Paul Griffin
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Ben Coffin tiene apenas doce años y nunca fue bueno para hacerse amigos. Acostumbrado a las casas de crianza hasta que es adoptado, sabe que la gente puede desaparecer de su vida en cualquier momento. Tratando de superar los problemas de bullying en la escuela, prefiere usar su tiempo libre en leer libros de sci-fi, que consigue en la bioblioteca de Coney Island, donde encuentra un perrito abandonado. O, mejor dicho, es encontrado por el adorable...
2) Stay With Me
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Award-winning author Paul Griffin is renowned for his spot-on dialogue and affecting characterization. Stay with Me features the unlikely romance between 15-year-olds CeCe, a sensitive A student, and Mack, a high school dropout. With every moment that passes, CeCe and Mack grow closer as they bond over a rescued dog and share their most intimate secrets. But when Mack makes a terrible mistake, their shared vision of the future begins to crumble.
3) Adrift
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
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"Matt and Mike are best friends, just two working-class guys trying to earn some money in Montauk for the summer. When they meet Driana, JoJo, and Stef, three friends who live a much different life of privilege, Matt and Mike find themselves in a sticky situation where temptation rivals sensibility. Worlds collide when the group ventures out to sea aboard a small boat that Stef sneaks out from her dad's dock. As the waves rise and the fragile vessel...
4) Saving Marty
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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"When Lorenzo adopts a runt piglet destined for auction, an unexpected, life-changing friendship forms"--
5) Skyjacked
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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Five teenagers from the elite Hartwell Academy are on their way back to New York from an end-of-summer camping trip in Idaho when they realize that something has gone wrong; one of them has become violently ill, and their private plane has apparently been hijacked and is headed in the wrong direction--and even if they can somehow break into the cockpit and manage to overpower the hijacker, they have no idea how to fly the plane, much less land it.
Cassie,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results.