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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Devastated when her parents are killed in a car accident, sixteen-year old Jackie moves from New York City to Colorado to live with her mother's best friend, who has twelve children, including two boys who start to show an interest in Jackie that goes beyond brotherly.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
"Since her twin brother, Eddie, drowned five years ago, sixteen-year-old Elsie Main has tried to remember what really happened that fateful day on the beach. When cute, mysterious Tay introduces Elsie to the world of freediving, she vows to find the answers she seeks at the bottom of the sea." --
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
During her cross-country adventures following the tragic death of her family, Leila touches the lives of four strangers -- Hudson, Bree, Elliot, and Sonia. While forever changing the lives of these four, Leila also discovers an important truth about herself.
A love-seeking mechanic, a dramatic petty thief, a disappointed planner, and a broken-hearted teen all find their lives transformed as each shares whirlwind adventures with a girl in an insanely...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley, " with a new stepfamily but no new friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
While on vacation in California, sixteen-year-old best friends Anna and Frankie conspire to find a boy for Anna's first kiss, but Anna harbors a painful secret that threatens their lighthearted plan and their friendship.
Author
Publisher
Farra Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
When Laurel starts writing letters to dead people for a school assignment, she begins to spill about her sister's mysterious death, her mother's departure from the family, her new friends, and her first love.
10) I was here
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
In an attempt to understand why her best friend committed suicide, eighteen-year-old Cody Reynolds retraces her dead friend's footsteps and makes some startling discoveries.
11) Revolution
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 17
Formats
Description
An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.
12) Smoke
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
After the death of her abusive father and loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn runs away, desperately seeking peace, as her younger sister, a sophomore in high school, also tries to put the pieces of her life back together.
13) Rumble
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Eighteen-year-old Matt's atheism is tested when, after a horrific accident of his own making that plunges him into a dark, quiet place, he hears a voice that calls everything he has ever disbelieved into question.
14) Boys like you
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When Monroe Blackwell, who is spending the summer at her grandmother's Louisiana bed-and-breakfast, meets Nathan Everets, who has a court-appointed job there, they share, and begin to recover from, their respective feelings of loss and guilt.
15) Hotel Ruby
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
On the way to spend a summer with her grandmother after the sudden death of her mother, seventeen-year-old Audrey, her older brother Daniel, and their father happen upon the Hotel Ruby, a luxurious place filled with unusual guests and little chance of ever leaving.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
Carver Briggs never thought a simple text would cause a fatal crash, killing his three best friends, Mars, Eli, and Blake. Carver can't stop blaming himself for the accident, and a judge is pressuring the district attorney to open up a criminal investigation. Eli's girlfriend, Carver's therapist, and Blake's grandmother ask Carver to spend a "goodbye day" with them to share their memories and say a proper farewell. As other families ask for their...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Maddie O'Neill Levine and her zany family accompany their terminally ill matriarch on her 'death with dignity' cruise, where Maddie falls in love, makes new friends, and struggles to find the strength to let go of her beloved Gram"--
19) The window
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
After her twin sister Anna falls to her death while sneaking out her bedroom window, high school sophomore Jess tries to learn everything she can about the sister she thought she knew and soon discovers that her twin kept many dark secrets.
Anna is outgoing and athletic, the opposite of her twin sister Jess. The same on the outside, so completely different inside-- yet they tell each other everything. Or so Jess thought. After Anna falls to her death...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Description
After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.
Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: when her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. When she travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time, Leigh is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds...
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