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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center a women's reproductive health services clinic its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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"Steel Magnolias" meets "The Help" in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom. Laugh-out-loud funny, Hoffman's charming work offers the story of a young girl who loses one mother and finds many others.
For years, 12-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille-the tiara-toting, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire town. But when Camille is hit by a truck and killed, CeeCee...
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Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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Description
When hospitalized for her clinical depression, Whimsy connects with a boy named Faerry, who also suffers from the traumatic loss of a sibling, and together they work to unearth buried memories and battle the fantastical physical embodiment of their depression.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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"A brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder--and brings readers through every painful step as she finds her way to the other side--in this powerful and inspiring memoir. Until sophomore year of high school, fifteen-year-old Allison Britz lived a comfortable life in an idyllic town. She was a dedicated student with tons of extracurricular activities, friends, and loving parents at home. But after awakening from...
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Publisher
ReferencePoint Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Todays teens face and are expected to deal with a wide array of personal, social, and other issues involving home-life, school, dating, body image, sexual orientation, major life transitions, and in some cases physical and mental problems, including eating disorders and depression. This volume examines how many teens have learned to cope with and survive these often stressful trials and tribulations of modern youth.
8) Teen suicide
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Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Describes issues surrounding teen suicide, how these issues affect individuals and society, and how they are being addressed"--
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
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January 1988. Martin Pistorius, aged twelve, fell inexplicably sick. First he lost his voice and stopped eating. Then he slept constantly and shunned human contact. Doctors were mystified. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound. Martin's parents were told an unknown degenerative disease left him with the mind of a baby and less than two years to live. Martin was moved to care centers for severely disabled children. The stress and...
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Series
Publisher
BrightPoint Press, an imprint of ReferencePoint Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Looks at the consequences of e-cigarette use on the body, e-cigarettes as a gateway to other drug use, and what withdrawal and treatment looks like for users"--
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Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Daniel Tammet sees numbers as shapes and can perform extraordinary calculations in his head. he can learn new languages to fluency in a week, and in 2004 he memorized and recited more than 22,000digits of pi, setting a record. he has Savant syndrome, but is capable of living an independent life, and has written this extraordinary autobiography.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 30
Description
Fink provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina-- and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients...
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"With acerbic wit ... Shane Burcaw describes the challenges he faces as a twenty-one-year-old with spinal muscular atrophy. From awkward handshakes to having a girlfriend and everything in between, Shane handles his situation with humor and a 'you-only-live-once' perspective on life. While he does talk about everyday issues that are relatable to teens, he also offers an eye-opening perspective on what it is like to have a life-threatening disease"--...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
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Description
"A YA nonfiction story about Ariel and her twin sister's experience living with Crouzon Syndrome"--
At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome, a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive the disease. They endured numerous appearance-altering procedures as they grew up. Surgeons would break the bones in their heads and faces to make...
17) Speak
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless--an outcast--because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When fifteen-year-old Kenna is found cutting herself in the school bathroom, she is sent to a facility for a mandatory psychiatric watch. There Kenna meets other kids like her -- her roommate, Donya, who's there for her fifth time; the birdlike Skylar; and Jag, a boy cute enough to make her forget her problems... for a moment.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
It's 1793, and there's an invisible killer roaming the streets of Philadelphia. The city's residents are fleeing in fear. This killer has a name--yellow fever--but everything else about it is a mystery. Its cause is unknown and there is no cure. This powerful dramatic account by award-winning author Jim Murphy traces the devastating course of the epidemic. An American Plague offers a fascinating glimpse into the conditions in American cities at the...
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