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42) Ordinary Girls
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
For siblings as different as Plum and Ginny, getting on each other's nerves is par for the course. But when the family's finances hit a snag, sending chaos through the house in a way only characters from a Jane Austen novel could understand, a distance grows between them like never before. Plum, a self-described social outcast, finally has something in her life that doesn't revolve around her dramatic older sister. But what if coming into her own...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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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...
44) The cousins
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
After receiving an invitation to spend the summer with their estranged grandmother, the Story cousins arrive at her house only to discover that she is not there, and the longer they stay on the island, the more they realize their mysterious family history has some deadly secrets.
45) Unbecoming
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
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Description
Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
"Overachiever Luz 'Lulu' Zavala has straight As, perfect attendance, and a solid ten-year plan ... Middle sister Milagro wants nothing to do with college or a nerdy class field trip ... On a journey from Baltimore all the way to San Francisco, Lulu and Milagro will become begrudging partners as they unpack weighty family expectations ... and maybe even discover the true meaning of sisterhood"--
49) Beetle Boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
Terrible memories resurface when Charlie's girlfriend asks questions about his childhood.
Author
Series
Because you'll never meet me volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Formats
Description
Ollie, who has seizures when near electricity, lives in a backwoods cabin with his mother and rarely sees other people, and Moritz, born with no eyes and a heart defect that requires a pacemaker, is bullied at his high school, but when a physician who knows both suggests they begin corresponding, they form a strong bond that may get them through dark times.
51) Hero-type
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Feeling awkward and ugly is one of several reasons sixteen-year-old Kevin is uncomfortable with the publicity about his act of accidental heroism, but when a reporter photographs him apparently being unpatriotic, he speaks out and encourages people to think about what the symbols of freedom really mean.
53) Love is the drug
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
840L
Formats
Description
Emily Bird is an African American high school senior in Washington D.C., member of a privileged medical family, on the verge of college and the edge of the drug culture, and not really sure which way she will go--then one day she wakes up in the hospital with no memory of what happened.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
When a series of chance events leaves him in possession of an urn with ashes, sixteen-year-old Londoner, Lucas Swain, becomes convinced that its occupant, Violet Park, is communicating with him, initiating a voyage of self-discovery that forces him to finally confront the events surrounding his father's sudden disappearance.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.
56) Starfish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
Kiko Himura yearns to escape the toxic relationship with her mother by getting into her dream art school, but when things do not work out as she hoped Kiko jumps at the opportunity to tour art schools with her childhood friend, learning life-changing truths about herself and her past along the way.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Carson Speier is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years--but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives.
Author
Series
Rules for Disappearing volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
High school student "Meg" has changed identities so often that she hardly knows who she is anymore, and her family is falling apart, but she knows that two of the rules of witness protection are be forgettable and do not make friends--but in her new home in Louisiana a boy named Ethan is making that difficult.
60) Tokyo ever after
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
After learning that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, Izumi travels to Tokyo, where she discovers that Japanese imperial life--complete with designer clothes, court intrigue, paparazzi scandals, and a forbidden romance with her handsome but stoic bodyguard--is a tough fit for the outspoken and irreverent eighteen-year-old from northern California.
It isn't easy being Japanese American in a small, mostly white, northern California town, being...
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