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1) The Presence
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
While visiting her grandmother in California, seventeen-year-old Catherine comes in contact with a mysterious stranger who says he can help her contact a friend who died in a car crash for which Catherine feels responsible.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
When eighteen-year-old Mikey's younger sister claims to have been raped and he seeks to avenge the crime, he meets Ellie, the sister of the accused, and befriends her, complicating the situation considerably for all of them.
5) Without Tess
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lizzie Cohen recalls what it was like growing up with her imaginative but disturbed older sister Tess, and how she is striving to reclaim her own life since Tess died.
Author
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Mathilda (Tilly), fourteen, and Ruth Anne (Roo), sixteen, are sisters and best friends in Connecticut, but when Roo crashes her car while texting she is confined to a hospital bed with "locked-in syndrome, " aware of her surroundings, but apparently comatose--and Tilly must find a way to communicate with her sister, while dealing with her own sense of guilt.
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.
Author
Series
Beasts made of night volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
"Taj has escaped Kos, but Queen Karima will go to any means necessary--including using the most deadly magic--to track him down"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Bus Mercer, shortstop for the Peach Street Mudders, wants desperately to be picked for the county all-star team, but he breaks his parents' rules for riding his new bike, and feelings of guilt affect his game.
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...
11) The goldfish boy
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Emotionally crippled by his obsessive-compulsive disorder, teenager Matthew Corbin rarely leaves his room on a cul-de-sac in London, and he passes the day observing and writing down his neighbors doings from his window--but when a toddler staying next door disappears Matt is the key to solving a mystery and possibly saving a child's life ... if he can manage to expose himself, and his secret guilt to the outside world.
12) Chime
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
After he eats the sin of a royal, Taj, a talented aki, or sin-eater who consumes the guilt of others whose transgressions are exorcised from them by powerful but corrupt Mages, is drawn into a plot to destroy the city, and he must fight to save the princess he loves and his own life.
Taj is a talented aki, or sin-eater, who consumes the guilt of others: the transgressions are exorcised by powerful but corrupt Mages as "sin-beasts." After Taj eats...
14) Presumed guilty
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
©2006
Description
"Dallas Hamilton's perfect world is torn apart when her husband, a rising superstar in the evangelical world, is arrested for the murder of a porn star."--Publisher description.
15) Wintergirls
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
17) Tangles
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1994
Description
When she takes money from her neighbor's wallet in order to buy a kitten, Sophie finds that she cannot live with the guilt.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
The youngest of three siblings, fourteen-year-old Anke feels both relieved and neglected that her father abuses her brother and sister but ignores her, but when she catches him with one of her friends, she finally becomes angry enough to take action.
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