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Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 49
Description
"The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds...
2) The nix
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 36
Description
"An epic novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and how his search to uncover the secrets of her life leads him to reclaim his own"--
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Millie Price deals with her lovable but introverted dad, her drama club rival, Oliver, and her "Millie Moods," the feelings of intense emotion that threaten to overwhelm, but when an accidentally left-open browser brings Millie to her dad's embarrassingly moody LiveJournal, Millie knows she must find her mom.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Told through letter-writing flashbacks, Cassie is a New Jersey shore teen who over the course of one summer experiences the exhilarating highs of new love, the frightening free-falls of personal demons and family tragedy, and the bumps along the way to forgiveness, acceptance, and self-discovery.
6) Leave me
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"International bestselling author Gayle Forman's trademark humor and insight abound in this masterful adult debut, showing us that sometimes you have to leave home in order to find it again. For every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner, for every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a place where no one needs constant attention--meet Maribeth Klein, a harried working...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 23
Formats
Description
After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life.
8) Prom
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Eighteen-year-old Ash wants nothing to do with senior prom, but when disaster strikes and her desperate friend, Nat, needs her help to get it back on track, Ash's involvement transforms her life.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Nanette O'Hare, a star student and athlete, is given a mysterious out-of-print cult classic novel by her beloved teacher that sparks the rebel within her, but as she befriends the reclusive author and attempts to insert her true self into the world with wild abandon, Nanette learns the hard way that sometimes rebellion comes at a high price.
10) Matched
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
All her life, Cassia has never had a choice. The Society dictates everything: when and how to play, where to work, where to live, what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to Cassia as she turns 17, whom to marry. When she is Matched with her best friend Xander, things couldn't be more perfect. But why did her neighbor Ky's face show up on her match disk as well?
11) Ash
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.
12) Leftovers
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Two teenagers, Blair and Ardith, lose their innocence in more ways than one as they are transformed from happy ninth-graders to high school sophomores determined to secure justice for their families and friends, whatever the cost.
13) American girls
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Fifteen-year-old Anna runs away to Los Angeles where her half-sister takes her in, but after spending days on television and movie sets, she learns LA is not the glamorous escape she imagined.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
After losing his brother, mom, and most of his friends, Aaron Stein is left with his shambolic father alone in their moldering secondhand bookstore, but just when he considers selling the store he meets new people and takes on new challenges, helping him come to terms with what he has lost and who he wants to be.
Author
Publisher
Harperteen
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
News stations across the country are reporting mysterious messages that Earth has been receiving from a planet--Alma--claiming to be its creator. If they're being interpreted correctly, in seven days Alma will hit the kill switch on their "colony" Earth. True or not, for teenagers Jesse Hewitt, Cate Collins, and Adeem Khan, the prospect of this ticking time bomb will change their lives forever. Jesse, who has been dealt one bad blow after another,...
16) Miss Meteor
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
A teen who secretly arrived with the meteor that gave her small hometown its name discovers that she is turning back into stardust and teams up with her best friend in an effort to secure her human existence by entering a local beauty pageant that has always been won by thin, blonde, white girls.
Everyone knows Meteor, New Mexico got its name from the space rock that crashed into the desert nearby. Nobody knows that Lita Perez came with it-- or that...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"'Ada' means first daughter, means oldest girl, means pressure. 'Ada' means you are expected to do a lot of things because the honor of this family rests on your back. When Ada leaves home for her freshman year at a Historically Black College, it's the first time she's ever been so far from her family - and the first time that she's been able to make her own choices and seek her place in this new world. As she stumbles deeper into the world of dance...
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