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Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When her aunt gets into a car accident, Anise is forced to leave her friends and surfing behind to spend the summer in Nebraska to help care for her cousins, and by doing so, forms familial bonds and new friendships that challenge her feelings of abandonment by her mother.
When her aunt gets into a car accident, Anise is forced to leave her friends and surfing behind to spend the summer in Nebraska to help care for her cousins. In doing so, she forms...
2) Emma
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
A novel of Regency England which centers upon a self-assured young lady who is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy.
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
4) Panic
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"In the poor town of Carp, New York, a group of teens enters a high-stakes game that involves a series of secretive, possibly deadly challenges throughout the summer, with the winner receiving more than $50,000--enough money to start a new life"--
6) Jo's boys
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Recounts the further adventures, successes, and failures of the numerous young men of Plumfield school. Sequel to "Little Men."
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sara Crewe, young daughter of a wealthy diamond merchant, struggles to keep her dignity after her father loses his fortune and the other girls at Miss Minchin's school begin to treat her differently.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY has more twists to its plot than should be allowed, and is far too complex for reconstruction here. Suffice it to say that in Elinor and Marianne Dashwood we are presented with contrasting qualities of character, the one practical and conventional, the other emotional and sentimental. The outcome turns on these young women mastering their primary characteristics and finding true happiness when in the one sense gives way to sensibility,...
9) Good enough
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A Korean American teenager tries to please her parents by getting into an Ivy League college, but a new guy in school and her love of the violin tempt her in new directions.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Spirited Elizabeth Bennet copes with the suit of the snobbish Mr. Darcy while trying to sort out the romantic entanglements of two of her sisters, sweet and beautiful Jane and scatterbrained Lydia.
11) Truly devious
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she sets a plan to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder's wife and daughter shortly after the school opened.
Ellingham Academy was founded by Albert Ellingham, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"I find it so easy to forget / that Im just a girl who is expected / to live / without thoughts." Opposing slavery in Cuba in the nineteenth century was dangerous. The most daring abolitionists were poets who veiled their work in metaphor. Of these, the boldest was Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, nicknamed Tula. In passionate, accessible verses of her own, Engle evokes the voice of this book-loving feminist and abolitionist who bravely resisted an...
14) Free to fall
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"In a near-future world where everyone is controlled by their smartphones, sixteen-year-old Rory Vaughn suddenly begins listening to the voice within--which kids are taught to ignore--and discovers a terrible plot at the heart of the corporation that makes the devices"--
15) Mechanica
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"A retelling of Cinderella about an indomitable inventor-mechanic who finds her prince but realizes she doesn't want a fairy tale happy ending after all"--
17) Parallel
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Abby Barnes had a plan. The Plan. She'd go to Northwestern, major in journalism, and land a job at a national newspaper, all before she turned twenty-two. But one tiny choice-taking a drama class her senior year of high school-changed all that. Now, on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Abby is stuck on a Hollywood movie set, miles from where she wants to be, wishing she could rewind her life. The next morning, she's in a dorm room at Yale, with...
18) Pink
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Ava does not know who she is or where she belongs, but when she tries out a new personality--and sexual orientation--at a different school, her edgy girlfriend, potential boyfriend, and others are hurt by her lack of honesty.
19) Famous in love
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Paige is discovered in Portland, Oregon, and brought to Hollywood to star in a major motion picture, she finds all of the fame and adulation she had dreamed of but also gets caught in a romantic whirlwind, both on and off screen.
20) For love & honor
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Lady Sabine is harboring a skin blemish, one, that if revealed, could cause her to be branded as a witch, put her life in danger, and damage her chances of making a good marriage. After all, what nobleman would want to marry a woman so flawed? Sir Bennet is returning home to protect his family from an imminent attack by neighboring lords who seek repayment of debts. Without fortune or means to pay those debts, Sir Bennet realizes his only option is...