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Author
Publisher
Atria
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
New superiour court judge Alex Cormier is assigned to preside over the case of the alleged Sterling High School shooter. Lawyer Jordan McAffee represents Peter--the boy who, on the day of the shooting, was found in the corner of the gymnasium holding a gun to his head with a shaky hand. Detective Patrick DuCharme has one star witness, but her story keeps changing. And then there's the biggest problem of all--the star witness happens to be Judge Cormier's...
Author
Series
Hopeless volume 3
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Daniel does not believe in love at first sight until he lays eyes on Six, a girl with a quirky personality, but a secret from the past could jeopardize their chance at happily ever after.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this riveting novel from the #1 bestselling author of Something Borrowed and First Comes Love, three very different people must choose between their families and their most deeply held values. . . . An unpredictable page-turner that unfolds in the voices of three superbly distinct characters. --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - A gripping, thought-provoking journey. --Jodi Picoult NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
6) JUST LISTEN
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When armed thugs crash into the house and take them away to a cabin in the woods, babysitter Amy realizes she and little Kendra have become pawns in a dangerous ransom plot and so must find a way for the two of them to escape safely before their captors make their next move.
8) Payback time
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Overweight, somewhat timid Mitch reluctantly agrees to be the sports reporter for the Lincoln High newspaper because he's determined to be a writer, but he senses a real story in Angel, a talented football player who refuses to stand out on the field--or to discuss his past.
9) Before I die
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Cammie Morgan arrives at her friend Macey's five-star hotel for the Democratic National Convention, where Macey's father is about to receive the vice presidential nomination, she thinks she's in for an exciting end to her summer break. But if you're a Gallagher Girl, 'exciting' and 'deadly' are never far apart.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Awkward freshman Will Carter endures many painful moments during his first year of high school before realizing that nothing good comes easily, focus is everything, and the payoff is usually incredible.
13) Someone like you
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Halley's junior year of high school includes the death of her best friend Scarlett's boyfriend, the discovery that Scarlett is pregnant, and Halley's own first serious relationship.
14) Breaking dawn
Author
Series
Publisher
Megan Tingley/Little, Brown, and Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
In the fourth and final book in the #1 bestselling teen vampire Twilight Saga, questions will be answered and the fate of Bella and Edward will be revealed.
15) New moon
Author
Series
Publisher
Megan Tingley/Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.
Author
Publisher
Amulet
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.
Author
Publisher
Clarion
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as...
20) Twisted
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.