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Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
Dark · Addictive · Twisty · Chilling · Domestic Suspense
“Lapena is a master of manipulation.” —USA Today
The new unputdownable novel from the “queen of the one-sit read,” and New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door
Nothing ever happens in sleepy little Fairhill, Vermont. But this...
Dark · Addictive · Twisty · Chilling · Domestic Suspense
“Lapena is a master of manipulation.” —USA Today
The new unputdownable novel from the “queen of the one-sit read,” and New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door
Nothing ever happens in sleepy little Fairhill, Vermont. But this...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Still convinced that her alcoholic father played a key role in the nuclear meltdown that forced thousands from Vermont's Northeast Kingdom and sent her into hiding, homeless 16-year-old Emily Shepard abandons her classmates to forge her own life, adopting an identity that favorite poet Emily Dickinson would be proud of as she vows to protect a homeless boy at any cost. But Emily's past is patient, and she cannot run forever...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"Alice Metcalf was a devoted mother, loving wife, and accomplished scientist who studied grief among elephants. Yet it's been a decade since she disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind her small daughter, husband, and the animals to which she devoted her life. All signs point to abandonment . . . or worse. Still Jenna--now thirteen years old and truly orphaned by a father maddened by grief--steadfastly refuses to believe in her...
5) Red queen
Author
Series
The red queen volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In a world divided by blood--those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities--seventeen-year-old Mare, a Red, discovers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. But Mare risks everything and uses her new position to help the Scarlet Guard --a growing Red rebellion--even...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
8) Everlife
Author
Series
Everlife volume 3
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Tenley "Ten" Lockwood knows the fate of the Everlife rests on her ability to unite the realms and destroy the Prince of Ravens. When betrayal leads to defeat and Ten finds herself bonded to the enemy, an unthinkable choice may be the only answer.
9) Plain truth
Author
Publisher
Pocket/Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Philadelphia defense attorney Ellie Hathaway, unsatisfied with the course of her career and personal life, leaves her job for an open-ended stay at her great-aunt's home in Paradise, Pennsylvania, arriving just in time to become embroiled in the case of a young, unmarried Amish woman accused of killing her newborn baby.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Born with bird wings, Ava Lavender is well aware that love has long made fools of her family. When pious Nathaniel Sorrows mistakes her bird wings for angel wings, 16-year-old Ava faces the man's growing obsession, which comes to a head with the rain and feathers that fly through the air during a nighttime summer solstice celebration.
11) Rogue lawyer
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"On the right side of the law. Sort of. Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse...
Author
Series
Whispers on the moors volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When the master of Rosemere School returns to protect his birthright, putting Patience Creighton's job as headmistress in jeopardy, Patience must seek God's plans for her future--especially when the master's past is brought to light.
14) The lesson
Author
Series
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The impulsive M.K. Lapp discovers more than she bargains for when she sets out to uncover the truth about a handsome newcomer to the Amish community of Stoney Ridge.
15) Ruby Lee & Me
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When a formerly segregated North Carolina town hires its first African-American teacher in 1969, two girls--one black, one white--confront the prejudice that challenges their friendship.
Author
Publisher
Back Bay/Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Brutally raped and murdered by a deceptively mild-mannered neighbor, Susie begins with a compelling description of her death. During the next ten years, she watches over her family and friends as they struggle to cope with her murder. She observes their disintegrating lives with compassion and occasionally attempts, sometimes successfully, to communicate her love to them. Although the lives of all who knew her well are shaped by her tragic death,...
17) Adorkable
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Adorkable (ah-dor-kuh-bul): Descriptive term meaning to be equal parts dorky and adorable. For reference, see Sally Spitz. Seventeen-year-old Sally Spitz is done with dating. Or at least, she's done with the horrible blind dates/hookups/sneak attacks her matchmaking bestie, Hooker, sets her up on. There's only so much one geek girl and Gryffindor supporter can take. Her solution: she needs a fake boyfriend. And fast. Enter Becks, soccer phenom, all-around-hottie,...
18) After Anna
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Nobody cuts deeper than family... Noah Alderman, a doctor and a widower, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie, and for the first time in a long time he and his son are happy. But their lives are turned upside down when Maggie's daughter Anna moves in with them. Anna is a gorgeous seventeen-year-old who balks at living under their rules though Maggie, ecstatic to have her daughter back, ignores the red flags that hint at the trouble that is brewing....
19) The tender years
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House/Literary Express
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A girl on the Prairies is torn between loyalty to her parents and to a friend. Virginia is very much taken by adventurous Jenny, but her parents consider Jenny a bad influence and wish she would end the friendship. Virginia keeps stalling and is dragged into trouble by Jenny.
20) I'll be the one
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Skye Shin has heard it all. Fat girls shouldn't dance. Wear bright colors. Shouldn't call attention to themselves. But Skye dreams of joining the glittering world of K-Pop, and to do that, she's about to break all the rules that society, the media, and even her own mother, have set for girls like her. She'll challenge thousands of other performers in an internationally televised competition looking for the next K-pop star, and she'll do it better...