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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Looks at a teen's life after the death of his best friend and how he navigates through the guilt and pain by celebrating their lives--and ultimately learning to forgive himself"--
Carver Briggs never thought a simple text would cause a fatal crash, killing his three best friends, Mars, Eli, and Blake. Carver can't stop blaming himself for the accident, and a judge is pressuring the district attorney to open up a criminal investigation. Eli's girlfriend,...
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Series
I funny volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Wheelchair-bound middle school student Jamie Grimm's recent victory in the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic Contest leads to a television sitcom based on his life, but being the star of the show forces him to balance his newfound success with the responsibilities of being a good friend.
343) The deceiver's heart
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Series
Traitor's game volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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Description
Now firmly on the side of the Coracks, sixteen-year-old Kestra Dallisor plans to use the magic Olden Blade to kill the evil Lord Endrick, but when she fails, Endrick turns her into one of his Ironheart soldiers, without any memory of her rebellion, and bound to obey him, his spy within the Coracks; the rebel Simon is desperate to return her to the Kestra he loves, but he is reluctant to use the magic that might heal (or destroy) her--and neither Simon...
344) Golden arm
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
690L
Formats
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Lazarus Weathers, a high school senior from the wrong side of the tracks, seeks to protect his half-brother while pitching his way out of poverty, one strike at a time.
Lazarus "Laz" Weathers has always been shy, and his issue with stuttering when he speaks hasn't helped. Stuck in a Seattle trailer park, Laz finds baseball helps him escape from the world of poverty and drugs. When he gets an opportunity to pitch for the rich kids across town, he...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Description
The son of a Pentecostal preacher faces his personal demons as he and his two outcast friends try to make it through their senior year of high school in rural Forrestville, Tennessee, without letting the small-town culture destroy their creative spirits and sense of self.
They lay for a while on their backs, gazing into the starry expanse through the railroad tracks, listening to the dark river below. This might be it, Dill thought. This might be...
346) The hate u give
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
347) After the Shot Drops
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
730L
Formats
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Told from alternating perspectives, Bunny takes a basketball scholarship to an elite private school to help his family, leaving behind Nasir, his best friend, in their tough Philadelphia neighborhood.
It's stupid we're still not talking because I want something more than what Whitman can offer. Out of everyone, I expected him to get that. Bunny's been feeling the pressure to make the most of his prodigious basketball skills: his mom works the graveyard...
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Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with her newly ex-boyfriend-whose kisses never made her feel desire, only discomfort-and her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago without a word. But when she gets a letter from her biological father--a man she hoped would stay behind bars for the rest of his life-Lou immediately...
349) Calvin: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Born on the day the last Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was published, seventeen-year-old Calvin, a schizophrenic, sees and has conversations with the tiger, Hobbes, and believes that if he can persuade the strip's creator, Bill Watterson, to do one more strip, he will make Calvin well.
350) Let the Storm Break
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Series
Sky fall series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
While teenaged Vane discovers more of what it means to be a windwalker and his guardian sylph Audra struggles with her deepest desires, both must band together to face greater challenges than they have ever known.
352) Pride
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Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially can't stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. Yet as...
353) Anger Is a Gift
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Formats
Description
Moss Jeffries is many things--considerate student, devoted son, loyal friend and affectionate boyfriend, enthusiastic nerd. But sometimes Moss still wishes he could be someone else--someone without panic attacks, someone whose father was still alive, someone who hadn't become a rallying point for a community because of one horrible night. And most of all, he wishes he didn't feel so stuck. Moss can't even escape at school--he and his friends are subject...
354) Nick of time
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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Description
Nick McIver is no ordinary boy, fighting pirates, beating Nazis at their own game, and traveling through time.
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie Lévy of Paris, France, is a girl, but in spite of his initial reluctance, their letters continue over the years and they fight for their friendship even as Charlie endures the Nazi occupation and Alex leaves his family in an internment camp and joins the Army.
356) Ship breaker
Author
Series
Ship breaker volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Ariana Ruiz wants to be noticed. But as an autistic girl who never talks, she goes largely ignored by her peers--despite her bold fashion choices. So when cute, popular Luis starts to pay attention to her, Ari finally feels seen. Luis's attention soon turns to something more, and they have sex at a party--while Ari didn't say no, she definitely didn't say yes. Before she has a chance to process what happened and decide if she even has the right to...
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance."--Title page verso.
"In the remarkable, bizarre, and heart-wrenching summer before Cullen Witter's senior year of high school, he is forced to examine everything he thinks he understands about his small and painfully dull Arkansas...
359) Endymion Spring
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Having reluctantly accompanied his academic mother and pesky younger sister to Oxford, twelve-year-old Blake Winters is at loose ends until he stumbles across an ancient and magical book, secretly brought to England in 1453 by Gutenberg's mute apprentice to save it from evil forces, and which now draws Blake into a dangerous and life-threatening quest.
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