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1) Fire
Author
Series
Graceling realm volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Description
In a kingdom called the Dells, Fire is the last human-shaped monster, with unimaginable beauty and the ability to control the minds of those around her, but even with these gifts she cannot escape the strife that overcomes her world.
2) L.A. Candy
Author
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.
3) Deadline
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos."
Author
Publisher
Graphia
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
A fifteen-year-old "geek" who keeps a list of the high school jocks and others who torment him and pours his energy into creating a great graphic novel, encounters Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps change his outlook on almost everything, including himself.
7) The list
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Every year at Mount Washington High School somebody posts a list of the prettiest and ugliest girls from each grade--this is the story of eight girls, freshman to senior, and how they are affected by the list.
8) Indigo
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When her mother dies, Martha is so unhappy living in the dried-up town of Oak Grove, that she convinces two unusual brothers who long to return to the ocean to run away with her.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
The elegant and compelling novel about a Pakistani man's abandonment of his high-flying life in New York an extraordinary portrait of a divided and yet ultimately indivisible world in America post-9/11.
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. He begins to tell the story of a man named Changez, who is living an immigrant's dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped...
11) Nailed
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2007, 2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
An outcast in a school full of jocks, sixteen-year-old Bret struggles to keep his individuality through his interest in drama and music, while trying to reconnect with his father.
12) What I lost
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When sixteen-year-old Elizabeth is sent to the Wallingfield Psychiatric Facility's Residential Treatment Center, she encounters girls whose problems seem much greater than her own anorexia.
13) Things change
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2006, c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Sixteen-year-old Johanna, one of the best students in her class, develops a passionate attachment for troubled seventeen-year-old Paul and finds her plans for the future changing in unexpected ways.
14) Bone Gap
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying.
15) The sight
Author
Series
Publisher
Firebird
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 23
Description
In Transylvania during the Middle Ages, a pack of wolves sets out on a perilous journey to prevent their enemy from calling upon a legendary evil one that will give her the power to control all animals.
16) 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.
17) Zenn diagram
Author
Publisher
KCP Loft
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"An irresistible novel about math and romance, with a hint of the paranormal. Being a math genius is not exactly a ticket to popularity for seventeen-year-old Eva. Even worse, whenever she touches another person or their belongings, she gets glimpses of their emotions, secrets and insecurities, making her keep her distance from everyone. So when Eva realizes she can touch Zenn, a handsome and soulful artist, without getting visions only "sparks" she...
18) Others see us
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When an accidental dunking in toxic waste gives sixteen-year-old Jared the ability to read minds, he discovers horrifying secrets about family members at the summer reunion.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, and imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
Author
Publisher
Red Deer Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Taylor Jane Simon, a nineteen-year-old girl with Asperger's Syndrome, travels to France to work for the summer, as she struggles to become independent of her controlling mother and meets a new mentor. This volume brings a close to the Wild Orchid trilogy but may also be treated as a stand-alone book.
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