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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
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Tow-Kaye just learned that the love of his life is pregnant--and though he knows what the right thing to do is, he's scared to death to do it. Jeffrey hates having a mom who dresses like a teenager, but when another sexy mom moves in next door--well, that's a different kind of problem. In these and twenty-two other short stories and poems, readers plumb the inner lives of African American teenage boys.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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.
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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.
6) In the woods
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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Description
When Cameron discovers a baby abandoned in the woods, he tries to discover whether his sister is the mother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
640L
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Kendall, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, lives with her parents on a potato farm in a tiny community in Montana, where two teenagers go missing within months of each other, with no explanation.
10) Endangered
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Series
Ape quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
900L
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Description
Sophie is not happy to be back in the Congo for the summer, but when she rescues an abused baby bonobo she becomes more involved in her mother's sanctuary--and when fighting breaks out and the sanctuary is attacked, it is up to Sophie to rescue the apes and somehow survive in the jungle.
11) Dope sick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Seeing no way out of his difficult life in Harlem, seventeen-year-old Jeremy "Lil J" Dance flees into a house after a drug deal goes awry and meets a weird man who shows different turning points in Lil J's life when he could have made better choices.
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