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1) Golden Arm
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lazarus Weathers, a high school senior from the wrong side of the tracks, seeks to protect his half-brother while pitching his way out of poverty, one strike at a time.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arriving in America, the so-called beautiful country, Anna, a young Taiwanese girl, finds it anything but beautiful as she and her family struggle to make a place for themselves in this world and learn the true meaning of home.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Jadie lives in 4-space and works as an Agent for the four-dimensional beings who adopted her after being abandoned as an infant, but when Jadie learns her origin story is a lie she works to uncover the truth.
4) Runner
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Living with his alcoholic father on a broken-down sailboat on Puget Sound has been hard on seventeen-year-old Chance Taylor, but when his love of running leads to a high-paying job, he quickly learns that the money is not worth the risk.
5) Timekeeper
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bewildered by a new student at her Manhattan high school who does not know her but seems to be Philip Walker, her lost love from her time travels, and threatened by Rebecca, who has held a grudge against her family for 120 years, sixteen-year-old MicheleWindsor seeks help in her father journals and The Handbook of The Time Society.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Every October Cara and her family become mysteriously and dangerously accident-prone, but this year, the year Cara, her ex-stepbrother, and her best friend are 17, is when Cara will begin to unravel the accident season's dark origins"--
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.
8) Broken
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Attending high school for the first time, chronically ill Scarlet, with the help of her new friends, faces down bullies, endures her school-nurse mother's smothering overprotectiveness, and eventually discovers the truth behind her illness--a truth that puts much more than her life at risk.
9) Terminal
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Tory and her comrades must track a new pack of rogue Virals who have brought on the attention of a shadowy government organization intent on learning the secret to their powers"--
10) Revolution
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
It's 1964 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Sunny's town is being invaded by people from up north who are coming to help people register to vote. Her personal life isn't much better, as a new stepmother, brother, and sister are crowding into her life, giving her little room to breathe.--From publisher description.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Avery West learns her family is part of a powerful and dangerous secret society, and that her own life is in danger, she must follow a trail of clues across Europe.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
13) Six feet over it
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Home is where the bodies are buried. Darkly humorous and heart-wrenchingly beautiful, Jennifer Longos YA debut about a girl stuck living in a cemetery will change the way you look at life, death, and love. Leigh sells graves for her family-owned cemetery because her father is too lazy to look farther than the dinner table when searching for employees. Working the literal graveyard shift, she meets two kinds of customers: Pre-Need: They know whats...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Summer for Sasha and Ray means the sprawling old house on Long Island. Since they were children, they've shared almost everything--reading the same books, running down the same sandy footpaths to the beach, eating peaches from the same market, laughing around the same sun-soaked dining table. Even sleeping in the same bed, on the very same worn cotton sheets. But they've never met. Sasha's dad was once married to Ray's mom, and together they had three...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school, but when family secrets come out and racism at school gets worse than ever, she must decide what she believes in and take a stand"--
It's fine that Lilliana's best friend, Jade, is all caught up in her new boyfriend lately. It's fine that her inner-city high school is disorganized and underfunded. It's fine that her father took off again, and she's left with her increasingly...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Victoria escapes an abusive father by joining the VanDrexel Family Circus in 1965, and fifty years later her writings guide her granddaughter, sixteen-year-old Callie, in facing the uncharted waters of public high school.