Author
Series
Pretty little liars volume 5
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
The stalker's identity has finally been revealed but high school juniors Spencer, Emily, Hanna, and Aria seem condemned to repeat the past as they resume their unrepentant ways.
Author
Series
Pretty little liars volume 6
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Former best friends Emily, Aria, Hanna, and Spencer continue to live in fear as they struggle to keep hidden even more secrets and someone new begins stalking them via their cell phones.
15) Nyxia
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Series
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Emmett accepts an interstellar space contract but learns en route that to win the promised fortune he and nine other recruits face a brutal competition, putting their very humanity at risk.
The number of zeroes on the Babel Corporation's contract has Emmett Atwater boarding their lightship and hoping to return to Earth with enough money to take care of his family-- forever. But it turns out he's one of ten recruits, all of whom have troubled pasts...
16) Winterkill
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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When the revered leader of her settlement, a dark, isolated land with merciless winters and puritanical rulers, asks Emmeline for her hand it is a rare opportunity, but not only does she love another man, she cannot ignore dreams that urge her into the dangerous and forbidden woods that took her grandmother's life and her family's reputation.
17) Long way down
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
There are three rules in the neighborhood: Don't cry ; Don't snitch ; Get revenge. Will takes his dead brother Shawn's gun, and gets in the elevator on the 7th floor. As the elevator stops on each floor, someone connected to Shawn gets on. Someone already dead. Dead by teenage gun violence. And each has something to share with Will.
18) L.A. Candy
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
When nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts is cast in a new reality show, she discovers that the fame and fortune of her new life come at a high price to herself and her friendships.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants graduates from high school and spends their last summer before college learning about life and themselves. The Pants first came to us at the perfect moment. That is, when we were splitting up for the first time. It was two summers ago when they first worked their magic, and last summer when they shook up our lives once again. You see, we don't wear the Pants year-round. We let them rest so they are extra powerful...
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