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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school--both teetering on the edge--it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana, and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another"
7) Revolution
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.
8) Lock and key
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Adam not only is trying to understand his OCD, while trying to balance his relationship with his divorced parents, but he's also trying to navigate through the issues that teenagers normally face, namely the perils of young love"--
10) Walking on glass
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A teenage boy recounts, in a free verse journal, his attempts to come to terms with the realities of his mother's near-death coma.
11) Identical
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.
12) Kissing the rain
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Moo Nelson, shy, overweight, and bullied by his classmates, finds his life spinning out of control after he witnesses a car chase and a fight that results in a murder.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
There is a lot going on in his life that thirteen-year-old Tony Miglione does not really understand--like why his parents suddenly have money enough to buy a house on Long Island, why his mother has changed, why his rich friend Joel shoplifts, why he is obsessed with Joel's sixteen-year-old sister, and why he is having terrible stomach pains.
15) Time bomb
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Six students are trapped in their school after a bomb goes off, and must fight to survive while discovering who among them is the bomber"--
Six students are trapped in their school after a bomb. They couldn't be more different, but now they have something in common: survival. When they hear that the bomber is trapped inside the school, the question is: is it one of them?
16) Reality Boy
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An emotionally damaged seventeen-year-old boy in Pennsylvania, who was once an infamous reality television show star, meets a girl from another dysfunctional family, and she helps him out of his angry shell"--
Author
Publisher
Hyperion/DBG
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
High school student Daelyn Rice, who's been bullied throughout her school career and has more than once attempted suicide, again makes plans to kill herself, in spite of the persistent attempts of an unusual boy to draw her out.
18) Boy21
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.
Author
Publisher
Multnomah Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Maya keeps a journal the year following her aunt's death, in which she records her thoughts about her alcoholic and drug-addicted mother and her own feelings of depression, until she decides to give her heart to God.