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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.
Author
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...
4) Red queen
Author
Series
The red queen volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Appears on list
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
Publisher
Dutton/Plume
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Author of 27 novels, Joyce Carol Oates has won a National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award. She has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Readers around the world marvel at her ability to trace the subtle dynamics at work in the modern American family. Judd is the youngest of the four Mulvaney children--three boys and a girl--who grow up on their parents' lush farm in upstate New York. In his childhood, Judd is swept...
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.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from separate viewpoints, best friends Willa and Flor are tempted by love that would violate the Girl Code when Willa's long-term crush, Zach, breaks up with Flor, who is fighting her own crush on her math tutor.
Author
Series
Embassy row volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
There are many powerful people along Embassy Row who want Grace to block out all her unpretty thoughts. But Grace will not stop until she finds out who killed her mother and make the killer pay.
10) Fiendish
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Clementine DeVore, seventeen, is determined to learn what happened ten years ago that led to her magical imprisonment and problems in her town, but a dangerous attraction to Fisher, the boy who freed her, town politics, and the terrifying Hollow get in the way.
11) Betrayal
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After learning that she is descended from a legendary ghostkeeper, Emma faces terrible forces as she tries to dispel Neos, find her family, and discover a way to be with Bennett without either of them losing their powers.
12) The gilded ones
Author
Series
Deathless volume 1
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the culture of West Africa, a feminist fantasy debut traces the experiences of an intuitive girl who is invited to leave her discriminatory village to join the emperor's army of near-immortal women warriors.
The blood ceremony will determine whether Deka will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs. But on...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When two girls go backpacking deep in the woods of the Pisgah National Forest in the Blue Ridge Mountains, things go very wrong when they cross paths with a serial killer.
Best friends Neena and Josie spent high school as outsiders, but at least they had each other. Now, with college and a two-thousand-mile separation looming on the horizon, they have one last chance to be together: a three-day hike deep into the woods of the Pisgah National Forest....
17) I'll be the one
Author
Series
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...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Judy Lohden is your above-average sixteen-year-old-sarcastic and vulnerable, talented and uncertain, full of big dreams for a big future. With a singing voice that can shake an auditorium, she should be the star of Darcy Academy, the local performing arts high school. So why is a girl this promising hiding out in a seedy motel room on the edge of town?
The fact that the national media is on her trail after a controversy that might bring down the...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sky, a senior in high school, meets Dean Holder, a guy with a promiscuous reputation that rivals her own. From their very first encounter, he terrifies and captivates her. Something about him sparks memories of her deeply troubled past, a time she's tried so hard to bury. Though Sky is determined to stay far away from him, his unwavering pursuit and enigmatic smile break down her defenses and the intensity of the bond between them grows. But the mysterious...
20) Someone to love
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Constantly in the spotlight thanks to her politician father's rising star, Olivia Blakely feels the pressure to be perfect. As the youngest girl in her class, she tries hard to keep up and to seem mature to the older boy she's crushing on, even as she catches his eye. But the need to look good on camera and at school soon grows into an all-consuming struggle with bulimia.