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1) Rotters
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Joey's life takes a very strange turn when his mother's tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he's never known, and who's the town pariah.
2) Conviction
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"A small-town boy questions everything he holds to be true when his father is accused of murder"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
From age three, McCutcheon Daniels, now sixteen, has been trained in Mixed Martial Arts and must keep winning to feed his five-year-old sister and father, but chance presents an opportunity to get out of the Detroit slums using his brain instead of his fighting skills.
5) Fitz
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Fifteen-year-old Fitz kidnaps the father he has never known, taking him from his St. Paul apartment building at gunpoint, in an attempt to address his bewildering mix of resentment and yearning.
6) Half bad
Author
Series
Half bad trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In modern-day England, where witches live alongside humans, Nathan, son of a White witch and the most powerful Black witch, must escape captivity before his seventeenth birthday and receive the gifts that will determine his future.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Eighteen-year-old Barry competes in a non-sanctioned boxing match in hopes of helping his recently-widowed mother, unaware that his best friend and manager, Alby, has his own desperate need for a share of the purse that may put their friendship on the line.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad, " but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist."
9) Gym candy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Groomed by his father to be a star player, football is the only thing that has ever really mattered to Mick Johnson, who works hard for a spot on the varsity team his freshman year, then tries to hold onto his edge by using steroids, despite the consequences to his health and social life.
10) What happened
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When Duane is involved in a hit and run accident during a snowstorm, passengers Kyle and his younger brother must face Duane's powerful father, a man whose hatred of their own absent father may lead him to harm the boys.
11) The lying woods
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Owen Foster is pulled from his elite New Orleans boarding school when his father's assets are seized and, back in his small town, begins to piece together his father's past despite mounting danger.
12) 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.
13) Half wild
Author
Series
Half bad trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, seventeen-year-old Nathan has come into his own unique magical Gift, but he is on the run with the Hunters close behind, and they will stop at nothing until they have captured Nathan and destroyed his father.
Author
Publisher
Random House Sprinter Books
Pub. Date
1994, c1972
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
To a thirteen-year-old Vermont farm boy whose father slaughters pigs for a living, maturity comes early as he learns "doing what's got to be done, " especially regarding his pet pig who cannot produce a litter.
15) Game
Author
Series
I hunt killers volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
Formats
Description
After solving a deadly case in the small town of Lobo's Nod, seventeen-year-old Jazz, the son of history's most infamous serial murderer, travels to New York City to help the police track down the Hat-Dog Killer.
Author
Series
I hunt killers trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
Jazz Dent, who has been shot and left to die in New York City, his girlfriend, Connie, who is in the clutches of Jazz's serial killer father, Billy, and his best friend, Howie, who is bleeding to death on the floor of Jazz's own home in tiny Lobo's Nod, must all rise above the horrors their lives have become and find a way to come together in pursuit of Billy.
17) In the same boat
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Sadie Scofield is entered in the Texas River Odyssey, 260 miles of brutal canoeing. For Sadie it is a chance to finally make up for ruining her father's chance of winning the previous year. When her brother Tanner suddenly opts to paddle for a different team, Sadie is left with Cully, a young man who was her best friend years ago. Now she has to spend 265 miles in the same boat with him. It's a chance to sort out her relationship with the boy she...
18) Girl, stolen
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When an impulsive carjacking becomes and accidental kidnapping, Griffin, a high school dropout, finds himself more in sympathy with his wealthy, blind victim, sixteen-year-old Cheyenne, than with his greedy father.
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