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1) Speak
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
690L
Formats
Description
A traumatic event near the end of the summers has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
2) Hate list
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
3) America
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Teenage America, a not-black, not-white, not-anything boy who has spent many years in institutions for disturbed, antisocial behavior, tries to piece his life together.
Author
Series
If I stay volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
800L
Description
It's been three years since the devastating accident . . . three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever.
Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia's home, Adam and Mia revisit...
5) Shooter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting.
6) Boy toy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
After five years of fighting his way past flickers of memory about the teacher who molested him and the incident that brought the crime to light, eighteen-year-old Josh gets help in coping with his molestor's release from prison when he finally tells his best friends the whole truth.
7) Fallout
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
Author
Series
Field party novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
New to the small town of Lawton, Alabama, Maggie Carlton begins to help Lawton High quarterback West Ashby open up about his grief as well as finally beginning to confront her own.
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Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Macy, officially labeled "disturbed" by her school, records her impressions of her rough neighborhood and home life as she tries to rescue her brother from Child Protective Services, win back her overachieving best friend after a fight, and figure out whether to tell her incarcerated father about her mother's cheating.
10) Beetle Boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Terrible memories resurface when Charlie's girlfriend asks questions about his childhood.
11) The last Martin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Martin Boyle struggles to break a family curse after discovering that he has only twelve weeks to live.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After his house burns down, twelve-year-old Wyatt Reaves takes off with his uncle, and the two of them drive from town to town for six years, earning money mostly by fighting, until Wyatt finally confronts his parents one last time.
Author
Series
Way I used to be volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"After fourteen-year-old Eden is raped by her brother's best friend, she knows she'll never be the way she used to be"--
14) The dead I know
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Aaron Rowe's new job at a funeral parlor may be his salvation from sleepwalking, dreams he can not explain and memories he can not recover, but if he does not discover the truth about his hidden past soon, he may fall asleep one night and never wake up.
15) Going under
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Alternating passages that draw on the myths of Persephone and Narcissus juxtapose the differing viewpoints of a teenaged girl and her older brother as she tries to prevent a manipulative psychotherapist from using her journal as material in a book.
16) Claim to fame
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Lindsay, a former child star whose career ended when she developed the ability to hear what anyone, anywhere says about her and apparently suffered a nervous breakdown, comes to see this as an asset when, after her father's death, she learns that she is not alone.
17) Boy21
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.
18) Jellicoe Road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief and guilt in the wake of her sister's recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it's unclear who saves whom. And when they...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
"One cold fall day, high school junior Liz Emerson steers her car into a tree. This haunting and heartbreaking story is told by a surprising and unexpected narrator and unfolds in nonlinear flashbacks even as Liz's friends, foes, and family gather at the hospital and Liz clings to life"--
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